Beach Body Boot Camp - Day One

To recap this morning's class, we started out with a brisk jog to the Riverfront walkway where we continued our warm up with a series of jumping jacks and stair climbs. The warm up is designed to elevate your heart rate and increase core temperature to help reduce the risk of injury from exercise training. The focus of today's class was cardiovascular endurance, recruits may have noticed an elevated core temperature and heart rate (the humidity may have contributed). Continuous rhythmic movement (resistance/aerobic) while maintaining an elevated heart rate will help burn calories and fat while improving muscular and cardiovascular endurance. Across the bridge we did a series of dynamic flexibility and plyometric exercises that will help improve the sit and reach test and one-mile run time. The group fitness challenge at the curb and stairs used lateral movements to emphasize agility and hip strength while burning calories. Next, we did 30-second call-outs on the stairs, alternating between upper and lower body resistance training forcing the heart to pump to both extremities (recruits may have felt their heart rate pumping up a bit here). I was really impressed with the groups indian runs today, great communication and encouragement from both teams, this type of positive support will help keep everyone engaged in the exercise and motivated to work at peak performance. The last series of exercises emphasized resistance training with the bands, the squat row targeted the lower body and upper back, the push-press focused on the lower body and shoulders, the bicep curls targeted the upper arm, while the fire walkers worked the glutes.

All recruits did a fantastic job today and I'm looking forward to Thursday.
Have a great day!

Bryan