The power of a Boot Camp

Ah, boot camp! An opportunity and a challenge all at once.

Want to prime your proficiency with your workout?

Ramp up the results of your fitness program?

You can take just about any exercise technique, workout, or fitness routine and create a Boot Camp style fitness intensive.

In the fitness studio, in the gym, with a group of buddies, or solo at home.

What is the idea behind a Boot Camp?

Boot Camps are a traditional and esteemed fitness tool that serve a variety of purposes.

• deepen skill level of an exercise technique
• push the body more intensely beyond its previous reach
• rattle the cage of a fitness plateau, such as strength or weight loss
• contribute to physical confidence and mastery
  

Most importantly, perhaps, the value of the Boot Camp lies in the strengthening of the nerve transmission pathway.

This can take place when the neuromuscular pathway is continually reinforced and practiced in a telescoped period of time.

Really, it's like practicing anything. Repeated focus without lots of time away from the task in between reinforces proficiency.

During the course of a Boot Camp, you can feel this sense of mastery and the body working in concert growing each day.

Personally? My Boot Camp experience has been primarily with T-Tapp, Bar Method, and specific favorite body sculpting sequences, such as my Torso Trimming Series and variations of Pretzel.  Each time, I emerge with more spring in my step, more defined shape, and a great sense of well being.

Case in point:  T-Tapp Boot Camp

For example, with a T-Tapp Boot Camp, you commit to completing the Total T-Tapp Workout – or something similar  – in its entirety for from four to 14 days in a row, depending on one's goals. You can pick any days that you can schedule back-to-back.  The continuity of one day after another is important.

At T-Tapp retreats this is especially powerful, because usually you are doing more than one workout a day.  You have  a focus of attention on the task without lots of distractions between workout sessions.

This is one reason many people get rapid results and/or lose so many inches at retreats; they are deeply focused on exercise form.  Repetitively. The typical "Day 3" of a four day T-Tapp Boot Camp is difficult not just because of the physical demand. The brain is asked to push beyond a complacency.  Past previously attained proficiency.

The Love Your Body Boot(y) Camp for February 2010 is a combination of a Basic Boot Camp and Targeted Body Sculpting sequences.

A double whammy.  Talk about putting power into your practice!   Next…

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