For as long as I've been out of the Navy, I have wanted to open my own fitness center. No, I don't want to start a gym filled with nothing but meat heads posing in front of mirrors and only doing bench presses and arm curls. No, I've wanted to own a fitness center geared towards promoting education and strength training for all populations from women, men, kids, and the wonderfully active aging crowd. As time grew on my ideas started to shape themselves a little bit more and I decided I wanted to go more towards sports performance. Then after I graduated with my Master's, I decided that I wanted to go more in the direction of functional mobility and stability and injury prevention for all, not just athletes. After all, weekend warriors get injured a lot more then those that train every day simply because they don't know how to train.
Starting a place is hard work and it costs quite a bit of money. I thought I had something going a few months ago with a up and coming franchise but there were several things that didn't add up properly and I backed out. Rather than incur quite a bit of debt for something I wasn't completely sold on, I passed. Now I'm back at square one and I'm starting small. In starting small I can focus on perfecting my craft and establish bit of a following. Enter Guerrilla Bootcamp.
Guerrilla Bootcamp is now being presented by my business Voltage Strength & Performance. I am now on the 4th week of classes, which are held every Saturday morning at 0900 at various locations across the Louisville and things are going smoothly. I have a steady group of 5 or 6 "guerrillas" every week. So far our training grounds have included the Great Lawn downtown, dog hill at Cherokee Park, and most recently the Fern Creek High School track. I like to think my bootcamp is a little different than most bootcamps. For one, I say "bootcamp", whereas most others say "boot camp". That totally set me apart from the rest. Kidding. I start every class with a simple mobility education. Last week I had a baseball and showed something you can do to help loosen up the pec minor to keep it from pulling on the shoulder girdle. A very simple way increase the knowledge of my participants. It's a very simple way of distinguishing my bootcamp from all of the others that simply want to take your money. I want to educate every one of my guerrillas.
If you are reading this and are living in the Louisville area, I ask you to come and try the class. You will not leave disappointed. The mobility training isn't the only thing that sets me apart. Come to one class and you will find out first hand just how different this class is. And since your first class is free, you got nothing to lose.
BTW, you can now check me out on Twitter. I'm @voltagestrength and I frequently update my future locations and different types of mobility and stability exercises you can incorporate into your routine.
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