Welcome trainers, to our (mostly) annual workout idea competition!

The Annual Bootcamp Ideas Competition is a yearly hunt for some great new workout ideas and it’s a chance for you to share your favourite workout creations with the community.

My hope is that this year’s competition will create an excellent collection of workout ideas for the whole Bootcamp Ideas community.

Here’s the quick version of how it works:

Step1: Trainers (any trainer) send in their workout ideas.

Step 2: The ideas are posted here on the Bootcamp Ideas blog for all to see and use.

Step 3: As a community of trainers, we’ll test out the workouts we like the look of and try them out at our sessions.

Step 4: Then we’ll vote on the one’s we liked the most.

Prizes are given to our favourites and there is also a random giveaway so anyone who’s entry is accepted has a chance to win.

Don’t hesitate to enter, you might just win!

The competition is over: View this year’s Winners!

Please read everything below before entering to make sure your entry is accepted and to help make my life a bit easier.

This Year’s Theme is…

Minimal Equipment Group Fitness Workouts

In previous years the competition theme has included all kinds of different types of drills: warm ups, ice breakers, finishers, fast drills and full blown workouts.

This year I think we’d all love to see what everyone has been running in their sessions lately, be it online or in small groups without much equipment.

Your entry could be a drill you’ve found works awesome on Zoom or a partner workout that doesn’t require campers to touch each other. A workout idea delivered on any system is welcome, the key element is that it uses only a little equipment.

I’m going to be keeping an eye out for drills that:

• use creative ways to engage clients
• use a small piece of equipment in interesting ways
• treat limitations as an opportunity to do something completely different
• are easy to follow and teach

The Prizes

As with this year’s theme for workout submissions, the prize pool this year are tools to help you run your business online.

Grand Prize

This prize is awarded to the designer of the drill we feel is overall the best minimal equipment workout idea.

The winner will get:

1. 12 months membership to BootCraft which includes:

• Hundreds of workout ideas (over 700 ideas!)
• Search and filter database
• On demand workout ideas when you need them
• Save hours of time coming up with new ideas
• Access to weekly updates
• Collection of Bootcamp Ideas ebooks (worth $199)

2. 12 month membership to the Fitness Games Zone which includes:

• 800+ fitness games in 16 different session categories
• New workouts added every month
• On demand access to all PDF materials in printable format
• Random workout generator for quick planning
• Virtual workout templates

4. 3 months access to The BootCraft Fellowship which includes:

• Weekly team accountability check-in’s
• Weekly social media/newsletter prompts
• Interactive quarterly training on marketing, systems and more
• Private community
• All online so you can access from anywhere

The Grand Prize is worth over $500!

Runners Up Prize

This prize is awarded to the designers of the two drills we also loved but didn’t quite take the winning position.

6 months membership to BootCraft which includes:

• Hundreds of workout ideas (over 700 ideas)
• Search and filter database
• On demand workout ideas when you need them
• Save hours of time coming up with new ideas
• Access to weekly updates

The Runners Up Prize is worth over $100.

Awesome Random Draws

Three lucky entrants (Grand Prize winner excluded) will be randomly drawn to choose from the prizes below.

The first drawn will get first pick, then the second will get to pick from the remaining two prizes, and the third will get the third prize.

This way everyone has a chance to walk away with an amazing prize.

A. Strategize and Launch your Blog / Social Media in 3 Days (live group course + 1:1 coach session) with Stephanie Huston

Stephanie Huston is the founder and CEO of a creative content agency — they guide entrepreneurs to quickly and easily unlock/express their brand, then launch and maintain their blog and social media online presence through simple, automated systems and efficient processes that are customized based on each business’ unique strengths, vision, and strategy.

Stephanie Huston has created a comprehensive yet scrappy step-by-step 3-day course for easily launching and managing one’s professional + personal brand online so you can most efficiently grow your community and make an impact. You will be invited to join a live 3-day group course, led by Stephanie Huston, and given access to all course materials, resources, and templates.

• Your choice of any live course date that works best for you (use by August 31, 2020)
• Magically unlock your brand style (and how to communicate it to your team!) with our intuitive Brand Profile Guide
• Customize your media strategy (website, blog, email list, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc) – get the basics if you’re a beginner or take it to the next level if you’re already in a good flow
• Get access to exclusive SH templates for your social media posts, posting process, style guidelines, etc to make your own (they are excellent tools if you ever outsource your social media post writing)
• BONUS: 45-minute 1:1 coaching session with Stephanie Huston (your choice of before or after the course)

B. Daily Mission Cards – Creative Play & Movement Missions​:

Child-led imaginative play reflects real life, it teaches everything from social skills to numeracy, dexterity to emotional and physical balance. Climbing, running, dancing; in this movement, a healthy sense of freedom and of moving towards one’s goals is experienced. The older we get, the less we play.

If you struggle to fit play into your day, choose one of our 50 Daily Mission Cards to nurture your inner child.

The deck holds seven different types of play which all represent a different colour of the rainbow. Each colour is made up of seven missions making a total of 49 missions in the deck. The 50 th card is the special rainbow magic card which can be completed as the last card in the deck or however you choose to use the missions.

The cards are designed to offer ideas and activities to encourage those who use them to take a daily dose of play into their lives! They aim to act as a catalyst for activity – not to be the only way to play but ones that will guide and help shape time with family, friends, work colleagues and of course your inner child!

