12 Outdoor Bootcamp Ideas you should be using (2023)

• Metabolic conditioning circuits: which are perfect for burning fat and getting your clients great results.
• Relay drills:For a bit of friendly competition and getting your clients to work a lot harder than usual.
• Song finishers: Perfect for ending every session on a high so your clients are excited to return, and refer other people.
• Bootcamp circuit ideas: which are perfect for building muscular strength and endurance. Look out for the mighty bootcamp accumulator workout.
• Themed bootcamp ideas: These are a fantastic way to stand out from what all the other trainers in your area are doing. Bootcamp bingo is my favourite this week.
• Bootcamp accumulator workouts: These types of drills are very challenging, especially when you set your clients a target goal to achieve.
• High intensity interval training: I love designing outdoor bootcamp ideas around HIIT because it's so effective. Not only does HIIT burn more fat and increased metabolism, but zero equipment is needed.
• Cardiovascular conditioning drills:This type of outdoor fitness training (which I like to put a fun twist on) increases your lung capacity, helps reduce your risk of heart attack, combats high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, and some forms of cancer.

Can’t Stop The Feeling: Fun is highly addictive, which is why I created this ‘HIGH ENERGY’ and fun packed song finisher. Song based finishers are not typically outdoor bootcamp ideas unless the weather is good.

Action Relay:A super-fast paced shuttle sprint challenge that I pinched from football training the other night. It starts off very easy (great for a fun warm up drill) then progressively gets harder. It’s a great HIT sprint drills that I think you’ll love.

You’ve Been Bingo’d:This has to be my bootcamp game of the year, and all you need to play is a handful of markers. That means no printed sheets, plastic counters or even a full bingo set. But don’t be fooled, this cleverly designed bootcamp game (disguised as fun) is also very challenging.

Mighty Accumulator:This monster EPOC drill takes circuit training to a new level. Including 2 unique running drills and a muscular strength endurance element, it’s the ultimate fat burning workout that your clients must embrace.

Boss Roller:It’s a race against the clock in this ‘triple loaded’ high intensity metabolic conditioning workout. Just slot in your favourite strength training exercises and away you go. The first team to destroy the grid (containing 11 bootcamp exercises) wins.

HIIT Cyclone:If you pride yourself on getting your clients great results then you must try this 40-minute high intensity interval training challenge. Combining cardiovascular conditioning and muscular strength endurance, it’s the ultimate calorie burn.

Grand Accumulator:One way to smash through a plateau is to change the kind of activity you are doing. That’s why I created this hybrid bootcamp drill that combines speed training with strength training. This killer workout will challenge your body in new ways for better fitness results.

Thunder run:As far as I know, this is the only bootcamp game in existence where you can gain an advantage by losing, and lose the advantage by winning. It’s also a very sneaky way to get your clients working super hard without noticing.

Shuttle Monster 13:In this 13 minute HIIT drill teams are tasked with completing the dreaded cube. Or should I say the workout monster with 1000 eyes. Only one team can beat the cube and prevail in this fun packed sprint based challenge.

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Dark! I’m not going to lie. This workout will take your clients to a dark place physically, mentally and emotionally. It’s a ninja tough 30-minute drill that must be conquered to gain its respect.

Concentrated Bursts: An unusual 14-minute finisher that keeps the body guessing and challenged in new ways.

Champions of Cardio: In this ‘beat the trainer’ style drill, teams battle to steal points whilst completing a difficult cardio conditioning drill. Good reflexes and an eagle eye will separate the winners from the losers.

Carry On Endurance: With a built in ‘Help’ mechanism that promotes team bonding, this 30-minute creative fitness test is designed to show your clients they’re improving. And that your training is delivering noticeable results.

HIIT Battle Matrix: A killer 24-minute strength circuit design to build muscular strength endurance. With a unique training layout, this workout is extremely effective at burning fat.

HIIT Tormentor: Tabata on its own can be a bit boring, which is why I created HIIT Tormentor. In this 25-minute challenge, I’ve turned the traditional Tabata protocol on it’s head to bring you something fresh, fun and super-duper challenging.

