Fitness Boot Camps - Time to Kick Your Butt into Shape!

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Sept. 15, 2013 - PRLog -- Fitness Boot Camp classes are designed to push you to your limits (or close to it). However, women and men of all ages, fitness levels and background can and will be accommodated so that you can go at your own pace and progress in a safe, effective way. Trainers will support you mentally and physically and provides a ton of motivation. The program usually starts with a comprehensive health and fitness screening. This process includes measuring your body fat, weighing and measuring you, taking your blood pressure and resting heart rate and determining your present overall health and fitness level. Some boot camps repeat these assessments every 4-6 weeks to track and monitor your progress.

Boot camps have some special festures not found in an ordinary gym workout. Many are held outdoors and often incorporate common environmental features such as stairs or ledges for cardio as well as functional exercises using only body weight or free weights. Workouts usually consist of cardo, strength and flexibility and core training. Interval and circuit training is usually incorporated. Here are the top 5 benefits you will get from joining a fitness boot camp class.

Accountability - in most classes you wll pay a fee to join and no one wants to just throw their money away.

Muscle Confusion - the great thiing about most fitness boot camp programs is that you are doing something different every workout so you create muscle confusion. This allows your body to change more quickly resulting in quicker results.

Comradery - Encouragement comes not just from the instructor but also from the other participants who will cheer and clap for fellow campers. People are often paired or grouped for friendly competitions, fostering a comaraderie and support usually not found in regular fitness classes.

Knowledge - Once you have attended one or several fitness boot camp classes, you will have learned how far your body can be pushed and several, if not hundreds of exercises you can now do on your own to maintain your results.

Nutrition - Most fitness boot camp classs will give you some kind of guidelines on good nutrition to implement into your everyday living.

The majority of people who have joined fitness boot camps are quite satisfied with the end product, the new friends they have acquired and believe that in these times of hectic schedules a fitness boot camp may be the only answer to getting a high-value workout.