In his breakthrough study, Tabata put a group of students on exercise bikes, ordering them to pedal like maniacs in 20-second bursts broken up by 10-second breaks, for five days a week.

Traditional Tabata protocol stipulates that a workout be made up seven to eight 20-second sets with a 10-second rest in between. However, as high intensity interval training methods have grown in ...

Hence the name Tabata! Read on The tabata protocol consists of 20 seconds of maximum intensity exercise followed by 10 seconds of rest, done for a total of eight rotations/cycles lasting four minutes.

Celebrate Latine Heritage Month with this 30-minute Tabata workout that turns Latin dance into a sweaty cardio session. All you need is space to move.

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Tabata, a type of high-intensity interval training that was originally developed for Japan's Olympic speed-skating team, is fast gaining popularity as a high-speed new-mom workout.

Many people assume Tabata is an acronym, but it’s actually the name of the scientist who first studied this workout: Dr. Izumi Tabata, who conducted a 1996 research project on the Japanese speed ...

The popularity of the Tabata protocol has inspired other exercise programs that substitute aerobic activities with multiple-joint, functional-strength exercises while maintaining a high-intensity ...

According to Tabata Protocol online, the athletes would do eight or more intervals, keeping the RPMs on the bike over 85 RPMs until they couldn't maintain that level of intensity.