Revisiting Tabata's Protocol: Does It Even Exist?

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. The effects of high-intensity interval training on physical fitness and physiological responses in taekwondo athletes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of applied physiology · 2026
   Pooled it
2. The effect of Tabata-style functional high-intensity interval training on cardiometabolic health and physical activity in female university students.Frontiers in physiology · 2023
   Article
3. Physiological aspects and energetic contribution in 20s:10s high-intensity interval exercise at different intensities.PeerJ · 2020
   Article
4. Can We Draw General Conclusions from Interval Training Studies?Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2018
   Article

Corrections and comments

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  Response.2016
• Comment on
  Low-Active Male Adolescents: A Dose Response to High-Intensity Interval Training.2016

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.