Fitness boot
camps kick butt
And they’ll help
you shape up
BY SHEILA ASCROFT
to fit the skill level of participants. Classes
It’s
5:30 a.m. on a drizzly Monday and you’re trying not to
start every two weeks at 6 a.m., 7 a.m., and
fall as you run up the slippery grassy knoll while someone
9 a.m. and 6 p.m. Believe it or not, the most
you’ve paid money to shouts at you to try harder. Arrggh! popular time is 6 a.m.!
It’s 5:30 a.m. on Monday, four weeks later. It’s sunny and your cruising
MBC holds sessions in Central Park in
The Glebe (July 14, 28); Carlington Park in
up the knoll on strong legs and a happy heart, thankful to be urged on by
Westboro, Centrepointe Park in Nepean,
someone you’ve paid. Yeehaw!
and Fairmont Park near the Civic Hospital
This is fitness boot camp when it works the way it’s supposed to.
(July 7, 21). This summer it is also offering
a mobile version; if you have seven or
Interested in finding out more? Below yoga, cardio, agility training, calisthenics, more friends and a better training location,
you’ll find a list of some local outdoor fitness short-distance running, circuit training and Mybootcamp will come to you.
boot camps. Many offer a free try-it-out … whew! MBC, as do the other boot camps, uses
class. Go ahead, call and commit to Survivor opened at 100 Walter Baker local obstacles (benches, fences, hoops)
improving your fitness. Turn your Monday Place in Kanata and has since expanded to and natural land formations (hills, trenches)
mornings into something different. Merivale Gardens Park in Nepean. You have to make the training fun and interesting.
Remember: attitude is (almost) everything. a choice during the four-week session to If you are sitting on the fence, you can try
exercise three ($225) or five times ($275) before you buy at the Glebe location.
surViVOr
each week for an hour. The times are 6 in Dedication and hard work throughout
bOOt camp
the morning or 6 in the evening. the four-weeks could make you eligible for
The attitude of Get more Information at 613-818-5445 rewards from partners CareerJoy, Paddlefit,
this boot camp is or
www.survivorbootcamp.com. Nutrition Action and a naturopathic doctor.
summed up with Get more Information at 613-899-7974
the words: “We
mybOOtcamp
or
www.mybootcamp.ca.
supply the motivation, you supply the sweat Mybootcamp’s
and effort.” Although its slogan “we kick website takes
Ottawa aDVenture bOOt camp
butt (yours)” may seem a bit aggressive, time to explain Its training approach is “life is a journey
you can try out a free class before deciding that a “boot camp of adventure – welcome to yours.” As the
if this is what you want. One participant is a superior exercise regime that is inspired oldest, original and biggest Ottawa boot
recalls, “I signed up knowing it was going by military concept and structured to train camp, it
to be outside my comfort zone and horribly soldiers. It is now available in a civilized offers nine
unpleasant, but it’s fun!” form to train men and women of all ages kinds of boot
Certified trainer Mike Firnkes says and fitness levels.” camps
Survivor gets you outside for fitness, fun MBC’s regime is based on a five- ranging from women’s only, men’s only,
and fresh air. Classes are held outdoors day program, where each day offers a co-ed, kettlebell, running and its newest
until winter; if the weather is really bad, completely different workout from the next. “explosive team training camps.” Held at
they move inside. The program offers core, You can choose to work out three days or the Terry Fox Athletic Facility at Mooney’s
lower- and upper-body training, Pilates, all five days and the program is modified Bay Park, OAB runs four-week sessions
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