Boot Camp Workouts

Boot camp workouts are becoming very popular everywhere you go.  Fitness boot camps can be found in local fitness centers and even outside in playgrounds and athletic fields or parks.  Anywhere outside where a group of people can get together and exercise is where you can find boot camp workouts these days.  You don’t have to join the Marine Corps like I did  to get a boot camp workout because now there are plenty of structured classes ran by an fitness bootcamp instructors that will put you through a full body workout like no other.

210 Boot Camp Workouts!!!!

Boot camp workouts are quite different from the traditional aerobics workouts that you may have tried in the past.   The exercises are more demanding working the upper and lower body muscles giving a complete workout and even an abdominal workout without the crunches.  The fast pace of  boot camp workouts allows for a great cardio workout and super fast fat loss using bodyweight exercises.

So why are boot camp workouts catching on so quickly?  I’ll tell you why.  It’s because they are super effective and people see results quicker than they ever have in their life.  The problem with traditional aerobics workouts is that the human body gets very efficient at the movements and through the constant repetition of the same workouts it learns to burn much less energy which means you are burning less fat. It’s nearly impossible for the body to adapt to boot camp style workouts because of the endless exercise selection stressing multiple muscle groups and stabilizers with the rapidly changing pace.

US Marines Live Boot Camp Workouts

I know the power of fat burning boot camp workouts first hand by actually spending 13 weeks on Paris Island training to be a US Marine. We had short bursts of activity through the day that supercharge your metabolism for muscle toning, muscle building, and fat loss.  How do you think they get Marines in shape so quickly?

They definitely do some running during that 13 weeks but the majority of the exercise is in the form of powerful fat burning calisthenics.

10 minute boot camp workouts before dinner

When the drill instructors wanted to really crush us this would be a typical 10 minute session (and we usually just happened to have a spare 10 minutes several times a day which was filled in with these quick workouts).

“Jumping Jacks – I said do jumping jacks now, – faster, faster, get your arms up there.  Hey you, you actually have to jump in the air when you do them!”

“No No, I think I actually said push ups, do push ups, get down there now and start pushing the floor!, PUSH, PUSH, PUSH!!!”

After about 15 seconds of pushups -

“Run in place now, get your knees up, I said higher!” RUN RUN RUN

5 seconds later

Squat thrusts, mountain climbers, back to pushups, running in place, etc etc etc. This could go on for anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes and would leave us exhausted. The worst part is we sometimes we were doing it in a sandpit for added comfort and fun. <sarcasm>

Boot Camp Workouts ran by instructors in a fitness center aren’t quite the intensity (or insanity rather) that you may find on Paris Island as you typically won’t find them yelling at you with insults and swearing.  You actually have the benefit of stopping and leaving if you have had enough (no contract to keep you there).

This means you can actually do try boot camp workouts at home by yourself if you want, or get a few friends over and commit to doing them together.  It’s more fun when you have others to help push you.

Structured fitness boot camp classes have a variety of exercises and can be run at different paces for all levels of fitness.  You don’t have to join a boot camp class for this type of exercise routine.  Boot camp workouts can be put together with a variety of bodyweight exercises and you can even include some equipment to spice it up.

Turbulence Training Boot Camp Workouts

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