Bootcamp. The military fitness?

If you like intense outdoor workouts, you should try a bootcamp session. You will see that not nothing compares to it.

As the name indicates, the bootcamp is based on physical training used by the military in so-called “training camps”. This training, although extended to personal training techniques and fitness in general, is especially hard and challenging in physical terms.

Practiced for one hour or more, and in the open space, similarly to the classic military training, bootcamp can be done in parks, stadiums, beaches or forests, and regardless of weather conditions. These “training camps” also serve to create relationships between people and are even used to promote team cohesion within companies. Endurance and fellowship go hand in hand in practice this sport.

Very popular in the United States, this form of training has extended to the United Kingdom in 1999 and since become increasingly known in the rest of the world. The goal of bootcamp training is to increase strength and resistance of our bodies, promoting better overall physical condition, encouraging each athlete to give more than he would in a regular gym workout.

The exercises tend to be quite different, but generally combining aerobics with strength moves. Some of them may even include martial arts movements. A bootcamp training session has suspensions, push-ups, sit-ups, squats, planks and Runnings, among others, but always combined and performed in various forms, which makes this a particularly exciting activity.

Bootcamp is a type of training with intervals, in which high intensity exercises are combined with other less intense. Its benefits include improved cardiovascular health, weight loss – it burns about 800 calories per session, increased strength and endurance that increase muscle mass and a widespread increase in confidence by overcoming the physical effort.