By Johnny Simmona

There are times when a Unionville bootcamps can make sense. As a fitness phenomenon, more people than ever before seem to be finding the idea of changing their lifestyle habits and orienting more towards a fitness-based outlook to be an attractive concept. Certainly an end goal that has as its aim a lifelong commitment to good health and physical fitness is laudable.

The nature of our culture and society these days makes it difficult in many cases to find the time to emphasize a bit of healthful physical fitness activity when we should. It seems as if there are less hours in the day to do everything we need to do and as a consequence things like exercise and good diet seem to be neglected in many cases.

Partially as a reaction to this set of circumstances, a number of fitness activities that seek to mimic parts of a military boot camp experience have been created in different areas in North America and Canada. Many of these fitness programs have set up fitness boot camps, if you want to call them such, with many of the same physical training principles one would see in a military boot camp responsible for training new recruits.

This should not be taken to mean that anyone attending a Unionville boot camp workouts would have to learn how to fold sheets on a bunk in the prescribed military manner. What it means is that PT (which is the abbreviation for physical training) as practiced by the military in a boot camp setting will be the norm. It is hoped that lifelong healthful habits will develop along the way.

Most fitness boot camp staff members have extensive training and experience in what it takes to deliver high-quality physical fitness training. They've also taken time to gain an education on the latest in health improvement regimens that they then pass on to their attendees. Many a boot camp instructor was once an actual drill sergeant or drill instructor in the past.

As far as how long a camp might be, it is usually the case that they run for a certain number of weeks, though they are not residential in nature. Intense camps have been held on weekends and there are residential programs that mimic military boot camps for those who have the time and the not inconsiderable amount money it takes to attend them.

Generally speaking, before attending such a camp a prospective attendee will need to fill out a comprehensive questionnaire and undergo a pre-camp physical assessment, either by camp staff or by a physician who will certify that the prospective attendee will be able to handle the increasing physical exercise that can come with such a boot camp.

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