Get More Sunlight With Outdoor Fitness

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

Why You Should Do A Variety of Movements When You Exercise

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

How Building Back Strength Can Improve Your Performance

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

A Workout Program That Will Speed Up Your Body’s Response to Training

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

How Your Boot Camp Workout Also Builds Your Mental Toughness

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

Indoor vs. Outdoor Fitness: Why You Should Try Boot Camp

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

Reversing the Negative Effects of Sitting at a Desk

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

The Mental and Psychological Benefits of Boot Camp

    Everyone knows that boot camp workouts are great at transforming your body into a lean, mean, hard-muscled machine. But have you ever thought about the fact that boot camp fitness also allows you to reap mental and psychological benefits? It’s true, and Boot Camp San Francisco (BCSF) is no exception. Here are some … Continued

How Outdoor Fitness Benefits your Wellbeing

With so many options for getting fit and healthy, it can be a puzzling thing to know how to choose the best one for you. Is a gym membership the right choice? Or how about a home workout machine that promises you only have to use it for 4 minutes a day? Should you get … Continued