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At Fitstyler, we encourage clients to bring their dogs to boot camp, on the proviso that the dog doesn’t interfere with other Fitmates, or pose a risk to the safety of Fitmates or other park users.

Well, during our 6am boot camp session at Edinburgh Garden we have 3 regular four-legged friends who join their owners for some exercise.

As our trainer, Anthony, was explaining the next exercise for the session, however, James & Jess’s pet Kelpie Chariot decided to literally fly into Anthony’s leg and knock him down!

Ironically, Anthony fell flat into a sit-up position.

At first everyone was a little shocked as he fell on top of Chariot (totally unavoidable and unexpected). Nevertheless, both dog and Anthony were fine and it was all laughs and giggles after that.

It’s great that dog owners are happy to participate in exercise classes with their dogs.

Written by Andrew Talati

We have had numerous requests from our Fitmates regarding a take home DIY (do it yourself) Boot Camp program.

You can use water bottles to mark the exercise stations or bananas if you have a fruit shop handy:))

Just remember when undertaking any form of rigorous exercise to get medical clearance first, high blood pressure, age, cholesterol levels and other key indicators must be taken into consideration.

This program is designed around the principles of interval training whereby you undertake high intensity cardiovascular based exercise for short periods of time followed by a resistance based exercise.

This keeps the heart elevated for short periods of time which really challenges the cardiovascular and respiratory systems.