10 Minute Cardio Kickboxing Tabata Workout is a great add on burst of cardio from Lindsey @ NourishMoveLove. There is no warm up or cool down/stretch so it flows very nicely when stacking workouts. This morning I did a 30 minute cardio kickboxing workout then added this as an intense little kickboxing finisher. Then I added on a full body stretch. According to my Apple Watch I burned 98 calories during this workout. I was already well warmed up when I came to this workout. I spent 6 minutes in my peak heart rate zone (Zone 5) and the other 4 minutes at a high level of Zone 4. So it was an intense 10 minute HIIT cardio workout! And all low impact.
As the title indicates, this workout is done tabata-style: 20 seconds of work followed by 10 seconds of recovery. There is a timer in the lower right hand corner of the screen counting down the intervals and recoveries. When there is about 10 seconds left of a move, a video appears previewing the next move. There is a timer in the lower left-hand side of the screen counting down the 10 minutes.
I wasn’t crazy about the way the upcoming move is previewed. How can I pay attention to it when its shown during an exercise interval? The preview video is gone by the time you get to the rest/recovery–which is the appropriate time to show the preview. When you can actually watch it. But it was really only a problem the first time through. It is a circuit of 5 moves that is repeated 4 times. And during two of the moves you cannot watch the screen while doing them (#3 & 5) but once you know what is coming, Lindseys’ verbal reminders during the 10 second recovery is enough.
Frequently Lindsey doesn’t take the entire 10 second recovery but she does work the entire 20 second interval. It was funny because she commented near the end of the workout that the recoveries keeping feeling shorter. Well… that’s because you’re not giving yourself the full recovery!
10 Minute Cardio Kickboxing Tabata Workout is 11:28 minutes; 50 second intro, no warm up or stretch. I wore 2 pounded weighted gloves.
- Lunge + knee drive + lunge + front kick (one reverse lunge into a front knee raise + one reverse lunge into a front kick–all on same leg)
- Bob & weave with hands in guard
- Side to side lunge w/ cross punch (lunge to side with a single arm punch then turn/pivot to other side and repeat)
- High low punch (wide leg sumo squats while punching high and low with one arm)
- Hook & tap (alternate tapping legs out to side while also doing alternating hook punches)
- Repeat #1-5, if a move was done on one side of the body, repeat it on the other side of the body
- Repeat #1-6
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