WARNING: Read This Before You Do Another "Tabata" Workout!

"Tabata training" has become very popular in recent years. And for good reason - it's one of the most effective HIIT methods around!

If you're not familiar, let me give you a quick introduction:

In the original study done by Izumi Tabata, Tabata training was defined as "training at the intensity that exhausts subjects during the 7th or 8th sets of 20-s bicycle exercise bouts with a 10-s rest between the exercise bouts."

Put simply, you do eight rounds of 20 seconds of work and 10 seconds of rest.

The ground-breaking part of this study is that the group that ONLY performed the 20 seconds of work / 10 seconds of rest protocol (do the math, that's just a four minute workout!) got as good, or BETTER, improvements in several fitness markers like VO2 max increase, as the group that did a full HOUR of exercise, five days per week!

Again - if you do it right, you can get as good, or perhaps even better, improvements in specific fitness markers like improved VO2 max, in just four minutes vs a full hour.

Here's the big catch. This is quoted from a later meta-analysis study of the tabata protocol::

"At more than 20 years after the publication of the original study [12, 13], the exercise intensity has not been emphasized; only the procedure of the training has been featured, especially among general exercisers.  For example, following such a protocol (eight sets of a 20-s exercise with a 10-s rest between the exercise bouts) using walking as the exercise can be expected to result in no improvement of the VO2max. Only training adopting the protocol with an exercise intensity that exhausts the subject after 7–8 sets of the 20-s exercise bout with a 10-s rest between the exercise bouts (i.e., Tabata training) elevates both the VO2max and the MAOD to the extent that was reported by the original investigation."

TRANSLATION - you need to work at the proper intensity for Tabata training to work. 

A workout where you do twenty seconds on / ten seconds off for a full 45 or 60 minutes might be fun!... but it's NOT Tabata Training. 

You need the right programming and right tools for the job if you want to get results like people did in the study. 

That's where I come in!! :) Because KETTLEBELLS are the perfect tool for the job.

The great thing about kettlebell training is that, IF you do it right, you can get your heart rate up FAST, exert a ton of energy, and use every muscle in your body.

So if we're looking for a type of exercise that is best suited to Tabata Training, kettlebells are hard to beat.

Combining kettlebells plus tabata training, you will get next-level fat loss and total body conditioning results, in a fraction of the time!

And that's exactly what we've done with our upcoming 28-Day Kettlebell Tabata Challenge.

We are going to give you the exact kettlebell tabata workouts to do for the next month to help you burn more calories in less time and FINALLY reach your summer fitness goals!

All the details are at the link below:

-> 28-Day Kettlebell Tabata Challenge

But hurry if you want to sign up, because we start this coming Monday, June 7th, and the first week of workouts get posted over the weekend!

Train hard, talk soon -

- Forest Vance
Kettlebell Expert
Over 40 Training Specialist
KettlebellBasics.net