11 At-Home Tabata Workout Videos to Get Your Heart Rate Up and Strengthen Your Muscles

High-intensity interval training, HIIT for short, is one of the best kinds of sweat sessions if you're looking to get your heart rate up and work your muscles to their fullest capability in a short amount of time. Want to better your cardiovascular health? HIIT's for you. How about shedding fat? HIIT can also help with that. Tabata specifically is a type of HIIT you've probably heard of and, if not, should think about trying. It consists of 20-second maximum-effort intervals followed by 10 seconds of rest. This goes on typically eight times, or four minutes straight, before you move to the next circuit.

Not sure where to start? You don't even have to leave your home to reap the benefits of this fast, calorie-burning routine! Find an open space, roll out a mat if need be, and ready your water bottle and your good attitude. Ahead, you'll find videos you can follow along to. Some are traditional Tabata; others put their own twist on the Tabata style (for example, one Class FitSugar video includes "super Tabata" rounds where you work for 40 seconds instead of 20). The videos range between four and 45 minutes, and they feature moves to get your heart pumping and exercises to tone your muscles. Plus, browse through these Tabata apps afterward for more sweat sessions and timers specific to this type of workout.

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30-Minute Tabata Session With Class FitSugar

This Class FitSugar half-hour Tabata session is led by Equinox instructor Raneir Pollard. After a warmup, you'll do cardio Tabata rounds with moves like jumping jacks and air jacks, as well as rounds where you'll focus on strength exercises such as push-ups and squats. "You can do anything for 20 seconds!" Raneir says — and he's right!

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4-Minute Full-Body Tabata With Heather Robertson

Trainer Heather Robertson gives you four minutes to work through eight different exercises such as mountain climbers, side leaps (with jumps), and high knees. You'll do each for 20 seconds followed by a 10-second rest. For a bigger challenge, repeat the circuit one or two more times.

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30-Minute Tabata Workout With Sydney Cummings

NASM-certified personal trainer Sydney Cummings is bringing you this half-hour Tabata sweat session with bodyweight circuits. The first circuit, which is more of a warmup to get your abs engaged and body moving, features jumping jacks and planks that you'll alternate doing four times 20 seconds on, 10 seconds off. The next circuit targets your lower-body and core (jumping lunges and V-sits). The circuits that follow have the same format but different moves.

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25-Minute Hip-Hop Tabata With Class FitSugar

Keaira Lashae brings us a Tabata workout that's full of hip-hop moves targeting the abs and booty and brings the smiles and the heat. I tried another one of her Class FitSugar Tabata workouts last month, and it was so much fun!

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30-Minute Total-Body Tabata Workout With Hasfit

Hasfit follows a Tabata setup of four rounds of 20 seconds on, 10 seconds off for each exercise. You'll only need a set of dumbbells, which you'll use to do moves such as sumo deadlifts, split snatch, and split squats.

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45-Minute Tabata Workout With Class FitSugar

Raneir and his infectious feel-good attitude are back with a full-body, no-equipment Tabata session. In 45 minutes, you'll do a warmup, circuits full of moves like squat variations, mountain climbers, and something he calls "skiers," as well as a cooldown. One circuit is even all about quick feet, and he encourages you to make sound effects to get through the 20-second intervals!

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45-Minute Total-Body Toning Tabata Workout With Fitness Blender

This workout consists of a six-minute warmup, 34-minute Tabata session, and four-minute cooldown. The Tabata circuits will switch between high-intensity cardio exercises and strength moves. The workout follows the traditional format of 20 seconds of work and 10 seconds of rest eight times through for each move.

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12-Minute Full-Body Tabata With Heather Robertson

Heather is back with a longer Tabata session that lasts 12 minutes. It consists of three different four-minute Tabata circuits, and you don't need any equipment. You'll do jumping jacks and mountain climbers in circuit one, high knees and T push-ups in circuit two, and pop squats (or drop squats) and bicycle crunches in circuit three.

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10-Minute "Super Tabata" Workout With Class FitSugar

Raneir from Equinox is at it again with a 10-minute Tabata workout that's all about your core. You don't need any equipment for moves like standing oblique crunches, six-inch holds (lower than a V-sit), and planks. Some of the session follows a "super Tabata" format where you'll do exercises for 40-second intervals as opposed to 20-second intervals.

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40-Minute Tabata Cardio and Abs Workout With Sydney Cummings

Here is another one of Sydney's Tabata-style workouts. You'll be doing 18 separate moves that are either cardio-focused or ab-focused.

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20-Minute Tabata Workout With Class FitSugar

This Tabata session only takes 20 minutes and features squat jacks, push-ups with bird-dog reaches, high-knee variations, and mountain climbers. This is set up like the "super Tabata" we talked about earlier. It's 40-second high-intensity intervals and 20 seconds of rest.

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