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Boot Camp Articles

Looking for boot camp articles? Below you will find current and useful information relating to boot camp training from IDEA's award-winning publications.

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Combined Training for Fitness and Weight Loss Clients

by Amy Ashmore, PhD
In today’s marketplace, knowing how to offer combined training is a must-have skill. People want it all—cardiovascular, strength and flexibility training—in just 50 minutes.
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  • Aerobic Exercise
  • Boot Camp
  • Cardiovascular Training
  • Client Advice
  • Personal Training
  • Personal Training: Program Design
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  • Program Design
  • Program Trends
  • Research/Exercise Science
  • Sample Classes
  • Sample Classes
  • Sample Workouts/Program Design
  • Strength
  • Strength Training
  • Weight Management

Sample Class: Tabata-Inspired Blast

by Lynne Skilton-Hayes
The high-intensity interval training wave is still cresting, thanks to its positive metabolic effects and its ability to elicit results. HIIT raises the anaerobic threshold and creates excess postexercise oxygen consumption (EPOC), or oxygen debt. Simply put, metabolism stays elevated for longer after an intense workout than it does after low-intensity exercise.
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  • Aerobic Exercise
  • Boot Camp
  • Branded Programming
  • Client Handouts
  • Group Fitness
  • Instructor Skills
  • Program Design
  • Program Trends
  • Sample Classes
  • Sample Classes
  • Sample Workouts/Program Design

Creative Ideas That Inspire

by Lisa Quigley
Cardio Sweat Party, at Power Studios in New York City, was designed by Michele Gordon. It combines kickboxing with dance, athletic drills and upbeat music for a 55-minute, high-energy experience. Classes are open to all fitness levels, and each class begins with a dynamic, kickboxing- based warmup before moving into three to four segments of choreography. In between the choreographed moves, rounds of squats, lunges, jacks, burpees, mountain climbers and other athletic drills round out the experience.
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  • Aerobic Exercise
  • Boot Camp
  • Branded Programming
  • Cycling
  • Cycling
  • Equipment
  • Flexibility
  • Group Fitness
  • Instructor Skills
  • Program Design
  • Program Trends
  • Sample Classes

Sample Class: Body-Weight Barrage

by Justin Ochoa
When was the last time you taught a class based solely on using the body as a "machine"? Body–weight exercises are often undervalued and underused. Many people want to advance rapidly, and they end up neglecting important functional (and foundational) movement patterns. Body–Weight Barrage blends popular strength training moves with cutting–edge training methods in a way that challenges clients at any fitness level without using barbells, dumbbells or any other equipment.
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  • Abdominals/Core Conditioning
  • Boot Camp
  • Cardiovascular Training
  • Equipment
  • Group Fitness
  • Instructor Skills
  • Program Design
  • Program Trends
  • Sample Classes
  • Strength Training
  • Stretching

Power Up to Prevent Injury

by Debra Orringer, MS
Participants rarely think about injuries until after they happen (hopefully not in your class!). But someone who needs rehabilitation may face a delay in meeting fitness goals. Another issue: Our group fitness studios are filling with people of many different ages and abilities.
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  • Boot Camp
  • Cardiovascular Training
  • Client Advice
  • Group Fitness
  • Injuries/Injury Prevention
  • Instructor Skills
  • Program Design
  • Safety
  • Sample Classes
  • Stretching
  • Warm-ups

Getting Permits for Outdoor Fitness Programs

by Lisa Druxman, MA
Finding Locations On any given day, you can find an outdoor fitness class operating at your local park. But it wasn’t always this way.
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  • Boot Camp
  • Business
  • Business Planning/Strategies
  • Personal Training: Business

Boot-Camp Methods

by Cathie Ericson
According to Greg Justice of AYC Health & Fitness in Kansas City, Kansas, “the key to metabolic resistance training—or boot-camp workouts—is that it uses a perfect blend of both anaerobic and aerobic exercises to build muscle and burn fat as efficiently as possible.” In broad terms, according to Justice, a successful boot-camp instructor can implement four basic types of interval/circuit training methods:
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Reboot Your Boot Camp

by Cathie Ericson
Why do people come to your boot-camp classes instead of booting up their Blu- rayTM disks? There are a lot of reasons: Variety, camaraderie, encouragement and motivating music are all essential elements of a perfect experience. There’s nothing worse than a bummer boot camp, and you work hard to keep participants motivated and on track to reach their fitness goals.
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  • Boot Camp
  • Group Fitness

Safety Considerations for Outdoor Exercise Classes

by Jessica L Cline
Over the past few years, boot camps and outdoor exercise classes have been gaining popularity. According to the “Worldwide Survey of Fitness Trends for 2013,” published in ACSM’s Health & Fitness Journal (2012; 16 [6], 8–17), boot camps ranked number 16 in popularity for 2013. Outdoor activities also showed up in the top trends, ranking 13.
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  • Group Fitness
  • Safety

Boot Camp Business: Make It Thrive!

by Cat Smiley
Running a successful company is much like being an athlete. You’ve got to attack the task with dedication, commitment, passion, integrity and respect for the road ahead and the people who are part of it. Just as you keep clients by training them to run faster and jump higher, you’ll build a long-lasting boot camp by starting out great and just getting better. To secure success for your boot camp business in the long term, consider these strategies. Have the Best Workout in Townnewsletter_teaser: Running a winning company is much like being an athlete. It takes dedication, commitment, passion and integrity. Secure long-term success for your boot camp business with these strategies.
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