Halloween Howlers – 4 Fearfully Fun Drills

Zombies and monsters and ghosts – oh my! Treat your clients with these four tricky Halloween bootcamp workouts.

Holiday themed workouts are a great way to add some spice to the everyday circuits and interval workouts you run. It also gives you a chance to be really creative and run a bootcamp session that you wouldn’t normally try.

This time of year it gets busy with Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and then New Year. You’ll find that many of these workouts include slamming balls and pumpkins on the ground which is a great way for your campers to relieve some of that early holiday season stress.

1. Halloween Trick or Treat Circuits

Work hard on your ‘sprinting away from zombies’ skills to be the pair with the treats – because the tricks aren’t so nice!

Before the workout make sure you come up with a nice set of ‘tricks’ and ‘treats’ for your campers. You’ll be splitting them into small groups to work together to finish this one.

Designer: Stephanie Jannati
Drill Length: 20+ minutes
Drill Type: Partner Mini Circuits
Equipment Needed: Tyres, Bands
Environment Needed: Room for 20m sprints
Drill Link: Halloween Trick or Treat Workout

Social distancing tip: Instead of placing your trick or treat cards into bags, have them spread out face down on the floor for your campers to choose from.

2. The Halloween Workout

Take your campers through this smashing pumpkin workout where they’ll meet with Frankenstein and zombies in the circuit!

It’s a great blend of team games and a really tough workout.

Designer: Jess Dietrich
Drill Length: 45+ minutes
Drill Type: Timekeeper Circuit
Equipment Needed: Pumpkins (or medballs), plastic skeletons x 2, cones
Environment Needed: Room for a timekeeper run
Drill Link: The Halloween Workout

3. Pumpkin Bootcamp

Promote perfect partner participation possessing pumpkins! Say that five times fast.

This is a fun partner workout that features a couple of novel I Go You Go AMRAP drills.

Designer: Kyle Wood
Drill Length: 45 minutes
Drill Type: Partner Circuits
Equipment Needed: Pumpkins (or medballs), mats, cones
Environment Needed: Room for 20m runs/sprints
Drill Link: Pumpkin Bootcamp

4. Slamaggedon

Slamaggedon is coming as you fight to survive the monsters and the zombies!

Pairs will get 2 minutes to go as hard as they can on each station. Each station has a fun Halloween twist to it, including an obiligatory pumpkin smashing one.

Designer: Kyle Wood
Drill Length: 45 minutes
Drill Type: Partner Drill Circuit
Equipment Needed: Battling Ropes, cones, mats, dead dalls or medballs will do
Environment Needed: Lots of room to run – an oval or open field
Drill Link: Slamaggedon

What do you have a planned for Halloween this year? Share your favourite spooky drill in the comments here.

Theresa Prior

Theresa Prior has a mission to bring Mums and women together in a safe and supportive environment that just so happens to have fun fitness sessions at it’s core. She has been running her own personal training business since 2013. Theresa helps her clients understand that all aspects of their health are equally important.