Luck Shuttles: Based around the card game ‘higher or lower’. This 10-minute cardio conditioning drill will get your clients laughing, giggling and having fun. It’s the perfect way to end a session.

Each week I choose my top 2 outdoor bootcamp ideas from my daily emails and share them here. Let me know what you think.

1. An Ingeniousway to write bootcamp exercises on your training markers.One thing I hated doing after the session was scrubbing the black marker off my cones. It never came off. Well, unless I used my Links deodorant. That worked a treat.

This neat little trick I'm about to show should save you some serious time. This ninja bootcamp idea was sent in a while back by group fitness trainer Natalie Smith-TGIF Fitness, Echuca, Vic, Australia.

• Finisher drills
• Dice workouts
• Team challenges
• Fun bootcamp games
• Bootcamp circuits
• Partner challenges
• Kettlebell bootcamp
• Cardio based drills
• Beat the trainer
• Etc...

So I'll be putting together some really cool outdoor bootcamp ideas for my Workout Design Club Members. Does the idea of using this popular TV show as inspiration for your own workouts sound interesting?

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That's why you see some bootcamps with 100+ clients, and others barely surviving. It's all in the quality of the workouts.

This is where the WDC Group Fitness Search Engine comes in. The Workout Design Club lets you plan interesting and varied bootcamp workouts in a matter of minutes, which is extremely valuable when you live a busy life.

Each week I take the most important parts of my daily emails and condense them for your convenience. In this weeks emails I shared 4 outdoor bootcamp ideas that got a lot of positive feedback. I hope you like them.

Title:Body Builder (Upper)

Time: 24 Minutes

Equipment: Towel, K-bell, dumbbells

Complete each exercise for 1 minute x 3 rounds.

1. Half Push Ups

2. Chest Press Core Tension

3. Walk Downs

4. Combat Attack

5. Crawlers

6. Ups & Downs

7. Lat Pull

8. Dumbbell Curl Press

Optional Finisher: Complete 10 Burpees every minute on the minute for either 5 minutes, 7 minutes or 10 minutes.

Title:Cardio Reaper (Cardio)

Time:24 Minutes

Equipment:Slam ball, K-bell

Complete each exercise for 1 minute x 4 rounds.

1. Double Hop Overs

2. Figure of 8 Agility

3. Slams

4. Speeding Burpee

5. Speed Star Jumps

6. Power Sprints

Optional Finisher:Complete 100 slams for time. At the end of tomorrows session complete this challenge again and beat your time. If you fail complete 50 burpees.

Use these drill to create outdoor bootcamp ideas, PT Workouts & Indoor sessions.

Title: Legs On Fire

• Complete 1 squat then 10 squat jumps
• Complete 2 squat then 10 squat jumps
• Complete 3 squat then 10 squat jumps
• Complete 4 squat then 10 squat jumps
• Complete 5 squat then 10 squat jumps
• Complete 6 squat then 10 squat jumps
• Complete 7 squat then 10 squat jump
• Complete 8 squat then 10 squat jumps
• Complete 9 squat then 10 squat jumps
• Complete 10 squat then 10 squat jumps

This bootcamp drill works out at 100 squat jumps and 55 squats. I completed this challenge in 5 Minutes 38 and it gave me serious jelly legs. See if you and your clients can beat me.

Optional Finisher 1: Go back up. 10, 10, 9, 9, 8, 8 etc.

Optional Finisher 1: Between each set, players complete 2 x 20m shuttle sprints. Or you could send them off for a long sprint. Say 100m.

Research shows that anaerobic exercise (like sprinting) is far better at burning fat compared with aerobic exercise. The problem is, sprinting on it's own can be a bit boring.

So, I put my brain to the test to see if I could turn this (usually mundane) drill in to something much more fun that your clients would enjoy. This HIIT drill I came up with is still tough, but it's cleverly disguised as fun.

Method: Line you group out ready for 20m shuttle sprints.

Round 1:Askplayers to sprint out and back. Once back ask the group a true of false question. Players that guess wrong complete 5 burpees. Play as many rounds as you can in 7 minutes. I love this type of HIIT drill because it's tough, yet cleverly disguised as fun.