Not Sore After Tabata

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Hi there, I wanted to know how is it possible to not have a muscle soreness after a heavy and very painful Tabata session? I have considered having sored muscle after heavy workouts a sign that I have worked hard and the muscle will repair and get bigger but that is not the case with the tabata protocol while I still have made several failures during my workout. Does it still count as a good workout wheb I dont have the soreness the next day?

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Three things

  1. Just because you judge a workout by soreness doesnā€™t mean itā€™s correct
  2. Tabata and heavy donā€™t go together. Nor is it supposed to be very painful (last statement is subjective)
  3. Tabata is for conditioningā€¦
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Agree^^

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Thank you for your response. How to judge if a Tabata workout has been effective if not the failure during the repetitions?

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If you pushed as hard as you could during the work period, it was effective. Your diet and regular routine will determine if that effect is visual or not.

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The Tabata protocol is suboptimal for building muscle.

Weightlifting is a suboptimal substrate for performing the Tabata protocol.

Soreness is a suboptimal metric for assessing workout effectiveness.

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What were you doing Tabatas of?

I agree that Tabata is for conditioning. Do some heavy reps and tabata with something else after if you want to be sore and do conditioning.

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Am I the only person pedantic enough to be bothered when people refer to anything other than the actual Tabata protocol as Tabata?

Like when people talk about shit like ā€œTabata front squatsā€ or whatever. Shakes my soda.

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Brian Alsruhe talked about Tabata Z-Press finisher with an empty bar in a video. That sounded killer and worth trying.

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Why isnt 20 sec Max effort front squatting and 10 sec rest tabata though?

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Trigger warning

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Nope. Iā€™m right there on the fainting couch next to you.

To qualify as fulfilling the Tabata protocol, certain VO2max values must be attained during the intervals. In other words, the protocol is not simply a matter of ā€˜exercise as hard as you can for 20 seconds.ā€™ This is why thereā€™s no such thing as a DB curls Tabata program, for exampleā€“just canā€™t hit the VO2 needed.

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Where thereā€™s a willā€¦

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Because, for one, Tabata consists of more than that. Also, Tabatas werenā€™t about getting into shape but going from a very high level of fitness, these were Olympic athletes, to an even higher one.

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yeah and there was also a steady state cardio component done on different days that people seem to forget about.

Iā€™m not trying to knock interval training in its various forms, just that the actual Tabata protocol was a very specific thing so unless you are specifically doing that specific thing, then your protocol is not specifically the Tabata protocol, specifically speaking specifically.

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I train using a tabata body part split and eat Keto 3-4 days a week.

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Bro you just wordsmithed the shit out of that doctor :fist_right:

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THIS!!!

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The true Tabata protocol:

  • Plan something over 12 weeks
  • Do it on day 1
  • Think ā€œfuck that shitā€
  • Throw it out of your program
  • Park it for 6- 12 months
  • go back to step 1
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Thank you all guys for the answers. So i am thinking of adding an exercise done with the tabata as a finisher in my workouts. Not doing all the exercises in tabata manner!