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Monday, October 23, 2006

Tabata here I come!

A friend of mine have been telling me about this certain type of exercising called "tabata". I read some more about it in a coupe of articles, and thought I'd give it a try!
Just to clearify: Tabata is a way of building up your exercise; you work as HARD as you can for 20sec, then rest for 10sec, then repeat this 7 times, which makes the while thing last 4min. (Check THIS out) So Sunday night I went for it!

- I started ut with a warm up, walking fast for 5min, then jogging noramally for 5min. My knee that I bumped into my deks hurt a little.... :S

- Then I moved on to tabata running style, and oh my, my lounges were burning...!! Now, I had to do this inside cause outside is freaking cold and I don't wanna run alone outside at 11pm around here. So I did it a the treadmill, giving me the oppotunity to time it exact, but limiting my running somewhat I think. Ran at a speed of 9.3 at max, and I could definitely have gone faster, but in the end I think it was good i didn't, hoho....

- Stretched a little before moving on to Tabata Burpees, which is THIS exercise. I didn't have a timer for this, so I had to count the oldfashioned way (1001, 1002, 1003 etc). Kind of hard when this was my first time, so breathing, doing the exercise, counting time and keeping track of how many burpees and rounds I had done was kind of hard, haha.
It was hillarious in some ways, as I only managed to do 2 reps the second round, hahahaha. Got better tohugh. I was pretty shaky when I was done - but I need a place with a higher ceiling!

- Did some situps stuff, my 8x6 thing and the "launcher" and some other stuff. I was half dead so didn't think too much about how many reps and stuff, hehe. Tried some new stuff too.

- Ended it all with a nice and easy stretch! It was a good workout as far as I'm concerned, I haven't been that tired in a long time!
Feeling good :D

3 Comments:

  • At 1:06 PM, Blogger Espen Leonhardsen said…

    Way to go girl ;) welcome to the world of the tabata sufferers :p

     
  • At 8:17 AM, Blogger Cysiam said…

    Tabata er en killer.. Trener med Espen og det funker!!

     
  • At 9:21 AM, Blogger Annema said…

    Hehey, se der, tusen takk for kommentarer gutter! :) Og vil påstå selv at tabata funker ja, wohooo! ;)

     

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