Making Fitness Fun Again

 

 

Remember being a kid in elementary school and going to gym class?  Remember how you were excited to go because you knew that you would be playing games almost the entire time?  For many people these memories are but fond recollections of a time when exercising was much more about fun then spending hours doing endless laps on a track or lifting weights in a monotony of endless repetitions.  However, this is not the way things need to be.

 

 

The Rise Of Fitness Boot Camps

 

 

One of the main reasons that many people feel the fun has gone out of fitness is the rising popularity of fitness boot camps and boot camp style fitness classes.  The most popular method seems to be that of a drill instructor shouting out exercise orders.  Generally, this is accompanied by a combination of insults and encouragement.  While there are some people who thrive in this environment, many people hoping to get fit again find this style discouraging.

 

 

Bringing The Fun Back To Fitness

 

 

Rick Smith was a fitness professional who wanted to reach out to people who he felt was not being served well by the current trend of fitness.  He felt that there had to be an option other than yelling and forcing people to do endless repetitions of the same exercise over and over.  In short, he felt that fitness needed to be fun.  The problem was that he had no idea how to make it fun.  Luckily, for him, a friend introduced him to the book Fitness Games.

 

Fitness Games is a book that details several “games” that also increase a person’s fitness level over time.  The idea is that instead of engaging in the monotony of endless and boring exercises, playing games that are also

exercise can allow you to reach more people.  By reaching more people, you can achieve the true goal of any fitness professional and that is getting people into shape.

 

 

Think Back A Bit

 

 

Think back to when you were a child who was excited to go to the PE.  Why where you excited?  It wasn’t because you were looking forward to doing pushups all day long; it was because you were excited to play games.  In fact, you probably had no idea that you were actually engaging in exercise, you were just having fun.  By taking this philosophy and applying it to not only fitness boot camps, but also fitness in general, you will find that you are able to serve an entire segment that has been left behind.

 

It may seem like a simple concept, and maybe it is.  However, the truth is that this concept is not being used, and if it were, a lot more people would probably be interested in fitness than are now.  So do yourself a favor as fitness professional.  Buy the book Fitness games, read it, and start to apply the information inside.  By doing this, not only will you see smiles from your clients, but you also might get a fresh take on fitness yourself.