Tabata Love

One things I love about a low carb whole foods (paleo if I have to label) diet is that I can eat what I want, not exercise and never gain any weight. However, I do want to build muscle so I'm going to step up my workouts again. Squat booty here I come!

I detest hours of cardio (prolonged cardio is terrible for your adrenals) or any long and boring workout, so I'm a HUGE fan of shorter but higher intensity interval workouts. If you're not down with tabatas yet, pay attention:

This short 16 minute workout is just as powerful as an hour on the treadmill, with extra strength benefits. Just pick four complimentary exercises and do interval rounds of 20 seconds work,10 seconds rest. I've had trainers set workouts where I did all 8 rounds of one exercise at a time, or rotate like I did tonight. You can download a tabata timer app or just use any digital timer or stopwatch. Track your reps with a handy little chart scribbled somewhere. For example, today I did the workout here:

This short 16 minute workout is just as powerful as an hour on the treadmill, with extra strength benefits. Just pick four complimentary exercises and do interval rounds of 20 seconds or work,10 seconds rest. I've had trainers set workouts where I did all 8 rounds of one exercise at a time, or rotate like I did tonight. You can download a tabata timer app or just use any digital timer or stopwatch. Track your reps with a handy little chart scribbled somewhere. For example, today I did the workout here:

I did as many burpees as I could for 20 seconds, then 10 second rest, the 20 seconds of squats, and so forth.

Do two tabatas a couple times a week and you're doing great! I was lazy tonight so I only did one and then two more slow sets of heavier weighted squats, but I still feel like I got a great workout in less than a half hour.

xoxo, Kellie