How To Succeed With Fitness Boot Camps

We are in a new season of fitness. The days of 1-on-1 personal training are being rapidly replaced by functional group exercise.

It is no secret anymore that the only way to really teach a good Boot Camp is by implementing functional exercise into your programming.

If you want to make a GOOD living in the fitness industry you absolutely must learn the art of conditioning groups as if they were personal sessions.

It is so important that your client has a personal experience while working under your supervision and care.

This will make or break a personal training or bootcamp business.

Most trainers have forgotten how intimidating it can be to walk into a new and challenging experience like a fitness boot camp.

Groups can be very intimidating to the average fitness enthusiast. Generally speaking most people seek personal fitness training as a means of boosting their self image or finding themselves again.

As a trainer it is the difference between success and failure when you meet these individuals in a challenging group environment yet make them feel like they are alone with you.

This takes a magic touch. It takes a deeper understanding of why they are here and what they are seeking. It is much deeper then fitness?.trust me.

When you use good systems that are strongly grounded in psychology and human anatomy the results of your bootcamps can be astounding.

Most of the decisions we make in a day are the result of external influences. We are constantly seeing some advertisement pushing us in some direction.

Everyone seems to be an expert in fitness these days. There are too many gurus and not enough real talent.

Do not teach a fitness boot camp if you don't understand movement!

If you don't know why you are picking certain exercises for different camps and you are just randomly searching on ?You Tube? for ideas, you are heading for trouble fast.

You will soon be found out and people will know you are a phony.

As Boot Camp fitness instructor you need to be on the ball. You need to have eyes in the back of your head! But most importantly, you need to know how to throw a good party.

What does a good party have Brian?

Use humor often.
Use first names.
Use encouragement.
Act silly and be fun to look at.
Make them forget you are torturing them.
Be creative!

Let's look at the schematic of a good boot camp. When participants arrive there should be no questions. They should either bring their equipment with them as per detailed instructions by the boot camp post or they should walk directly in to a 'done for you? fitness experience.

Start every class with a dynamic warm-up. A simple way to ensure a dynamic warm-up is by starting with calisthenics. A great reference guide for multi-planar calisthenics is the United States Navy Seals conditioning manual. This 300 page detailed manual illustrates military calisthenics and proper cool down stretches. This manual is available for free on the website listed in the resource box below.

Once the dynamic warm-up has been initiated, the instructor needs to take charge of the class. Questions, talking, whining, and other distractions immediately detract from the overall experience that a boot camp needs to convey. As an instructor, you can be fun and entertaining while still maintaining a high degree of structure in your classes. Rather than explain to you on paper how to progress through a boot camp, I will now direct you to the resource below containing dozens of video examples that you can use tomorrow to start exploding your fitness camp business.

Watch this video for 10 Surefire Boot Camp Strategies You Can Implement Today.

http://www.briandevlin.com/2009/01/10-surefire-fitness-boot-camp-exercises/

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