Mini Tabata Workout

Here's one of my favorite pics of Zuzka - look at that toned core, that's incredible to me, inspirational.

For today's workout... let's do some tabatas!

Tabata training involves working as hard as you can on any given exercise for 20 seconds followed by 10 seconds of rest, usually repeated for 8 rounds. (That's only four minutes of work!) Tabata is a type of High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) - a study from the National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Japan found that the 20 seconds on/10 off training method improves cardiovascular fitness by working both aerobic and anaerobic systems (read: major calorie blast).

For this workout there are four exercises.  Complete each exercise individually four times (do four 20 seconds on 10 sec rest intervals) then move on to the next execises 4x, etc, to equal a total workout time of 8 minutes:

1. Air Squats or Jump Squats
2. Half Burpees (Burpees w/o pushup)
3. Reptile Pushups (Pushups w/ Knees to Elbows)
4. Footloose (Run in place as fast as your feet will move for 20 seconds)

*Again, perform all four rounds of each exercise before moving onto the next one.