Tabata Power
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This is 'MAX30 - Tabata Power' by MyVirtualTrainer on Vimeo, the home for high. Shaun T, creator of Insanity and Hip Hop Abs, teaches you how to sculpt the.
If you’ve done a Tabata-style workout before, you’ve never done one as insane as this! Each move in this workout is done twice for twenty seconds with a ten second break in between for a total of four exercises per round. Relief comes between each of the six rounds when you get a 30 second rest. This rest is truly a lifesaver! Tabata Power is done twice a week for the first two weeks of month one.
Each round of this workout focuses on a specific area of your body. For instance, the first and third round of Tabata power is all lower body plyometric work. You will also see a round that is entirely ab floor work, a round that is all tricep moves, and a push-up round. The workout is concluded with a challenge round that samples from each of the previous rounds and is topped off with one killer minute of tuck jumps. OUCH!
I was able complete the workout without having to stop on my second time through. That doesn’t mean it was easy though; far from it! While I would rank this as the “easiest” workout of month one, you are still working your entire body insanely hard the entire way through. I think I was able to do so well on this workout because each of the rounds were so different from one another. Once I finished the first round of pounding my lower body, my legs got a rest because we had moved on to focusing on push-ups. When my arms and chest were about to give out, we moved back to legs. When my legs were dead again, we moved onto something else…you get the idea; combine that with the fact that each move is only twenty seconds and you get quite a few breaks.
I really enjoyed this workout because, compared to the rest of the workouts, it almost seemed like a break…until you get to the full minute of power jumps at the end. Let me reiterate this; this workout is not easy; just not as intense as the other workouts in Max: 30!! Being able to do so well in Tabata Power gave me a confidence boost that I used to go out and conquer the other Max: 30 workouts.
Nemesis Move(s): Power Jumps
Favorite Move(s): Switch Kick Abs
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Tabata Strength
Ah, Tabata Strength; the final workout thrown into the mix during month one of Insanity Max: 30. There are a few things about Tabata Strength that are similar to Tabata Power. For instance, each move is done twice for twenty seconds with a ten second break in between for a total of four exercises per round for 30 minutes. Each of the five rounds tend to focus on a different part of the body (lower body, chest, triceps, etc.) and is concluded with a challenge round that takes you back through a few moves you did throughout the workout for thirty seconds a pop. However, that’s pretty much where the similarities end.
Unlike Tabata Power, you do not get a rest in between each round. Instead, Shaun T has you do a “recovery move”. These so-called recovery moves, while not as intense, still require energy and mental drive. You might even recognize some of them from the classic Insanity like mummy kicks and high knee obliques.
Even if you don’t focus on specific body part, you will inadvertently hit pretty much every muscle group during this workout. Tabata Strength focuses on the lower body with plyometric moves for two rounds (Thank God they are not back-to-back); it also hits the shoulders, triceps, and chest. While this workout does not have an ab round like Tabata Power, don’t think you will get away without engaging those core muscles. You will find pretty much every move also requires core work.
Even though I was able to make it all the way through the last two times without maxing out, this workout is not easy in the least. It does focus more on building muscle endurance as opposed to cardio endurance like the other workouts in month one; however, there is plenty of heavy breathing to go around in Tabata Strength. This was the first Max: 30 workout that I had to max out due to muscle failure instead of cardio fatigue.
The great thing about this workout is the moves are only twenty seconds long and it’s so much easier to tell your mind that you can keep pushing through; you can do anything for twenty seconds!! The drawback, like Friday Fight, is you don’t get a rest between every round, so you have to rely more on your endurance than your ability to recover quickly between rounds to get through.
Nemesis Move(s): Diamond Jumps, Pike Push-up Holds
Favorite Move(s): Hit the floor– knee-up thingy at the end
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