RABC Additions?

Greetings RAW Lifters,

I am looking into some new programs that I may offer at the Finley Wellness Center (FWC for short), looking to purchase one or maybe a few programs. Here are some options I am looking at, and I want your opinion on what you think I should offer and would have some interest in. I will give a brief synopsis and offer my own thoughts on them:

IMPACT Boot Camp - IMPACT stands for Intense Mixed Performanace Accelerated Cross Training. It is a sports fitness based boot camp, where there are a lot of athletic movements, drills, and activities involved.  This looks appealing to HS athletes, youth athletes, plus adult males & females as well. Classes are 3x/week, would look at 2-3x/week with what I could offer in Finley if I did this. Sessions would be approximately 1 hour in length, with warm-up/cool-down as a part of it.

FitRanX: pronounced Fit Ranks, its a total system I could put in place that will offer workouts to do daily, based on your current fitness levels & rankings.  You see, like martial arts, there is a ranking system involved with this program. Instead of belts, there are special colors for each fitness level ranking, worn as a wristband. There are 8 levels to move through, with programs for men & women, as well as age groups for men & women.  This is something that is pretty much a 'turn key' operation for me, and could get started ASAP since I have most of the equipment.  Workouts would last 30 minutes, which has worked well for me in the past.  I am leaning towards this type of program, due to its unique ranking style and brief workout sessions involved.

TACTIX: Tactix is a martial arts based fitness program, involving no contact between participants or competitions.  Kicking pads/mitts are used for learning the basic kicking/striking movements.  With the popularity of MMA on the rise, there is a boost in martial arts fitness programs nationwide, looking for training similar to MMA style training.  I know there are a lot of Tae Kwon Do students in the area, so maybe this would be a good option to do, as a way to stay in shape for those TKD competitions and a way to practice similar movements.  I think sessions for this are about one hour in length, too.  I would have to get a lot of other equipment to start this after I get the basics on how to run the program. 

My own Boot Camp:  I have done other boot camp programs in the past, starting my first one in Ohio for a small fitness center in Dublin, OH at that time, and later doing them in Thief River Falls, MN and trying a while back to get small group training going in Finley.  My coaching interfered a lot with it, so I pretty much ceased with trying to do it.  Next year though, I am going to have some more free time since I will not be coaching a sport in the fall.  I could do my own programs as I have done in the past, starting this summer and moving into the fall and some of the winter before I start up with basketball season.  I have a lot of program styles I have blended together with bodyweight, kettlebells, and bands setup in stations to work through.  The station/circuit format I feel is very time efficient and effective.  In this scenario, I could offer both the RABC program in a group setting, plus the interval training sessions in-between the lifting days, so you get detailed programming each day. Think of it as Rats Alley Boot Camp, in that sense. 2 lifting days, 2 interval days per week, 30-60 minutes per session.  Interval days would be 30 minutes or less, lifting days about 45-60 based on the workload for each workout.  This would be ideal for athletes as well as for general fitness with this mix of both classic strength training routines and new, cutting edge interval training plans.

I want to bring something new & fresh to the FWC, so if any of these programs interest you, please let me know via the comments here, or if you have questions to ask me about the programs,  email me at rick@asapworkouts.com . So, if IMPACT, FitRanX, Tactix or a Rats Alley Boot Camp offering suits your interests, please let me know.  I want to bring something to YOU, and I need YOUR input on this! Thank you!

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Rats Alley Barbell Club
Coach Rick Karboviak