Generally, a bootcamp session will consist of three parts:
Part One will be a warmup, during which we raise our heartbeat. We start warming up the muscles and start lubricating our joints. This warm up will generally take between five and 10 minutes and incorporate all sorts of different movements in order to ready our bodies for the main section of the bootcamp ahead. In a warm up we’ll start gently and will gradually increase intensity until we are fully primed and ready to go.
Part Two of a bootcamp will be the main work section of the session and can take many forms. We generally break this into two or three subsections and quite often we’ll use either subsections or the whole session to concentrate our work on different areas of the body. For instance, we may have a leg day or an upper body day or a core day, or maybe mix them up together during the whole session. Typically, in this midsection of the workout we will also be performing cardio exercises in as much as we will incorporate running around the park, or shuttle runs, or other heart rate raising activities.
We will generally take a break halfway through this part of the session. And once this middle section is over, it will be time for part three.
Part Three will be a cooldown, in which we gradually reduce the intensity of exercise that we’re doing to bring our heart rate down in a controlled manner. And following that, we will spend another a further five to 10 minutes having a very focused and sustained stretch down and cooling off before ending the session.
Most sessions will be in these three parts; a warmup, a main block of activity, and a cooldown, and in general these sessions will last one hour in total