C. 6 months Premium PTMinder membership which includes:

• Client management and results tracking
• Calendar style scheduling of group and one on one sessions
• Take payments (CC and direct debit) and bookings online
• SMS and email reminders
• Assign workouts and nutrition programs

Gift For All Successful Entrants

If your workout gets accepted and published you will get just for entering:

6 weeks membership to BootCraft which includes:

• Hundreds of workout ideas (over 700 ideas)
• Search and filter database
• On demand workout ideas when you need them
• Save hours of time coming up with new ideas
• Access to weekly updates

That’s awesome value, just for entering!

Other Awards

There are several awards we like to hand out that don’t come with prizes, just bragging rights. Here they are:

• Trainer’s Choice: Given to the highest voted workout drill.
• Most Creative Workout: Given to the workout that really stands out as something unique.
• Best Teambuilder: Given to the best workout that makes good use of teambuilding elements.

Plus, I might just make up a new award if I think a workout is worth it. I also might not give out one of the above awards if none of the entries fit the category.

You’re just going to have to live with my pedantic nature.

How To Enter

Contestants will submit one of their favourite online workout ideas in the proper format (see below) via this form.

A shortlist will then be created by the Bootcamp Ideas readers and our judges.

Successful entrants will be posted as they come in on Bootcamp Ideas for everyone to check out.

To be a successful entrant your workout should follow (at least closely) the format outlines below. Any unusual exercises should have links to a video demo or a thorough explanation. If we need more info, we’ll email you for it.

I know a lot of you write your workouts in shorthand, I do the same, please expand them into long hand before submitting your entry. Take the time to be as clear as possible.

We have had some great entries in the past that did not to well simply because trainers didn’t understand them in the way they were written so it’s worth taking an extra 20 minutes or asking someone else to read it before you submit it. If you struggle with writing, just let us know when you submit your entry and we’ll do out best to help.

How to Format Your Workout for Entry

Each entry should be formatted in clear sections like any you would find on Bootcamp Ideas.

Here’s what it should look like:

Drill Name: please give your drill an awesome name
Drill Length: eg. 5 minutes
Drill Category: would you like to enter this as an online drill or minimal equipment workout?
Drill Description:
Include any set up/preparation, how the drill works, exercises and any videos or pictures that will help.
About You: write a few lines about you and your business
Website: add your website or a social media URL here

Some things to check before submitting:

• Create subheadings if your workout has multiple parts.
• Check for typos!
• Expand any shorthand you have used to full length. Acronym’s like AMRAP and EMOM are acceptable though.
• Last but not least, give your drill a name!

Your workout will be posted to Bootcamp Ideas more or less as is so the clearer it is to follow, the better chances you have of winning!

Important: What I won’t accept:

• Other people’s workouts (without their permission). I know we tend to see and adapt off of other peoples workouts so there will always be some overlap, that’s fine. However I won’t accept a workout that has been pretty much copied from someone’s blog post, book or membership site.
• Workouts that are too basic. By this I mean if your workout is a list of 30 exercises done for a minute each or a circuit done 3 times for a minute each, I won’t accept it. The beauty of these competitions is sharing stuff that is fresh and new and can be used by other trainers. Try to share something unique.
• Poorly formatted. If your workout is written in short hand or there are a lot of typo’s that make it hard to understand.

In any of these cases please know that I won’t just reject you like an a**hole without saying anything. I’ll probably just ask you to submit a new idea or make your existing one clearer so keep an eye on your entry for that.

Entries close Sunday 11:59pm May 31st, 2020 AEST.

Voting

The competition is over: View this year’s Winners!

Voting will begin on Monday June 8th, 2020 which will give us time to get the entries live and for you to start trying some out.

The winners will be judged by both the voting from the readers and by the judges who consists of a select group of trainers (including those donating prizes). Combining the two methods means someone will not just win because they have the most Facebook friends who voted for them.

The Random Draws will be drawn randomly out of a hat from the remaining entrants. So anyone who puts themselves out there and enters has a chance to win!

All winners will be announced on Monday June 29th at midday AEST here on the blog and on Facebook (I’ll also email you). This will give us time to test out which and vote for the drills we like.

Submit your entry here:

Please submit your entry using the button below. Entries are now closed, voting starts soon!

Entries close Sunday 11:59pm May 31st, 2020 AEST (note that is an Australian timezone). A maximum of 20 entries will be accepted, first in best dressed. This is to stop it from being way too overwhelming in choice for those testing and voting.

During the last competition the entries filled up about 4 days so make sure you get yours in fast!

Entries will be posted on the Bootcamp Ideas blog as we get them so the sooner you enter, the more people who will probably see your workout and get to try it out.

Special thanks

Many thanks to the following for donating prizes. Please take the time to check out their websites.

• Dale Sidebottom from Fitness Games Zone for donating prizes.
• The guys at PTminder for kindly donating once again.
• Stephanie Huston for donating her time and experitise.

Kyle Wood

Kyle Wood created Bootcamp Ideas in 2010 when he was hunting around on the internet for workout ideas. He ran a successful bootcamp in Victoria, Australia and spends his spare time managing this site, adventuring (or lazying) with his wife and find new ways to make bootcamps even better.