As you can tell from flipping through this website, bootcamp workouts come in all shapes and sizes.

While a lot of the workouts I share with you use intricate drills, tyres, ropes and lots of running, sometimes it’s important to give your clients a basic high intensity strength workout to reinforce technique and burn a lot of energy. In fact I schedule in what I dub a ‘boring’ workout once a week for my groups.

What is a ‘boring’ workout?

When I talk about boring, I mean for me, not my clients. I couldn’t stand coaching eight workouts a week where I am watching the stop watch the whole time (even with a Gymboss). I like variety, I like 3 people running one way and 6 running the other way and the rest dragging heavy ropes across the wet ground. Those are fun workouts.

However, the bootcamps are not about me, they are about my clients and high intensity strength workouts are great because they work.

I am not very good at planning them, so usually I will go to a Bootcamp Girls workout or a bootcamp workout idea for some inspiration. Recently I added MRT Bootcamp Workouts to my repertoire.

What are MRT Bootcamps?

If you have hunted around online for bootcamp training, no doubt you have come across Turbulence Training. In fact there is a banner on our recommended products page.

Craig Ballantyne has created an online empire for his brand Turbulance Training (TT) He is a great role model in learning how to take the skills and knowledge you build as a trainer, packaging them and selling them to a wider audience. TT has had a bootcamp package out for sometime now, but more recently Craig took his new Metabolic Resistance Training (MRT) techniques and turned it into a series of 61 bootcamp workouts.

This book is a great source of simple high-intensity and strength bootcamp workouts to use in conjunction with more fun and interactive challenge type workouts.

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