Military style workouts.

[brewhexe]

Hello. I am new to this community. I go to the gym 4 to 5 days a week, primarily to keep my weight down but also to get fit after giving up smoking last year. I work for the Army so go to the gym on the Barracks, and they provide a military style circuits class which I have been umming and aahhing about for months. I decided to go today and had a

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[thebigbadbutch]

LOL The Daily Fail has no credibility. If it says Army-style fitness workouts don't work it probably means Army-style fitness work outs will turn you from this:

[brewhexe]

LOL I have to agree. If the Daily Fail said the world was ending tomorrow I would invest in long term bonds.

[grownupron]

Clearly the military has no track record of turning soft kids into fit warriors.

Oh wait....

[bluebuckeye]

So this article is saying that doing army-style fitness workouts incorrectly can lead to injury?

And this is news?

[tyggerjai]

Well, and of course performing any workout incorrectly can lead to injury. The question is more about the duty of care that the instructor and company have to ensure that the workout is being done correctly. And there are cultural issues here - it's easy to get the impression that in the U.S., the only rule of business is caveat emptor, and negligence on the part of the vendor will be dealt with reactively in the courts. In other parts of the world, it's dealt with pro-actively by a system that, in theory, insists that the customer has a reasonable expectation that the vendor will take due caution to ensure that the service is appropriate for the purchaser

[tyggerjai]

"is it their problem". More coffee required, obviously.

[cheez_ball]

"...It's a British thing I think, to assume that exercise must equal pain."

Um...yeaaaa.... Y'all could do it the American way: put morbidly obese people on TV and have them compete to lose the most weight.

How can people NOT know what they're in for when signing up for a boot camp? There's a boot camp here that advertises work with a former marine corps drill instructor - rain or shine at the park. Would someone signing up for that expect lemon in their water and soft puppies and kittens to lick the sweat from their brows? They're paying to get their asses kicked and it's up to the service provider to do that - with full disclosure. Do these same people act surprised when their release waiver hot wings are spicier then they expected?

[brewhexe]

I think certain Daily Mail reporters weren't happy at being told to move their fat arse by a man half her age. I guess the old eyelash batting trick didn't work for her this time.

We had Biggest Loser in the UK for a while. For some reason it didn't take. Now we have Supersize vs Superskinny which I love to watch.

[alternate_chass]

We should all be doing the Pat Tillman workout, it's killer.