This drill is an entry to our 2020 Bootcamp Ideas Workout Competition. It was sent in by Kevin Richardson.

Take a Chill Pill – Hero Style

Drill Length: 8 minutes per round

Set Up: This can be in-person or a virtual set up. Campers just need their dumbbells (or body weight movements)

Each Round is repeated 4 times (4 sets).  Each round ends with 3-5 “Hero’s” who finish first. Those campers will increase their reps next set.

Hero reps increase by 10, 5 and 2 reps respectively. If you are not the Hero, keep your reps the same as previous round

Goal: Everyone has a chance to be the HERO.  Fast campers might have a lot of high reps in the later rounds so slower campers can be the hero in set 3 or 4.

Round 1:

• 50 mountain climbers
• 25 Squat Jacks
• 10 Plank up/downs

Give campers 25-35 seconds to recover, reset the reps for the “hero” group reminding them to go to 60/30/12 reps.

If done virtually you can just see 1 screen and have them pop up to knock out star jumps until you call Time! Those campers who are done will be the hero!

Round 2:

• 50 Touchdowns
• 25 1 DB Push Jack
• 10 Hand Release Pushup

Round 3:

• 50 Hack Sacks (or high knee)
• 25 Quadruped Row
• 10 Burpees

Round 4:

• 50 Flutter Kicks
• 25 Ground Rotations (cross body mountain climbers, more twist, less speed)
• 10 Sit Ups

Round 5:

• 50 Plank Hip Taps
• 25 Skaters
• 10 Plyo Lunge

About the entrant:

Trainer and Director for Camp Gladiator for the past 9 years.  I love competitive workouts in groups of 4-6 and specialize in running Mega workouts of 75-150 campers in a creative and effective way! Connect with me to collab on Instagram.

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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.