Quick Tip #72--Rapid Conditioning

Unfortunately this will not work for everyone. Some people are genetically predisposed to require more work than this. Don't assume that you are one of those people.

Check with your doctor before giving this a try.

I do not know of anything that provides aerobic condiditoning better for the time put into it than Tabata Protocol. People have not heard much about Tabata Protocol because the Protocol is so simple that no one can make money by hyping it on television.  Though not complex, it is extremely physically challenging.

Saw a great PBS show last week, "The Truth About Exercise", that showed how using a system easier than the Protocol for a total of three minutes a week can create tremendous benefits for some people.

To oversimplify a bit, warm up and exercise as hard as you can for twenty seconds. Rest for less than twenty seconds and then go at it hard again for twenty seconds. Do it one more time. That is a total of hard aerobic work for one minute.

Repeat this three times a week. You won't loose weight or look like a body builder, but for many people who are so genetically predisposed their level of aerobic fitness quickly improves. When one is more aerobically fit it becomes easier to move round and take on the calorie burning challenges of an active life. That is where weight loss occurs.

I lazily started doing this last week. On a whim this morning I did a mile and a quarter of barefoot running on the treadmill. I have never found jogging that distance as easy as it was this morning. Even when I was a teenager a jog of that distance would have tired me much more than it did today.

That means that genetically I am programed to benefit from this regimen. It gives me more energy to do more conventional exercise and most importantly to ride harder and farther. It seems too good to be true. I am shocked at what it is doing to my aerobic fitness.

Again, check with your doctor first.

(This is a Baca Stallion, not our stallion El Rosio, but a relative of his. These horses have the endurance to cover a hundred miles in a day. That is a great goal to train for.)