Keeping costs down is straightforward when you run small-scale fitness classes. A few pieces of equipment will take you a long way. This kind of training also appeals to a broad audience whatever their age, and clients can set the intensity themselves. Running small-scale classes also lets you create a sense of community, which helps keep clients coming back. That doesn't just reduce your own costs – it reduces your clients' costs too. Because classes are often run in groups of 5 to 15 people, the cost per client can be considerably lower than one-to-one training. That makes it possible to reach a wider audience.
The benefits of small group training for a coach
- You can keep your costs down easily, because it can be done anywhere. A little small-scale equipment will take you a long way.
- You reach a broad audience. It suits all ages, and your clients can make it as demanding as they like.
- You can create a sense of community, which can encourage clients to stay with you.
- It isn't just your own costs that come down, but your clients' as well. Because you can often run an hour's class for a group of 5 to 15 people, you can charge far less than for an hour of one-to-one training. That also helps you reach a wider audience.
- In the summer months you can teach outdoors. And who doesn't enjoy training outside?
Our first 5 products, ideal for bootcamp classes
Perhaps the most obvious product of the lot. Suitable for every training level.
It can be used for all kinds of abdominal work, and for stretching and cooling down.
A kettlebell, sometimes called a girya, comes in a great many sizes. In small group training, kettlebell swings are perhaps best avoided given how technical the movement is.
But thanks to their endless versatility, kettlebells are indispensable for your bootcamp. Think shoulder presses, lunges, squats and deadlifts. You can also combine them with plenty of the other products on this list.
The Toorx Equalizers 35 cm are more than just a press-up support.
You can also use them as a hurdle in a drill, or for plank variations.
A step is an all-time favourite with men and women alike.
A few of the exercises that build fitness and strength: the classic step-up, burpees and box jumps. You can also stack two of them and train your triceps, for instance. Combine the aerobic steps with deadlifts or goblet squats and you've got a demanding but enjoyable and efficient variation.
Thanks to the handles supplied with it, you can work in every direction. Core stability benefits every training level.
Stabilisation exercises combined with some more demanding power work make for an ideal mix.
