Ah, I see. I guess it's been awhile since I've done my Jari Love workouts and I was thinking of them as ST dvds. But you want cardio. So I've been thinking about what cardio would be helpful with a foot injury (I am a recent plantar fasciitis recoverer) and what I thought might work is tabata protocol workouts.
Here is a link to some ideas of some exercises that might work for you:
T NATION | Tabata Method
And I also found another tabata link from the same website that varies the tabata protocol that makes tabata much more appealing to me.
The author gives this reasoning for why he has switched up the traditional tabata protocol:
"Traditional Tabata protocol would suggest choosing only one exercise, such as squats, and repeating that same exercise throughout the entire Tabata interval. I prefer to use either two different exercises performed four times each, four different exercises performed two times each, or eight different exercises each performed once within a given Tabata workout. I find this strategy achieves better results for several reasons:
• When you only use one exercise such as squats for the entire Tabata, the legs gradually fatigue with each working set. This centralized leg fatigue causes you to slow down as the workout progresses and reduces the overall intensity of the Tabata, thereby reducing it's effectiveness as a conditioning tool. Utilizing more than one exercise prevents centralized muscle fatigue and helps you maintain the same high level of intensity in each round.
• Mixing in more than one exercise boosts the overall metabolic demand because it involves more muscles. Put simply, more muscles worked means greater energy demand, which in turn means faster fat loss.
• Doing the same exercise eight times for four minutes straight is monotonous and just plain boring. The beauty of the Tabata paradigm is that it allows us to do anything we want in those four minutes as long as the intensity is high. With that type of freedom, I'd like to think of myself as being a little more creative than simply using squats, squats, and more squats!"
and here is a link to 6 non traditional tabata workouts that the same author has created:
T NATION | Six New Tabata Workouts for Fast Fat Loss
I also like that he includes a way to build up to doing tabata in a 12 and 8 week program.
Hopefully this is one way you will be able to get your cardio in while you heal. You can just pick whatever exercises don't hurt your foot and create your own tabata workout.
- sarah
