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We’ve Got A Winner!

February 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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My clients have hated me over the last few weeks.

Perhaps it’s simply doing a workout that’s designed by someone who is not their usual trainer that has made them all challenging. I on the other hand have enjoyed myself immensely while putting them through their paces.

But on to the part you’ve been waiting for. The winner of our little (or not so little judging by the amount of forum hits) competition.

First Place

With a choice between an internationally accredited Bootcamp Instructors Course or 12 months of workouts and a voucher, the winner is Jess Griffin from NJ Fit Mom.

Her Acronym workout was a lot of fun and damn hard work. I particularly liked the Rock Paper Scissors warm up (we had our clients use their whole bodies to make the rock, paper or scissors) and the EMOM addition.

Second Place

Taking the remaining first place prize was Rubin Allen with his Dynamic Endurance workout. This workout has an excellent combination of interval based strength and cardio drills. Use one or the whole workout.

Runner’s Up

It was very close between the next 3 places. Naomi, Lisa and Axel have just won themselves a copy of Bootcamp Workout Ideas.

Thank you to the other trainers who took the time to share their workouts (David, Mike, Shaun and Kerry). The forum with always be there for you to share ideas and ask questions.

To the prize winners, I will be in contact with you via email over the next few days with how to claim your prize.

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Voting For Your Favourite Workout Is Open

February 6, 2012 By 4 Comments
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Voting for the Bootcamp Workout Competition has begun and will continue until Friday 24th February. I need to to help decide who has the coolest bootcamp workout.

Before I continue, thank you to the nine awesome trainers who took the time out of their busy schedules to share their workouts with myself and the community. There are some awesome workouts here that I can’t wait to unleash upon my clients.

Here are the nominations (in no particular order):

How to vote:

Step 1:

Try out one or more of the bootcamps linked above. They are free to use so go ahead and use them all. You have three weeks to try them out.

Step 2:

Vote on the poll below for the ones you liked.

Step 3:

Go to the forum thread and vote there too. Every little extra vote counts.

Step 4:

While you are at the forum, take a couple of minutes to comment on the threads of the workouts you liked. Go ahead and share any modifications you used too to help other trainers.

To the entrants:

Feel free to share your workouts with your colleagues and fellow trainers. Every vote you get counts!

Poll

Which workout(s) did you like the best?

  • ACRONYM BC! AMRAP/EMOM/RSP by njfitmom (49%, 66 Votes)
  • Dynamic Endurance by Rubin (30%, 41 Votes)
  • Total Body - High Intensity - "7" workout by Lisa (13%, 17 Votes)
  • Legs, Glutes and Abs by totalfit (4%, 5 Votes)
  • Pyramid Workout by Naomi Miller (3%, 4 Votes)
  • Partner Bootcamp Workout by Mikeh (2%, 3 Votes)
  • Timed Bootcamp Workout by shaun (2%, 3 Votes)
  • Climb The LADDER! by dsullivan (1%, 2 Votes)
  • The Kitchen Sink by kmoore (1%, 1 Votes)

Total Voters: 136

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Ask any questions you have below.

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Bootcamp Ideas Annual Trainer Competition

January 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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I’ve been hinting at a bit of a surprise over the past couple of weeks. Finally everything is in place so I can announce it! Read on for more details.

Bootcamp Workout Competition

Who’s got the best workout up their sleeve?

We’ve decided to host a small competition on who can come up with the best workout. You can submit any of your workouts from last year or the years before or you can make up a completely new one.

Here’s how it’s going to work. Trainers who wish to participate can submit workouts via the forums over one week.

The rest of the Bootcamp Ideas readers then have 3 weeks to try out the workouts they like the look of and vote on them. The workout with the most votes wins.

Prizes

The awesome sponsors for this competition are the Bootcamp Alliance and Bootcamp Workout Ideas. Both have been very kind in arranging some great prizes for you.

First Place

First place will have their preference of ONE of the following prizes

OR

Second Place

The second place winner will receive the left over prize from above.

Runner Ups

The next three runner ups will receive a copy of Bootcamp Workout Ideas (value $59)

EDIT: I realised that some of you who want to enter may already own one or more of these products. Rest assured that if you win and you already own the product you will still be looked after. Most likely with a voucher of equal value to a store or program.

Dates

Workouts can be submitted from 9.00am tomorrow, (Saturday 28th January 2012) and will close 11.59pm EDT Friday 3rd February (03/02/2012).

Workouts can be voted on from 9.00am EDT Sunday 5th February (05/02/2012) until 11.59pm EDT Friday 24th February (24/02/2012).

Winners will be announced on Sunday 26th February (26/02/2012) via the website and our Facebook page.

How to Enter

  1. Create an account on the community forums.
  2. Share a workout in the Bootcamp Workouts forum. (Don’t use the form in the navigation above)
  3. All workouts submitted within the appropriate dates will be considered.

Rules

  1. Only one workout submission per trainer.
  2. Workouts should take 45-60 minutes to complete. Warm ups and cooldowns should be included. Please do not submit just drills.
  3. Any unknown/unusual exercises should be described or have links to websites/videos that describe them.
  4. If you would like to submit a workout that you have already submitted to the site before, to keep it fair I’ve decided that you may modify this workout and submit it to the competition.

Terms & Conditions

This isn’t an official competition with pages and pages of fine print. This is something fun I thought we could all do to get the community rocking. There is however a few terms that you should agree to before submitting.

  1. The winning workouts will be featured on the blog (with links back to your site).
  2. Votes will be counted from three  places. A poll on the blog and a poll on the community forums will be provided. In addition, the number of replies to a workout thread will also be added, excluding replies by the author. You can vote in one or all of these places. Note: Replies sent before the voting commencement date will still be counted.
  3. In the case that there is an unusually high number of workouts submitted, I will shortlist them with the help of a few impartial trainers. I will judge them by how innovative they are and how easy they are to follow.

I need you!

This is a community competition so if you feel I’ve been unfair or I’ve missed something out, please pop it in the comments below. I look forward to seeing some great workouts!

- Kyle

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2 Bootcamp Drills for Excellent Endurance

August 21, 2011 By 2 Comments
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Just a quick one today with a couple of drills submitted by DJ Stover. DJ is a Personal Trainer and Air Force Reserve Member in Pittsburgh, PA.

Drill 1 – Pushup/Reach-for-the-sky Pyramids

Pushup pyramid with hand raise above head with extended elbows. Starting reps depend on their fitness level for example an intermediate would be 10. So the campers do 10 pushups, stand up, extended arms fully above head 10 times, then they go back down and do the same thing for 9,8,…1.

Kyle here. I’m guessing you could have them do this as a time filler and the end of your bootcamp with a race to see who can finish first. You could do a similiar one for legs with (jump) squats and supine hip extensions.

Drill 2 – Plank Indian Runs

I also like doing indian runs while the clients do planks. The person at one ends runs to the other end while everyone else holds a plank. The last person doesn’t get up until the previous person gets down to the plank position at the other end.

You could make this a competition between two groups of people and see which team can cover a designated distance first.

Thanks DJ. I’m always looking for user submitted workouts. It’s a great way to share your favourite drills with the rest of the bootcamp instructor community. You can submit your workout(s) here.

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