The Re-Create Residential Boot Camp
Blog Today is the
last day of our Residential Boot Camp and what an awesome, exhilarating and challenging
week our boot campers have had!  We have put
them through a huge variety of physical activities ranging from high intensity
exercise to low key, long distance endurance training! Our boot campers have experienced emotions
they probably never thought possible, ached in places they never thought
possible and achieved things they never thought possible!Over the
last 7 days our boot campers have enjoyed first class and in depth workshops by
one of the UK’s best Emotional Intelligence Life Coaches, Paul Ryder whose aim
is to re-create the way we look at ourselves and our lives. Our boot campers put their goals to the test
and really dug down and established what it was that is driving them
forwards!  They have
also built self confidence and self esteem through team challenges such as our
21km checkpoint hike on a map across the Derbyshire Peaks, they have learned
how to work under pressure and as a team with our team building skills sessions
and Ju Jitsu Self Defence Work Shops. Our week is
seriously packed out with the tools to transform our boot campers lives! Boot Campers have also enjoyed an absolutely
fantastic day of Nutritional Workshops with one of the UK’s top registered
Dieticians, Jacqui Moran who not only speaks about good and bad nutrition but
embraces an interactive workshop with hands on learning techniques and informative
teaching styles. Our campers came away
learning how to calculate their own BMR, how to weigh foods and read food
labels correctly, how to make the right choices and understand food products
and ingredients within them and have the confidence to continue eating healthily
post boot camp!  Team
challenges have also included a favourite British Military challenge known as
the Log Run where our boot campers are put to the test as a team, carrying a
log over a distance and under a time limit! On top of this, they have been
broken into pairs and challenged to an orienteering race over a 10km route and
experienced Battle PT using logs, sandbags and Tug of War! Section Attack Drills were enjoyed by all
this week as boot campers learned the basics of attacking an enemy position
under physical exhaustion and whilst working as a team! But it’s not
all hard work...! Each of our 4* lodge accommodation has a fantastic hot tub on
the veranda where boot campers have relaxed at the end of a long and strenuous
day. We also host a quiz night, bingo
night & DVD night during the week!The menu has
been designed for boot campers to work as a team. They are given the ingredients and recipes
and must prepare their own meals each day! We developed this system rather than
the chef system because boot campers won’t have a chef at the end of the week
when they leave us! We believe that
after 7 days of learning how to cook healthy meals with the right portion sizes
will enable them to continue doing so when they leave us.  Our last day
doesn’t slow down and the foot is still firmly on the Gas. At 0700 hrs, boot campers were up, out and put
through their second Personal Fitness Assessment with everyone beating their
original scores from the beginning of the week! Result! They have also enjoyed
more Self Defence Training with our Physical Training Instructor, Chris. After lunch they have enjoyed hands on experience
for a second time, learning correct and safe Core Ball exercises to help
strengthen their core and abdominal muscles.
The last day also included our fun run!
This was a 2 team race for water balloons, the more our teams collected,
the more they got to throw at the end!  All in all,
our boot camp offers life changing strategies with a firm aim in our mission
statement. We truly believe that with
the right attitude, determination and drive, people that come on our boot camp
will leave us with an indestructible wall of self confidence and a total mind
and body transformation! We will
never profess that Re-Create Boot Camp is easy... It isn’t supposed to be
easy! Boot Campers willget muddy, they will
get wet, they will experience
new emotions, they will ache,
they will feel mental and
physical pain but they willget through it together. Theywillachieve something not everybody can
achieve. They will have learned what their body is capable of, willhave learned what their mind is
capable of,willhave learned that anything is possible
and willhave learned that a healthy life style should never be a
chore but a way of life! "Pain is temporary. It may last
a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year but eventually it will subside and
something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That
surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel
like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?" - Lance Armstrong- |
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