This is probably one of my favourite questions. Essentially, at a boot camp, and especially one that’s located outside in the park, the options for different exercises are potentially limitless.
Your instructor may bring his or her own equipment to us in the park – kettlebells, power bags, battle ropes, tug of war ropes, boxing mitts and pads, agility poles, hurdles, socks, broomsticks, all sorts of equipment to use for exercises that are really only limited in their variety by your instructor’s imagination.
Typically, bootcamp exercises will be bodyweight exercises.
Your instructor will incorporate exercises in which you will push, pull, bend, twist, run, jump, shuffle, squat, lunge, punch and often use each others’ bodyweight as resistance – like equipment in a gym. Further, in a park there will be benches, trees, pathways, and often children’s play equipment. An imaginative instructor will create exercises using these and whatever else is available in the park, in the natural environment. For instance, your park may have a steep hill in it. It may have a forested area, and your instructor could have you moving around in there, clambering over log piles or even using chopped up logs as weights!
So to answer the question ‘what sort of exercises do we do in a boot camp?’ is really to ask how imaginative is my instructor? What type of natural environment will I be working in?
And how much fun can we have?
Because you see the more fun you can have, and the more variety you can have in the exercises, then the more likely it is that you’re going to enjoy an innovative and challenging boot camp session.
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