Ask yourself, what's your most effective workout training program? Has it provided you with the results that you're looking for? Has it made a difference in your life? Are you getting bored because it seems you're doing the same exercises over and over again?
Good questions, but possibly even harder to answer. You see, up to this point in the exercise world, most of the structured and resistance based programs you've heard about and maybe even followed stress that it's the straight set formula that will give you better results.
You know the straight set formula. You select one exercise, complete 15 repetitions, and do this 3 times. Oh, and of course you rest for a few minutes between each set. Sadly this is the training that's happily being promoted by most major magazines as well as fitness trainers alike. BORRRING.
For a better, faster, easier more complete way of blasting unwanted body fat as well as toning your sleek, tight muscles you'll want to avoid this traditional way of thinking.
You'll need to select a training method that is both intense as well as total body, thereby working your entire body and all the muscles within simultaneously. Choosing to use shorter rest periods between each of your exercises will also be important in helping keep your heart rate as well as your metabolism elevated throughout your workout. And in a positive group atmosphere, such as in a structured boot camp, you'll find this workout style works best.
Circuit training that's worked into a boot camp style training program solves this issue.
Circuit training allows each individual camper to perform each exercise at his or her own comfortable pace as each exercise is prescribed a certain amount of time. Because each exercise is done for time, someone completely new to the program as well as someone who has already training in this manner will both succeed in getting a great workout because both will move at their own comfortable speed.
So, what's the main difference between this timed boot camp style of training and the straight set plan mentioned above? Why can't you achieve the results you want by doing it the old way? Look, although straight sets are very easy for people new to exercise to understand and formulate a workout program around, they are in essence spinning their fitness wheels. By doing things the old way, you're not ordering your exercises properly. You're not giving your body the best chance it has to burn off the most amount of fat and calories that you want it to. This is just not the way to go for someone who is really seriously committed to their health and fitness.
In the majority of the gyms, health clubs, and fitness centers alike, you'll most definitely see someone doing things the old way. I bet you dollars to doughnuts that after they get everything organized and complete their first set of 15 repetitions on whatever workout machine they are using they'll waste at the very least a few minutes watching the television, talking with friends, or lingering at the water fountain. This is not total body training being performed for it's best use. And in fact it's BORRRING.
Most people tend to take at least a moment or two between their workout sets, but in today's world that's not always the most practical approach. In addition to not providing the person with the proper workout routine and structure, this straight set theory makes each workout last the better part of an hour. This is not realistic for those people who demand quick results.
A better way is to devise your workout using the circuit training method mentioned above. When this is done, one total body exercise is performed, followed by a rest period for say 10-20 seconds, and then another total body exercise is completed followed by another rest. I like to perform these types of workouts with about 6 to 8 different exercises so as to keep the campers engaged in vigorous activity for about 2 to 3 minutes.
By exercising in this way members of the boot camp are allowing their body's to work different areas in a continuous total body motion always keeping their core engaged throughout each exercise.
The remarkable results these campers receive by training in this manner is nothing short of astounding. By training this way the body is able to recover only so much in that you're switching exercises and stressing different muscles. The intensity from one exercise to the next is still there so your always burning those unwanted calories.
The result then is improved stamina, both muscle and cardiovascular endurance, and fun allowing you to get more work done in far less time. The best results that we've found work the best is a circuit program that lasts from 30 to 45 minutes in length.
This is the core foundation for any structured fat loss program not to mention lean muscle gain from head to toe. Again the key is being able to create a workout environment specifically designed for fat loss with maximal intensity with each exercise movement. Circuit training provides this by completing a high volume of total body work to be done in the shortest amount of time possible. Each camper achieves their best results in maximizing fat loss and improving lean muscle gain.
Use this method then to get in the best shape possible and ditch the same old boring routine!
Troy I. Blankenship is a personal trainer and owner of Dream Body Boot Camps in Hatfield PA. Troy specializes in rapid fat loss as well as lean muscle gain with each of his boot camp members. His Dream Body Boot Camps are specifically designed to work the individual's total body thereby getting them into the best shape in the shortest amount of time possible. Check out his blog http://dreambodybootcamps.wordpress.com to see just how his bootcamps are run.
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