Questions to Ask Your Boot Camp Instructor

Is Your Boot Camp Instructor Qualified?

Do they have a quality educational background and or a good certification? There are plenty of instructors at Boot Camps in Baton Rouge and other cities with cheap certifications that they got off of the internet. Obviously certifications aren’t the only measure of a boot camp instructor, but a good certification is an indication that your instructor is serious about what they do.

The two most highly regarded training certifications are from the NSCA and the ACSM. Another thing to consider is either a college degree or continuing education in areas such as physiology, anatomy, nutrition, and exercise physiology.

Currently, our head boot camp instructor is NSCA-CPT certified and has three years of post-baccalareate work in nutrition, chemistry, and biology at LSU.

Does Your Boot Camp Instructor Have Experience?

Certifications are great but having real world experience is just as important. It can take years of studying, training, experimenting with diets, and training methods to know how to train people. Plenty of Boot Camps in Baton Rouge are started by people with virtually no experience but plenty of cheap “certifications.”

Make sure that your instructor actually knows how to perform various exercises and can offer alternative exercises when a participant can’t perform them properly.

Does Your Instructor Practice What They Preach?

Obviously there are some Boot Camp instructors out there who may not look like they’re in great shape, but can produce good results. The only problem is: How do they know what you’re going through if they’ve never tried a difficult training program? The other problem is that many instructors look great but never had to work hard in order to look that way. You know those people that can sit there and eat twinkies all day without gaining a pound of fat ?

Yeah I can’t stand that either.

So make sure that you’re instructor has actually experienced the difficulties of an intense trainin program, busy life,  and friends that tempt you with junk food.