400 Calories in 4 Minutes - WDYT?

400 cals in 4 mins? Not a chance, it's just impossible and unrealistic. Period.

I can EAT 400 calories in about 10 seconds....

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im gonna try a few sets of this later

I've done this workout when I've been too lazy to go to the gym. It gets my heart rate way up, and I usually repeat it 2-3 times with a 2 minute rest between each set. Haven't used an HRM, but taking my pulse and plugging it into a calculator puts me at ~200 calories for 3 sets.

The Journal of Sports Sciences provides a calorie expenditure formula for each gender. Men use the following formula: Calories Burned = [(Age x 0.2017) -- (Weight x 0.09036) + (Heart Rate x 0.6309) -- 55.0969] x Time / 4.184. Women use the following formula: Calories Burned = [(Age x 0.074) -- (Weight x 0.05741) + (Heart Rate x 0.4472) -- 20.4022] x Time / 4.184.

(28x0.2017)= 5.6476- (224x0.09036)=20.24064+(192x0.6309)121.1328-55.0969=51.44264x4=205.77056/4.184=


FOR a whomping total of 49.1803442 calories burned in 4 min at a maximum heart rate of 85% Ya pretty sure its a no.

I downloaded the LWR Workout to my iPhone to try it. I didn't think a 4 min workout would be worth it as I'm usually in the gym every other day and have competed in triathlons so I thought it would be too easy - wrong! The level 3 workouts had me wheezing and sweating like I'd just done a full blown workout to start with.

Whilst I don't believe it's a huge calorie burner on its own, or would substitute other more prolonged forms of exercise, it's certainly a great way to get some fat burning exercise in when time is tight. I do it whilst I'm waiting for dinner to cook or during an ad break

I'm trying to do one a day - 4 minutes is better than nothing however many calories its burning, and who hasn't got time for 4 minutes a day?

Lies.

And not everyone will burn the same amount depending on the intensity the person does it at, their weight, etc.

THIS^^ But what the thing means is that you do it 10 times over!!! Instead of running for 40 minutes...i.e is as good even though you don't "work" the entire time. Tabata protocol is a form of interval training where you work max effort for 20 seconds, rest 10 and repeat. Normally 8 sets of each exercise which will take you 40 minutes per block of 8 (20secs+10secs = 30secs x 8 = 4mins)

Disagree here. If you can go 40 minutes and do that much, the you're doing HIIT training and not Tabata. Tabata is ALL out 100% effort for 4 minutes. In those 4 minutes you should be spent and done. If not, then it wasn't Tabata training.

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I do what I think is Tabata. Its 12 exercises, each for 4minutes(20/10) with a one minute break and then onto the next one. That tabata?

No, that is "Faux-bata"

Actually, it's just interval training, using an arbitrary time scale that you borrowed from something completely unrelated. Which is fine. There is nothing magic about either the 4 min duration or the 20/10 intervals. But there is nothing wrong with them either.

They forgot to include a zero after the four, should be 40 minutes not 4!!

if it's tabata/HIIT style and you really go all out the possibility is out there (maybe it was 130 lb woman, which is the mean for exercises like this), just consider the after burn effect you will have as opposed to doping steady cardio. But 400 in 4 min?...eh....I want to believe they are referring to addition of after burn as well....eh

It's a tabata with rotating exercises. The four minute tabata has been shown to be incredibly effective, especially when paired with and compared to traditional cardio workouts. The number of calories you burn is going to depend on your current weight and level of fitness, as with any workout. To get a real picture of the number of calories you're burning, you'll need to be measuring your progress with something like a heart rate monitor. But forget the number for a moment; the point is that tabatas are a condensed, high-intensity workout with benefits comparable to a traditional, moderate-intensity routine.

More information can be found here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8897392