What is HIIT and Why You Should Love It

  At BootCampSF in San Francisco, we regularly incorporate High-Intensity Interval Training (or HIIT) into our routines. So what is HIIT? HIIT training has plenty of well-documented benefits and is the broad term used for a training technique that involves short bouts of intense exercise alternated with (sometimes active) lower intensity intervals of recovery. If … Continued

Are Boot Camp Workouts for Kids?

More and more kids are at risk of obesity, lower muscle strength, poorer coordination, and shakier balance than kids in generations gone past, because fewer and fewer kids are getting enough exercise. Children used to spend more time outside, and they seemed to naturally stay fit through the fun and games that they played with … Continued

Are Boot Camp Workouts For Seniors?

People love the boot camp workouts we do in San Francisco, and with good reason. There’s simply no substitute for arising in the freshness of an early morning dawn to meet with a group of motivated people and work out in the beautiful outdoors. If you’ve never done a boot camp workout before and you’re … 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 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

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

Physiological Benefits of Boot Camp Workouts

If you’ve been training with Boot Camp San Francisco for a while, you know how great you feel after an early morning workout where you pushed it to the max at one of our locations. While being fit and strong makes you look great (and also is super-convenient when you have to move something heavy), … Continued