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5 Tips To Select The Best Fitness Boot Camp For You

December 8, 2009 by

While just about all fitness boot camps include warm ups, workouts and an endless number of exercises, what you need may be more than that. Here’s how you can find the best boot camp to meet your specific needs. Keep in mind that your body is unique and has a specific way of responding to exercise, so you should gently experiment with it to understand its capacity, all while constantly making an effort to enhance it, and make it get as fit and healthy as you can.

Most fitness boot camps last anywhere from 30-60 minutes training 3-6 times per week. They include resistance training consisting of equipment as well as body weight. Some exercises might include push-ups, running, lunges, core exercises, squats and partner or team exercises. Each fitness boot camp begins with a warm up and ends with a cool down, which incorporates stretching exercises. Try to find exercise boot camps, which give you all this, and more. Choose a specialized boot camps such as weight loss boot camps or sports specific boot camps, in order to meet your specific goal. Consider the 5 tips below carefully before zeroing in on a particular boot camp.

TIP 1. Workouts can range from 5-50 participants; so find a bootcamp that puts a limit on the number of participants. Even good instructors are limited in the participants they can monitor, so avoid boot camps that exceed a 15 to 1 ratio (participant to instructor). If there are too many the trainer will not be able to make necessary adjustments to keep everyone on task.

TIP 2. A few workout boot camps have instructors with military backgrounds and take more aggressive training approach. You must decide how encouraging or how intimidating you want your instructor to be, according to your goals and your personality. Most boot camps have little or no military regimen but take more of a fun and energetic approach to personal training. However, both methods yield great results.

TIP 3. Any reputable bootcamp should be led by a qualified fitness instructor or personal trainer with recognized certificates and or a relevant college degree. A medical clearance and private fitness assessment should be mandatory. This time will give you and opportunity to ask the instructor any questions, and address any concerns you may have before beginning.

TIP 4. A good boot camp instructor should answer all your questions and never ask you to ignore injuries or bodily pains. Just be sure you do your homework and not follow the instructor blindly. Traditional, military style boot camps mean tough workouts and subjecting the body to the worst of conditions. Most people are looking for something way milder than that and therefore never encouraging you to pull your body beyond its limit.

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TIP 5. Any sound fitness camp should provide some sort of trial period. Use this time to learn as much as you can from the instructor and existing members and discuss their results. Make sure you have plenty of time before or after your trial sessions to talk to others. If you don’t feel comfortable doing this, pay close attention and listen carefully during the class to get a feel for things and quickly determine if the particular boot camp will be a good fit for you.

Brandon Carrier is a Kansas City Personal Trainer, Fitness Expert and Author. He and Brittany Katz are the owners of www.BootCamp21.com / A 21 Day Rapid Fat Loss Boot Camp located in Kansas City/Overland Park. To find out more about these rapid results Kansas City Boot Camps, visit BootCamp21.com for the answers to all of your Kansas City Boot Camp questions.

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