In My Brain Today: Tabatas is my Life (not really)
By Leslie Lindsay So, last week I decided to take a new exercise class. I have been doing the same-ol, same-ol and had stopped seeing results/feeling good about the routine. It was time. So, skimming over the schedule for the spring classes, I choose to take “Intense Cardio Interval.” Sure, it sounded…well, intense but hey–if you don’t challenge yourself, you won’t change yourself. I went. It was hard. It was really, really hard. There were times I thought I may croack over and die right there in the studio. But, I stuck it out and loved how I felt afterwards. The instructor called it tabatas. What?! I had never heard the term before. Sounded like tobaggan, of you ask me! But we weren’t doing any major snow sledding. And dogs weren’t involved. Though I felt dog-tired when I was done. So, the deal with tabatas is you work out at your highest intensity ever for 20 seconds (sounds like a cinch, right?!) and then you get a 10-second rest break. You do the same cardio …