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TURBO TABATA
Borrowing the 4-minute protocol from Professor Izumi Tabata’s study, Turbo Tabata creates a
very intense, yet easy-to-teach class or session format, as Greg Sellar explains.
W
hether or not it is Tabata in its truest form, Turbo Tabata creates a very intense, yet easy-to-teach class or session
format. The content and delivery style ensure that it can be taught one-on-one, as a small group PT session, or in the
studio. It can be modified for all fitness levels, requires no music experience and allows people to do the movement
within the timeframes to the best of their ability. It’s a complete win-win scenario and is bang on-trend.
Background to Tabata
An early version of HIIT was based on a 1996 study by Professor Izumi Tabata et al, initially involving Olympic speed-skaters, using
20 seconds of ultra-intense exercise (at an intensity of about 170 per cent of VO 2 max) followed by 10 seconds of rest, repeated
continuously for four minutes (eight cycles).
Watch Greg demonstrate Turbo Tabata complexes in the online version of this article at
www.fitnessnetwork.com.au/resources-library/turbo-tabata or via the Network
magazine iPad app available at www.fitnessnetwork.com.au/mag-app
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