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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.hesfit.com/men/comment/tabata-the-longest-four-minutes-of-your-life/">Tabata: The Longest Four Minutes of Your Life</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted May 14, 2008 at 03:00 PM by Donnell Peavy</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">From the standpoint of traditional exercise, four minutes really isn’t that long, whether jogging, lifting, doing jumping jacks, or what have you. However, tabata intervals can transform an ordinary four minutes into the longest, most grueling four minutes of your life. Named after creator Dr. Izumi Tabata of the National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Tokyo, tabata intervals proved just how beneficial high intensity interval training could be. At the end of a 6 week period consisting of tabata intervals five days per week, subjects showed a 28% increase in anaerobic capacity and a 14% increase in VO2 max – from exercising only 20 minutes per week. Here’s how it works. A tabata interval is basically an activity performed at maximum intensity (that is key in the effectiveness of the intervals) for twenty seconds, followed by ten seconds…<a href="http://www.hesfit.com/men/comment/tabata-the-longest-four-minutes-of-your-life/">(<a href="http://www.hesfit.com/men/comment/tabata-the-longest-four-minutes-of-your-life/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.hesfit.com/men/comment/tabata-the-longest-four-minutes-of-your-life/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.hesfit.com/men/comment/tabata-the-longest-four-minutes-of-your-life/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.hesfit.com/men/archive/category/his-fitness/">his-fitness</a>, <a href="http://www.hesfit.com/men/archive/category/weight-room/">weight-room</a>, <a href="http://www.hesfit.com/men/archive/category/alt-fitness/">alt-fitness</a>, <a href="http://www.hesfit.com/men/archive/category/his-health/">his-health</a>, <a href="http://www.hesfit.com/men/archive/category/physical-health/">physical-health</a><br /><br /> </P>