Power People

We have always attracted the nicest folks. Participants that come and stay adopt the workout as their fitness discipline but also the people they meet in the workout as their fitness family.

Together we strengthen our minds, bodies and spirits. We live in the workout and visit the world for the 23 hours between meetings.

Mind

• Running stimulates the creation of new nerve cells and blood vessels within the brain, an organ that tends to shrink as a person ages
• researchers found the athletes' brains showed greater metabolic efficiency and neural plasticity.
• runners have a better ability to focus, to juggle multiple tasks, and to make distinctions. 
• Researchers believe these larger glycogen stores in the brain may be one of the reasons running boosts cognitive function. 
• Exercise promotes the release of the feel-good chemicals called endorphins. Additionally, like many antidepressant medications, running helps your brain hold on to mood-boosting neurotransmitters serotonin and norepinephrine

Body

• Runners who log a weekly run of 10 miles (or more) are 39 percent less likely to use high-blood-pressure meds and 34 percent less likely to need cholesterol meds compared with those who don't go farther than three miles. 
• Men who burn at least 3,000 calories per week (equal to about five hours of running) are 83 percent less likely to have severe erectile dysfunction. 
• Running strengthens bones better than other aerobic activities, say University of Missouri researchers who compared the bone density of runners and cyclists. Sixty-three percent of the cyclists (Spin Class) had low density in their spine or hips; only 19 percent of runners did. 
• Insomniacs fell asleep in 17 minutes on days they ran, compared to 38 minutes on days they didn't. They also slept for an extra hour on days they exercised. 
• A review of 22 studies found that people who work out 2.5 hours a week are 19 percent less likely to die prematurely than those who don't exercise

Spirit

• the high intensity group felt less afraid of the physical symptoms of anxiety 
• those who exercised were “less anxious, less depressed, less neurotic, and also more socially outgoing. 
• those who exercised two to three times a week “experience significantly less depression, anger, stress, and ‘cynical distrust.'”

Faster, Higher, Stronger

Citius, Altius, Fortius

"These three words represent a program of moral beauty. The aesthetics of sport are intangible.
"The most important thing is not to win but to take part!"


BTW:
The most widely accepted inception date for the Ancient Olympics is 776 BC; this is based on inscriptions, found at Olympia, listing the winners of a footrace held every four years starting in 776 BC.

Our morning discipline is older than the New Testament.

Fat Tuesday

Boot Camp is an exercise version of a Mardi Gras party. We parade all over town and fall into peoples yards. Of course, we move a little quicker and when we are laid out in our neighbors yard, it is for exercise and not drunkenness.

Often, shirts come off! Unfortunately, it is always over heated dudes bearing their chest.

Speaking of FAT Tuesday, The Competitive Runner's Handbook sourcing the National Institute of Health has published a body weight index. Accordingly, a "normal" 72 inch runner weighs 140-177 lbs. An "overweight" runner is between 184 and 213. Over 213 is "obese."

Our experience suggest that the ideal race weight for a 72 inch runner is 149 pounds. The ideal race weight for a 5'4" runner is 122.

While Boot Camp is fun, fast and fit, it takes more than a daily exercise routine to achieve ideal race weight. It also takes nutritional discipline.