Thanks to Jen Heath for this M&M article:

http://www.mindandmuscle.net/articles/jen-heath/conditioning

These are the real deal, folks.

This afternoon, sprinted 8 x 20 seconds with 10 seconds walk recovery on the track. Hardest four minutes of my life. Will attempt these three times weekly, with a long hike on the weekend as my only other cardio. 30 minutes later I was absolutely ravenous, and couldn’t help but plow through tomorrow’s filet. Positive partitioning, don’t fail me now!

Tabata sprints are the hardest of the hard core. Good work old chum!

All I have to say about them is that they are a bitch.

Your welcome, for the article!

I am glad that you are all able to take this style of training and use it. I personally do all of my early morning cardio (emc) in the tabata or timed interval fashion of some kind during the last 6 weeks pre-contest, and I follow it with steady state. Typical stubborn fat loss protocol.

It works for my conditioning year round too.

On the subject of being ravenous 30 minutes later...that is no joke. Talk about a way to increase your mtetabolic demands in what seems like no time flat!

Why am I a bodybuilder? So I can get to the food afterwards, and that's no lie

The only thing postive i can say about this kind of training is it makes most other pain in life seem much less bad.

I guess I should try to speed up my workout ...

The problem I have is in transitions -- Difficult to move from one set to the next (which require different types of exercise equipments) within 10 sec ...

It is difficult to do actual weight training in the Tabata style unless you are doing sets of like 3, and staying on the same movement. My suggestion is that if you are changing exercsies, try and do it as fast as you can if you are trying for this metabolic effect for your weights. You'll get more of the traditionally timed interval effect (most likely it wil take 30 seconds to change if you boogie)

Marc wrote an article called how to lose fat like you're on crack, which incorporates the idea of HIIT and weights for sure.

Doing the workouts exactly as listed of course can be your cardio, but applying the principles to weights can be tricky, but beneficial if those are the results you are after.

Aye, thanks to Jen for a good article.

Jen and I hosted an outdoor workshop a few months ago, and she ran the whole class through a nasty tabata-esque session. Halfway through it I was sure I was going to get to use my defibrillator on about half of the participants.

It was brutal to say the least, compounded by the fact that she picked a spot in the park littered with goose shit.

Everybody wearing white looked like they lost a wet oreo cookie fight.

I am hysterically laughing. Yes yes...my nicest nike shirt is forever ruined, I'm afraid.

Doing this routine is no joke. If you want to condition your ass, just add it in.

these made my realize how long 20 seconds is

pfff "did" the workout yesterday, my tights burned like pure hell... didn't acutally got the whole workout done, just about 70 %... damn really need more condition...

if you dont do all leg movements maybe you can go a bit longer

my ass, tights and my calfes are so sore today from the lunge jumpes, i am a pussy...

on www.rosstraining.com - he gives some good examples for exercises you can include in intervall workouts

exercises i think you could mix in that don't take a lot of switch work are besides all kinds of jumps, squats and burpees something like, cleans/snatches with all kind of instruments (kegel, bag, dumbbell), ballistic push ups, pull ups, medicine-ball trhows-at-wall, rope turns, etc. etc...

I did the exact same scheme a couple years ago. The article I read on it called it Guerrilla Cardio though.

Anyway, the 6 minutes was pure hell and I felt like I was gonna kill over and i could barely walk; but when you're finished, it's one of the best feelings in the world.