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Tabata - How Often?

  • 01-10-2010 8:38am
    #1
    optimistic_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 657 ✭✭✭


    How often do people do this?

    I ask because I did my first one yesterday at the end of a session (think I only hit seven reps and nearly got sick)

    If your goal is increasing overall fitness and stamina while dropping the last %s of body fat, how often should it be done, and how often could it be done safely?

    I ask about frequency because I've read once or twice a week,month etc then the original study was 5 times a week...


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  • #2
    Hanley
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,981 ✭✭✭✭Hanley


    Your body will adapt to it the more frequently you do it. That being said, if you're pushing to the limit each session I'd expect to get sick/injured/unable to train for whatever reason pretty quickly. Especially if you're low kcal'n.


  • #3
    optimistic_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 657 ✭✭✭optimistic_


    Cheers Hanley,

    My thoughts were twice a week at the end of two of my weights sessions ( three weights sessions a week with two or three cardio, cardio days being a mixture of everything from steady state to conditioning exercises) I say two or three cardio sessions as realistically I miss a couple of Saturdays and end up taking the full weekend off

    Would that be too much, should I replace one Tabata with a 10 min+ 1:1.5 HIIT session do you think?


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