The reason why modern people need to “work out” is because we’re not laboring anymore. We’re not hunting, gathering, farming, or carrying water. Thus, philosophically, I tend to look askance at any workout that doesn’t look some sort of movement that mimics the ancient types of labor.
Somehow, I got roped into doing a Tabata class. Tabata is described as intense weight training, combined with circuit training. But the class I was in was 45-minutes of medium weight, high-rep insanity!!! In my estimation, Tabata has no relationship to anything that anyone would do in a pre-industrial world. This workout was utterly modern and highly influenced by too many 1980s aerobics classes.
I am so unbearably sore, I’m having a hard time standing up. Life is not good right now. Bleck! Worst workout ever.