In spite of having a horrible day yesterday, I somehow managed to get on the bike and do a sprint workout, as planned. This was all built around an iPod set on shuffle, so I decided on 2 songs of warm-up (about 8 minutes), 8 Tabata-esque* sprints of 10s work/20s rest (4 minutes total), and a 1-song cool-down. I didn't promise a long workout, just that I would actually get on my bike, which I did, even though I absolutely did not want to.
I note that the original article has subjects doing this workout 5 days/week. This week I will do only 2, plus shinny at lunch tomorrow (assuming I'm not snowed in again...because of course they are predicting 10-15cm of snow for tomorrow), which is quite definitely an HIIT workout, with more of a random structure in the timing.
* The work/rest periods in the original Tabata article are 20s work, 10s rest, but given that it was my first time doing it, and I was feeling completely horrible, I thought I would start with a smaller work:rest ratio and work my way up to the actual Tabata intervals.
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