Do we have a Tabata thread?

I just did 45 minutes of Tabata drills tonight! I hate them while I'm doing them, but I love the calorie burn and the way I feel when I'm done. :-)

I got Amy Dixon's 'Breathless Body' DVD workout. She has eight different drills from jacks to speed skaters to pogo jumps and volleyball blocks (and yes... burpees are in there too)

I love her workout because she offers three options for each drill cycle. You can pick easy, medium or hard, although even the easy option can be pretty hard on some of the drills.

i just read about it today in a magazine and raced home to google it. looks great, and a variation of what i was already doing on the bike. i am going to start it next week, looks hard but effective! esp when time is limited, this will be a good way to get the heart-rate up and obtain a full work-out without taking half my morning.

I am looking to do some tabata after I finish the Ripped in 30 by Jillian Michaels...I am curious though, how are you able to sustain enough energy to do tabata for 45 min? In the past when I tried it, I gave my all for 2 min, and I was done. I still haven't got all the way up to the recommended 4 min for the protocol. (BTW, I was doing jumping jacks)

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I love Tabata!

I do the full 4 minute protocol, but usually only 2-4 sets of them at any given time, never more than 20 minutes. That's about all you can sustain if you are really pushing to your absolute max during each work interval.

I like to mix up the various exercises within my interval, mentally it makes it go faster if you're doing 4 exercises 2 times each rather than 1 exercise 8 times. I also like to throw some jump roping in there, like jump rope high knees or low jacks.