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AUGUST 2009 In This Issue Feature Articles Motivate me: starting on the path to a healthy body weight
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Bootcamp University enhances fitness pro's skill set By Mark Vendramini, author of "The Unsexy Side of Opening a Business" Are you a fitness pro that is looking to branch out and expand your skill set? Tired of fitness fads and eager to start whooping butt again? Perhaps it is time to enrol in B.C.U. Bootcamp University is listed as Canada's first accredited certification for Fitness Bootcamp Instructors and is the brainchild of Mark Vendramini, a PTS PRO Trainer and bootcamp instructor in Toronto and his partner, Frank Babbage a professional body builder and former military training instructor in his native Zimbabwe. According to Vendramini, trainers often get caught up with all the rules they put on themselves when in fact, some of the best workouts come when we throw the rulebook out the window. "Nothing will get you working harder than when you are challenged by someone in a bootcamp team relay race or when you challenge yourself to an obstacle course,” Vendramini says. "We try to help instructors challenge their recruits in new ways. Ways that are a lot more fun, and therefore more successful." Babbage continues, "For too many years, the fitness trends have been to simplify workouts. Twenty to thirty minutes, in and out. People start to see that they can only get so much out of that. The backlash has been the increased popularity in bootcamps." Vendramini, who founded the "Bridal Bootcamp" fitness system in Canada, takes pride in the program they have developed for trainers. "Everyone feels good after a really solid workout.” The program introduces the trainers to bootcamp fitness in comparison to other forms of group exercise, the pros and cons of indoor versus outdoor bootcamps and the 'four formats'. These are four typical styles of bootcamp classes that are based on standard bootcamps as well as military protocals. From there, they are taught the A.R.T. of the Push up (Arms Really Tired) workout. They are then put through a rigorous two-hour workout that incorporates all four formats. From there, they are split into teams and given the chance to design their own bootcamp which is presented to the whole group. "By the end of the day they have done about five hours of exercise and they know what bootcamp is all about." says Babbage. "They learn to design an obstacle course with $10 in supplies and how a little competition can bring your fitness to another level. You will become a better overall trainer by doing this." Current plans are to run Bootcamp University six times a year in Southern Ontario and then to look for instructors to run the program in other parts of Canada. "We have had interest from Windsor, Ottawa, Montreal, and even NYC, but we are being super picky about who runs it for us." says Vendramini. "Qualified teams must have one member that has military experience as well as years of group exercise experience. This is to maintain the credibility of the program." For more information, click here.
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