Published in February 7th, 2010
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In this day and age when the fitness bug has bitten almost every second person in the world, your fitness training business can really go places. By starting a fitness boot camp you can gain popularity as well as substantial amounts of money as a fitness trainer. Fitness boot camps have grown in popularity mainly because they offer an intensive workout experience amid natural surroundings. And in order to give the participants at your boot camp, that intensive workout, you need to choose the right exercises.
Warming Up
The exercise schedule should ideally begin with a warm-up session. This is because you will, in all probability be making the participants start early in the morning when the muscles are still taut after sleep. In order to prepare the body muscles for the actual exercises, warm-ups will thus be necessary, if you want to prevent any injury.
The main benefits of warm-ups such as stretching, before starting a fitness boot camp workout session are:
Increased muscle temperature and flexibility
Increased body temperature and dilation of blood vessels
Flexibility in joints and an improved range of movement.
The Exercises
Next, comes the all important workout session. This should ideally not be more than 45 minutes long so as not to exhaust the participants completely. The main types of exercises that you should look to incorporate are:
Push ups: this is a great exercise for the body, which helps to increase core strength. It affects the muscles of the chest, shoulders, arms, abdomen and legs.
Plyometric exercises: the vision behind starting a fitness boot camp is to make people healthy. These exercises are also aimed to do the same by improving athletic ability in terms of speed and power. The best Plyometric exercises are hops, jumps and bounding movements. For example you can ask the participants to jump from the top of small box and ‘rebound’ from the ground onto the top of bigger box.
Interval training: this involves alternate phase of intense and easy activities. While the intense activities help in rapid consumption of energy, the interval phase gives the body the opportunity to replenish the energy and oxygen reserves.
Core strength exercises such as abdominal crunches, sit-ups, side bends etc
Speed training with the help of different varieties of sprints, such as 10, 20 or 30 meter drills.
You can end each training session with some gentle stretching so as to help the participants cool down. Also obtain some feedback from them about the exercises they did.
Fun and Games
In the course of serious workouts, do not forget that you also promised the participants, while starting a fitness boot camp, a lot of outdoor activities that would add the element of fun and help in team building.
So, you can plan for team competitions such as a tug-of-war or partner exercises such as a three legged race. You can even set up obstacle courses and team relay races.
The right exercises are one of the most important things you need to select before starting a fitness boot camp. If your exercises are effective while being challenging, people will keep coming back to your boot camp!
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