5 Things You Should Know Before Enrolling In A Weight Loss Boot Camp

By Brandon Carrier

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.

Typical exercise boot camps lasts about 30-60 minutes 3-6 times per week. They typically incorporate resistance training using weights and or your own body weight. Some exercises might include running, push-ups, lunges, squats, core exercises, and a few team or partner exercises. At the beginning and ending of regular fitness boot camps there are warming up and cooling down exercises. These essentially involve stretching exercises. You need to find workout boot camps which give you all this, and more. In order to meet your specific goal, choose a specialized boot camps such as sports specific boot camps or weight loss boot camps. Below are 5 tips you should carefully consider before zeroing in on any of the areas fitness boot camps.

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 will never ask you to ignore injuries or bodily pains and should answer all your questions. Do not simply follow your instructor with out doing your own research. Customarily, in military style boot camps your body is subjected to the worst of conditions and drug through harsh workouts. Today, most people are looking for something much more gently than that and for that reason never forcing you to pull your body beyond its limit.

TIP 5. Any reputable boot camp should offer some sort of trial period. You should have plenty of time before or after these sessions to talk to others so use this time to find as much as you can from the instructor and existing members and discuss their results. If you feel uncomfortable doing this, pay attention and listen carefully in the beginning and you should be able to get a feel for things and quickly determine if the particular boot camp is one you would like to continue. - 33373

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