Week 22: Small Group Boot Camp vs. Semi-Private Training
“Hey Mary, last week after our coaching session I forgot to mention that the Semi-Private Training will be open for enrollment in a month. If the class times work for your schedule, you should consider joining it.”
“I had meant to ask you about the Semi-Private program. How is it different?” Mary replied.
Here are the 2 key differences:
Exercise Programming
The Small Group Boot Camp is a standardized training program with exercise modifications to challenge beginners and veterans. It is structured to focus on either muscular endurance or hypertrophy. Although the program is adaptable, there are limitations on certain aspects of training like the exercise split, training volume, specific progressions, tempo, and personalization of exercises.
The Semi-Private Training Program overcomes these limitations by providing a personalized training program in a group setting. While personalization isn’t always necessary, at a certain point a personalized program delivers better results than a standardized program.
Coaching
During the Small Group Boot Camp, you learn the weight lifting fundamentals including the 6 basic movement patterns, correct exercise form, and how to implement a basic progressive overload.
In the Semi-Private Training Program the coaching goes more in-depth. Here you’ll learn how to execute the same exercise differently to target specific muscle groups, utilize advanced lifting techniques like drop sets, compound sets and going until failure, or maybe even use a certain lifting tempo to emphasize the eccentric movement of an exercise.
“If you decide to join the program, I’d recommend starting with an upper body/lower body split where we emphasize using the barbell. This would increase your volume of exercise to better address your current goals of building more muscle and bone density.” Coach suggested.
“I’m definitely interested! I’ve seen the Semi-Private members using the barbells and I’ve wanted to learn. When did you say the program starts?”
“Next month. I’ll let you know when enrollment opens in a couple weeks.”
“Alright. Thanks Coach!”
