Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Differences between group and boot camp training

We have to address one misconception about our group and boot camp programs. Although they may look the same, group training is not the high intensity endurance training you receive from the boot camps. It's high intensity strength training! The big difference here is similar to the free weight area of a gym and the aerobic area. In the free weight area you have different weights your lifting and completing and then moving from one exercise to next. In the aerobic area you're either on a bike, treadmill, or stair climber in continuous motion for long periods of time. The two exercise systems compliment each other and have there own benefits when combined but you can't give them the same name. There totally separate... One of them is called strength training and the other aerobic exercise.
In our program we try and are pursuing to have a complete balance (if there is) with each pathway of the phosphagen, anaerobic and aerobic energy systems. To do this, we have high power, high intensity, short to moderately short duration - type of exercises that yield to the demand of life threatening situations. In it's simplest form, we call it interval training. And although both (group and boot camp) programs are based on this interval training system they are still in there own respect, different and have to be approached as such.

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