Each and every time I come back to doing a tabata (and I generally only make it part way through one of them) I am astounded at the impact my 3 minutes (in this case) can have. I drip sweat and my heart races like with NOTHING else that I have ever found.
My tabata is done just running in place. The 20 second part of each interval is at as high an intensity as I can manage - I give it for all I am worth. Then 10 seconds of slow jogging in place (and I mean slow). The key from my reading on a "real" tabata is that it has to be something extremely high intensity for the 20 seconds. So I don't know how all these other tabata things that are out there work (i.e can you really get very high intensity doing push ups??? Well maybe those other people can but I know that I can not). So for me I will continue to do it with running in place. Although I might use something else just as an interval to round things out and get in a bit more work - because I believe intervals are really awesome even when they aren't a tabata.
Today I haven't really done anything except for some housecleaning. That in itself is a workout if you were ever to see my house ;-p
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