American culture has gone through certain dramatic swings in our preference for sun exposure, from the obsession with lily-white skin in the 1800s to a tanning culture in the 1960s to a real awareness today of the dangers of getting too much UV light exposure. So should you get outside and let the sun see … Continued
Raise your hand if you’ve ever been guilty of getting an expensive set of exercise equipment, only to have it gather dust and sit unused in your basement, garage, or office. It happens to the best of us. You want to lose weight and get in shape, so you resolve to work out. Then you … Continued
If you’ve spent any time trying to build your strength, flexibility, and overall fitness, you might have run into a problem. Your exercises seem to stop working after a given amount of time. Whereas your fitness routine helped you tremendously at the beginning, after a short time you stop seeing the gains in athleticism that … Continued
For all of our readers who work hard to merge fitness and nutrition to reap the simultaneous benefits of both, you’ll be interested in the results of this new study. Have you struggled to maximize your feeling of well-being with nutrition alone? Have you thought of exercise as something that benefited your overall strength, and … Continued
If you are like most of our customers here at Boot Camp San Francisco, you’re dedicated to optimizing your fitness, well-being, and overall health. You’re committed to getting shredded, so you show up to your outdoor workout rain or shine, and you’re not going to just sit down and make excuses for why you can’t … Continued
Have you ever wished that as you worked out, your body would respond faster, get stronger quicker, and just overall adjust more rapidly to the new style of fitness training you’re doing? Believe it or not, with boot camp workouts, you actually get this effect. Here are some tips from our workout program in San … Continued
One of the attractions to boot camp fitness is the element of drill that is built into the very name “boot camp.” People love the fact that this is not some namby-pamby, fluffy, “follow your dreams”-style workout. It’s a workout that kicks serious butt in a way that may leave you gasping for air and … Continued
When you are committed to working out and building your strength and endurance, a successful outcome will depend on a multitude of factors, from your willpower and mental toughness, to the quality of your training, to the persistence and dedication that you devote to consistently pursuing your goals. However, even when all of these factors … Continued
If you have heard of boot camp workouts but have never given them a try, you may be wondering if outdoor workouts are for you. It’s a fact that most people live an increasingly indoor lifestyle, making outdoor fitness seem a bit foreign. We tend to avoid what is foreign and stick with what is … Continued
Have you heard? “Sitting is the new smoking.” So say the fitness experts who authored Deskbound: Standing Up to a Sitting World, a book dedicated to helping office workers other people whose jobs keep them seated all day long. Too much sitting makes your body more prone to aches and pains, but it also increases … Continued