Looking Back at the First Women Bootcamp

Today is the last workout day of the Perth Women Bootcamp in 2008 and everyone turned up on the morning of Christmas Eve with the same level of enthusiasm they had in the first session. The Perth Women Bootcamp started off in late November 2008 with 5 participants. I must say it’s quite a difficult month for most people as many find it pretty hard to achieve any meaningful goals let alone motivate themselves to start exercising. I wasn’t very hopeful to get anyone at all in the camp but somehow I was fortunate enough to have 5 very motivated ladies enrolled in the boot camp. If you asked me why I started the boot camp in the first place I would say that it’s because of Ingrid, the first bootcamp member, who signed up for the bootcamp online. Then she got her friend Gabby to come along and somehow I ended up with 5 people. I was going to start the boot camp even if I got only one bootcamp member for the month even though it‘s not going to be cost-effective for me. Believe me! I was going to do it and I done it before with the fitness camp with 1 or 2 members for several weeks in the winter and you can see why I was very thrilled to start off with 5 members this time. I was very pumped to help everyone of them in every possible way to get the most out of this camp.

When I started this bootcamp, I slowly came to realize that people have an impression that a bootcamp workout would have people crawling on the ground under barbwire, doing crazy amount of pushups, lifting giant ropes above their heads and addressing their boot camp instructors as corporal of Sergent. Or even get yelled at as “recruits”. But it’s not the case with the Perth Women Bootcamp as everyone is treated with great respect and is worked hard according to her own individual ability. And I’m sure the women bootcamp members would agreed with me. Look at the following videos. It has none of those things that people thought a bootcamp would have.





In my opinion, it’s been great start for everyone at the Women Bootcamp. One member, Dr Leonie, told me that she could have put on a couple of kilos easily this month had you not done the bootcamp in December. Despite the festive season, she lost 2.4kg, 2% bodyfat, and a total of 19cm off her right arm, right thigh, waist and hips. In fact, everyone in the bootcamp had lost centimetres off their body despite not being able to follow the boot camp eating guidelines 100%. It’s not hard to understand why everybody found it hard to stick to the healthy eating guidelines towards the end as I would find it hard as well due to all the overwhelming social events (work Christmas party, friends’ party, etc) that had came up this month. The healthy eating guidelines are not some calories restrictive or starvation diet that some people I spoke to thought it would be. It’s meant to educate everyone how to eat healthy and lose and maintain fat lost permanently and at the same time everyone can apply the eating guidelines into their lifestyles to ensure long-term success.

In the end, I think everyone had worked hard enough to offset the less than perfect eating to lose centimetres off their bodies. And I’m glad that everyone in the bootcamp will have a headstart to 2009.

To all the Women Bootcamp members, I would like to thank you for your participation and the hard work that you all put in. And I hope you had enjoyed the women bootcamp experience and I’m sure you will be able to build on the momentum and find it easier to get back on track to a new body in the New Year 2009!

Hey enjoyed your victory with a few drinks and see ya soon! I’ll be looking forward to my wife’s chocolate cheese cake and enjoy the evening with a few drinks and recharge myself for 2009.

Merry Christmas!
TC