I turned around, paused and looked in the mirror, and every one of them were down, knocking them out. I was shocked. I've never been any type of joiner. Then Rice stumbled into the 24 Hour Fitness facility on Van Ness early one morning last July. He had taken a similar class at his wife's gym and was intrigued by Weichert's class.
People are bored with old-fashioned gym routines.
Jardine's squads, for example, can jump out of Gorilla's Chestnut Street gym, charge up the Lyon Street stairs, run up and down children's slides or push up a sand hill in the Presidio. They don't want to be the one not to do it. That's heftier than most fitness centers, but Weichert and boot-camp recruits say the results and camaraderie are well worth it. It's a good form of competition. Despite the business metaphors, boot camps are more about being more physically fit, Robfogel and Rice say, than besting the next person or bulking up to wow the opposite sex.