Christina and Heidy, our sports expert from Studio C Online, will now share a great workout every month in Santé magazine! Here on the site you can follow the training with instructions in the video!
This time we are going to work with HIIT Tabata.
Christina:“HIIT stands for high-intensity interval training. It is a top training to get fit quickly. You vary in intensity. You work and take rest. That way you get peaks in your heart rate and you work yourself up a sweat.”
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There are many reasons to do a HIIT workout. First of all, the afterburn effect:the combustion continues for a while after training. You burn more fat with HIIT than with a cardio workout at one pace. Your fitness will also improve quickly. And finally:a training costs you very little time. So are you already moaning at the thought of standing on a device for an hour? Then integrate HIIT into your weekly routine. With fifteen minutes or half an hour of intensive training per week you already have a big effect.”
Heidy:“Tabata is a type of interval training, named after the Japanese scientist Izumi Tabata, who researched this form of HIIT. A Tabata block lasts 4 minutes and always consists of 8 20-second intervals of work with 10 seconds of rest in between. You do this for 3 rounds. In 15 minutes you burn a lot of calories and let your heart pump a lot of oxygen through your body. An instant energy boost.”
>> Want to get started with Christina and Heidy? Watch the video!
