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[noahgibbs]

I've now been to boot camp three times this week, which is what I require to declare victory in a given week. They claim it's a five-times-a-week deal, but it's not like I've got time for that :-)

Besides, doing boot camp during the "second day after" phase of soreness sucks. Granted, that's what I did today. But it doesn't make me want to do it three times a week on consecutive days :-)

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[wuttd.livejournal.com]

Who runs this boot camp? A disgruntled former Marine drill sargeant who decided that he could channel his dissatisfaction together with his aptitude as a drill sargeant to create soreness in people who would pay to get abused?

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

Broadly speaking, yes. Dan's not actually former military that I know of.

Check out www.timeoutservices.com for the company in question. Click on "community bootcamp" for more boot camp details.

[wuttd.livejournal.com]

It says they also they provide massage therapy by "certified massage therapists and a dream come true." What kind of special training do massage therapists get in massaging for therapy purposes (and in making dreams come true)?

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

Massage therapists are just what massage folks with, like, licenses and stuff call themselves now. It basically means you're trained in when and how to use particular techniques (particular types of pressure and movement, applying hot or cold to an area, massage for lymphatic drainage, flexibility and mobility exercises, and so on), and you're probably also trained in a lot of anatomy. That's what I did, though I didn't take the full 500 hours. I'm, like, half a massage therapist by NCTBM standards, though I have enough hours I could get a license to work as a massage therapist in most places near here.

As far as making dreams come true, I couldn't tell you. They didn't do much like that in my classes :-)

[skamille.livejournal.com]

5 days in a row of the types of exercises I imagine boot camp would be made up of (push ups, etc) would be a recipe for overuse injuries...

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

There's a fair amount of crunches, push-ups and stuff, but not enough to be likely to cause overuse injuries -- it's on the order of 10-15 minutes a day of calisthenics, and there's stretching before and after. On the other hand, there's a *lot* of running, especially on stairs and ramps, and that might be more likely to cause problems.

Yesterday we went up and down the stairs in the bleachers of Stanford stadium -- up one set of stairs, down the next, all at a run. We only went halfway around, but that comes to a pretty fair amount of running. Around two miles of stairs at a reasonable estimate...

[skamille.livejournal.com]

Ah. I do aerobic stuff basically every day so that wouldn't be a problem. I don't do any sort of weight-bearing exercise (crunches, push-ups, etc) on the same body part two days in a row tho. That always just causes me pain, and you don't really gain much strength from it, although I know some people that do them every day without problem.

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I find that a reasonable number of push-ups (say 50 or less) daily doesn't cause me significant pain. I've never done crunches that regularly, but some similar abdominal exercises also haven't been a problem.

I'm not sure how much strength such things gain me overall, though my experience with using regular push-ups for arm strength have been promising.