| Brecon Buddy |
|---|
| Courses for: |
| Mixed |
| Graded: |
| Challenging |
Your Current Health & Fitness Levels If you have concerns about your current health and fitness levels, or if you have an underlying medical condition and are wondering whether you will cope with this programme, call for a discussion with one of our trainers. We have specialist trainers qualified in rehabilitation and remedial fitness. |
Fit-For-Life >> You Owe It To Each Other.
Partners, couples and friends, learn how to use the Army’s Buddy System to increase your chances of success and maximise your potential.
Nothing in life worth having comes easy. That includes losing weight and getting fit. If you’ve struggled to get fit, or lost weight and put it back on, you know that already.
Making significant lifestyle changes and learning new behaviours can be a huge step, it may be the most challenging experience you have faced. Even the prospect of a week at Boot Camp can be daunting. Facing such challenges alone can be overwhelming, many give up and revert back to old behaviours. What you need is a buddy.
The activities on Brecon Buddy introduce new ideas for working out together and how to provide each other with mutual support to keep you on track to your goals.
You are more likely to persist with regular training, diet and lifestyle changes if you have the encouragement of a supportive partner to train with than if you are going it alone. Think of your partner as a “Force Multiplier”.
Having a buddy:
- Increases confidence and determination.
- Makes it easier to tackle new and challenging tasks.
- Helps you perform at your best.
- Provides regular reminders and encouragement.
- Gives you a greater chance of success than going it alone.
Come with a friend or partner and learn how to:
- Set goals that are both challenging and achievable.
- Identify and overcome barriers that can prevent you achieving your goals.
- Calculate your Body Mass Index (BMI) and other measures of your own fitness and understand what they mean for you.
- Use training aids such as heart rate monitors to optimise your workouts.
- Train together for success, even if you are at different levels of size, strength or fitness.
- Complement and balance each other’s strengths and weaknesses.
- Monitor and help each other.
- Create a healthy sustainable eating plan that works for you.
- Develop a tailored fitness plan that carries on working for the two of you back in the real world.
Activities
Multi-activity week with an emphasis on medium to high intensity activities interspersed with lower intensity, light or fun periods to aid rest and recovery. Activities depend on duration of camp, time of year and are weather- dependent but will include a combination from the list below:
| Goal-setting workshops (all courses) |
Nutritional workshops (all courses) |
| Team games | Hill walking |
| Wet n’ Wild coastal activities | Military Fitness (all courses) |
| Interval training | Core training |
| Body pump | Boxing circuits |
| Obstacle course | Abseiling |
| Gorge walking | Mountain biking |
| Kayaking | Climbing & scrambling |
| Volleyball | Aquaerobics |
| Water polo | Pilates |
| Yoga and stretch classes | Multi activity trips |
Difficulty Level
This Boot Camp is graded Challenging.
For couples, partners or friends where at least one or both of you has some experience of exercise* and you both want new challenges.
- Full, multi-activity days in the outdoors.
- Combined physical activity length lasting approximately 6 hours a day, some longer or harder days may be involved.
- Activities range from moderate to high intensity.
- Periods of intense activity are interspersed with lighter activities, rest or recovery. Anyone in good health and fit enough to complete a regular long walks or regular sporting activity will manage.
- Designed to challenge your current expectations and push your boundaries.
- Emphasis on improving current fitness levels, increasing your understanding of different training methods and learning how good nutrition can support your performance goals.
- Some experience of working out is recommended at this level.
* If neither of you has any experience of working out, you may both be better off on the Brecon Break-In programme. You can still come as friends or a couple and develop joint goals. All our programmes have elements of working out with partners and our trainers can help you with additional exercises as part of your take-home fitness programme.