Get in a quick sweat with this full-body Tabata workout, care of Tara Nicolas. It takes just 8 minutes—including a warmup and finisher. Tabata is one of those amazing-yet-awful workout modalities.

In 1996, Dr. Izumi Tabata published a groundbreaking study on high-intensity interval training, or HIIT, and its effects on aerobic (VO₂ max) and anaerobic capacity in young, physically active men ...

Thirty years ago, Izumi Tabata, now dean of the Graduate School of Sport and Health Science at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan, put two groups of physical fitness majors on stationary bicycles.

Tabata training is a supramaximal high-intensity interval exercise protocol that can significantly improve cardiorespiratory fitness, metabolic health, and fat oxidation through short bursts of ...