Nutritional Support?

[GqArtguy]

Do any of you cover nutritional support in your bootcamps? If so, how do you go about it?

For example, keeping food journals would be an idea, but if you have 10-20 people, that gets cumbersome to read very quickly.

Writing out meal plans wouldnt be too bad since they can follow things throughout the length of a camp (say 6 wks) and at least then they will see results. This will require a lot of work to do 20 sample meal plans but its short term and up front.

Fitday would be an idea, but accountability might be an issue and it might not work well for a general fitness crowd who isnt anal about tracking and inputting what they eat online.

The other thing would just be general suggestions , but those are general and will only work for so long.

So do any of you do something different? Not at all? If you dont do nutrition, then how do you keep your clients progressing in terms of body composition?

[Tom@foresight]

With my bootcamps I provide a camp information pack, included in that is basic (and very general) nutritional advice. I then encorage clients to take up one of our much more detailed Nutritional sessions.

TOM

[GqArtguy]

Originally Posted by Tom@foresight

With my bootcamps I provide a camp information pack, included in that is basic (and very general) nutritional advice. I then encorage clients to take up one of our much more detailed Nutritional sessions.

TOM

What else in your info pack Tom?

[trainerty]

Nutrition with bootcamp sounds pretty tedious. My bootcamps have very basic guidelines to follow. The body comp is tracked with bioelectrical impedance. If they want more than the bootcamp offers than that would call for an individual consultation session or plan.

The bootcamps are made to take on general problems and goals. So "individualizing" the nutrition portion as if training an individual client is a not a good thing to me. Also your talking about 10-20 people training in one bootcamp style that primarly works endurance strength and medium endurance conditioning, I assume. How will you know who is carb intolerant, allergic to soy or milk, can only get in 2-3 meals because of life schedule and other variables.

I think bootcamps are great for "foot in the door" type marketing and training, but I would think a trainer would want to reserve individual training and nutrition for individual clients.

[rsmith31]

i give out weekloy healthy recipe handouts and well as weight control tips. At the ver beginning of camp i give them a master food list with calorie amounts, GI ratios and general nutrtitional advice. Ultimately they will have to learn how to eat healthy on their own unless they plan on training with you for a lifetime. Give them the education and tools they to eat healthy themselves.

[Jean-Paul]

One of my charged sessions is right after the orientation, and it's at the grocery store. I give a hands-on session following the TNT diet, showing them how to stock their pantry.

I have little books that I made up for the bootcampers that lays out the rules of my bootcamp, the steps to their success, and a summary of the diet, along with pages for logging both their food intake and workouts.

[Tom@foresight]

Hi GQartguy,

My info packs contain roughly the following:-

- Camp specific info (location, parking, facilities, instructor profile, contact info etc...)
- General camp info (what to wear, expect and basic format)
- Health and Safety + Rules sheet
- A basic nutrition fact sheet
- Goal setting sheet
- Weekly record sheets for diet and workouts
- Pricing structure and info on our other services

TOM

[rachael24]

Where can we get these, Tom?