Boot camps are all over the news these days. Just about every local paper has a story about how a boot camp is helping people in their thirties, forties, fifties, and sixties reach their fitness goals. You may imagine a Commerce boot camp as a place where drill sergeants scream at you to do push-ups and run through tire obstacle courses. While some of these fitness activities inevitably occur, the mood is much lighter. Think of boot camp as “all of the intensity, without all the angst.”

• You often make excuses why you “can’t” make it to the gym today.
• You feel you could use some added motivation to get your butt in gear.
• You sense that you could bump up your intensity a notch, but you’re not sure how much.
• You try your hardest in a group setting, where you feel you’re “competing” with others.
• You like workouts that are always different and never the same moves repeated.
• You want to lose persistent belly fat, post-pregnancy weight, or tone up fast.
• You need to see “real, measurable results” within a few months’ time.
• You don’t like aerobics because the moves are too confusing or hard to follow.
• You love the feeling of a real kick-butt workout that leaves you drenched in sweat.
• You’d like to be stronger, more flexible, more muscular, and more toned.

Many people that haven’t tried Commerce boot camp yet are fearful that the program will be too difficult for them. However, there is no better way to get into shape than to try a boot camp regimen. Trainers show ways to perform each exercise at an easier level and a harder level to accommodate various levels of fitness. If you need to walk in place for one of the reps, you are certainly able to do just that. One participant admitted that she wasn’t able to do a single push-up or half the things the routine started out with, but by the end of the year, she was easily completing the entire routine and surprising herself by how much progress she’d made. Along with your boot camp participation is a number of complementary programs to help you adhere to a healthier lifestyle, including seminars about nutrition and outdoor activities like group runs. In the end, boot camp becomes addicting and is really about reimagining your life in a healthier way.

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