This no-nonsense Boot Camp Style of workout is popular for those who require military style command.
Keep your participants motivated with variety and challenge. A boot camp workout should provide intense bouts of exercise (strength and cardio) with a no nonsense style of leadership. The goal is to keep everyone moving and benefiting with no whining nor complaining, no excess talking or fooling around. The class format will mix both aerobic and anaerobic cardiovascular sets with muscular strength and endurance. Safety will be paramount with a proper warm up and warm down. Skills and drills will be developed for both the participant who has advanced skill and fitness levels (typically a swimmer) and the less fit participant (the non swimmer). Class design will integrate conditioning through sets of intervals and/or circuit of exercises.
All boot camp workouts may vary greatly depending on the time of the class, the instructors skills, equipment available, water temperature, layout and depth of the pool; however, generally speaking a boot camp class is a no nonsense program that should be at a higher intensity than a regular group exercise program.
Boot camp should contain suitable exercises for people of all fitness levels. WaterART does advocate and promote self-paced exercise due to safety and liability.
This program will provide exercise leaders with a creative and dynamic template of purposeful exercise design and candidates should expect to:
- Utilize 7 basic shallow water working positions
- Utilize 5 basic movement in deep water body positions
- Review the differences between buoyant and resistive equipment
- Work with advanced equipment such as tubing with handles, super duper closed cell noodles, dumbbells,
- Learn the many benefits of interval training
- Review basic skills and drills for ways to benefit both swimmers and non swimmers.
- Review specific program formats for
1) Classes without added equipment in shallow water
2) Tubing with handles in shallow water
3) Dumbbells in shallow and/or deep water
4) Noodle Boot Camp in shallow and/or deep water
- Review and learn 3 levels of intensity progression and 10 variations for each exercise.
