Its time to bench mark our Tabata scores from last month!
Warm Up - (Take it easy! You want to save those calories for the Tabata’s)
3 Rounds of 20 Pushups, 20 Squats, 20 Crunches
2 x Samson Stretch
Routine for Time -
Tabata Intervals: Pullups, Squats, Pushups, Burpees, Chinnies
My Score: 89 > Pullups – 5, Squats – 12, Pushups – 14, Burpees – 5, Chinnies (no vest)- 53
Way better then my previous score of 60, though I took of the vest for the Chinnies (for the same reason I placed it last in the intervals). It’s not that I do not enjoy the added challenge, its just that I find any form of situp incredibly difficult to perform while wearing it.
If its any benchmark for improvement, I actually beat my previous unweighted score (87) by 2.
Here are a few things that I found helped improve my overall Tabata score:
1) Burpees should be done near the end of the routine as they require an immense amount of energy and will impact your overall performance on all other exercises.
2) Pullups should be done first as though they are difficult to perform in quick succession they do not require that much energy to complete. On the other hand, if you are already tired starting them it will impact your ability to get consistently high repetitions.
3) Chinnies are great at the end because even when your completely beat down from all the others it is still easy to pump out a large number of reps consistently.
4) Tabata’s should be done every 2-4 weeks. This will help keep your body trained for them plus provide an overall benchmark for your performance.