What’s tabata for you?

What a beautiful day in RVA for another classic beat down.
12 surly dudes showed up at The Creek to see what was going to happen.
This is how the whole thing went down…

COP —
52 SSH
Helicopters
10 merkins OYO
Arm Circles
Chinooks (overhead arm circles)
10 merkins OYO
Roll-ups
LBC’s
side plank raises both sides
10 merkins on own
Gas pumps
Freddy Mercuries

Indian Bear Crawl up to the Field

4 Tabata Workouts
TABATA 1 — Plank Jacks and Mountain Climbers
TABATA 2 — Flutter Kicks and Heels to Heaven
TABATA 3 — Merkins and Werkins
TABATA 4 — Jump Squats and Frog Jumps

Back to the Flag, Numberama, Name-o-rama

YHC is deeply indebted to Phonics for introducing the Tabata concept to the PAX a long while ago at DaVille.  Since then, YHC has wanted to incorporate Tabata into a Creek workout.  This was the perfect morning for that.  Tabata was developed by a Japanese scientist who was obviously also a sadist.  It doesn’t seem like it would be that difficult to do an exercise as hard as you can for 20 seconds, break for 10, and then do a complementary exercise, break for 10, and then alternate between the two for a grand total of 4 minutes.  The ten second breaks never seem long enough.  YHC is trying to figure out at this moment in time which muscle group hurts the most.  It seems to shift throughout the day.  At first, the legs were complaining the most.  Now it’s the arms.  It’s always a pleasure to lead this great group of guys even if they do complain from time to time.  (I won’t mention any names)  Suck it up, buttercup! 🙂
Looking forward to the beatdown Saturday morning!

Peace,
Opus