This 4-Minute Tabata Workout is Perfect For Your Whole Body

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There are days when you feel especially strong and want to finish your workouts on a strong note. And particularly for those days, we have the perfect 4-minute Tabata session for you.

Tabata is a type of HIIT workout where you switch between intervals of high-intensity exercise and intervals of rest. In Tabata, 20 seconds of your best effort is followed by 10 seconds of rest, and you repeat these half-minute intervals eight times, for a total of four minutes. The Tabata session we’re sharing with you today includes the following four exercises:

  • Forearm plank rock
  • Jumping lunge
  • Lateral plank walk
  • Lateral shuffle

Forearm Plank Rock

Get in the forearm plank position and get ready to rock back and forth as you keep your core straight and strong.

Jumping Lunge

Alter between jumps and lunges for 20 seconds, then rest for 10 seconds. Drop into a lunge with your left leg back, then get up and jump, and then do a lunge with the right left back.

Lateral Plank Wall

Get in a high plank and take two steps to the right, then two steps to the left so you’re constantly moving from side to side.

Lateral Shuffle

Stand up with your feet slightly apart. Do a quarter squat and touch the floor with one arm, and then take three steps to the right. Repeat the movement, taking another three steps to the left, and so on.