Do NOT join the fit body boot camp! Your initial reaction may be to stop reading after that first statement but I urge you to read on. My name is Andrea, I recently turned 30 years old, have two children, and decided to get fit again. I found the fit body boot camp online, and foolishly believed their claim of a “free” 6 week boot camp. The first day I went to the information session, I quickly realized that this was in fact not free at all and in actuality quite expensive. They need $500 so you can prove that you are committed to their class and to following the plan they’ve laid out. That alone sent up a major red flag, but again I was committed to getting healthy and fit again, so I paid the money, with the promise you get the money back when you reach your goal. Then comes the weight loss goal, now normally, you have a bit of input on what your weight loss goal is, but not with the fit body boot camp. The head trainer/ owner sets the goal for you, in my case it was 25 pounds or 6% body fat in 6 weeks. Yes you read that correctly, just over 4 pounds a week, over 6 weeks. Now if you do a simple google search of how much weight is safe to lose in a week, NOWHERE will you find anyone saying that it is safe to lose 4.16 pounds a week. Everyone agrees that a safe weight loss goal is 1-2 pounds a week. When the head trainer was asked this very thing he responded ‘no that’s not true, you can lose more than that’. Well I was amazed! Here in Calgary Alberta, I had found a revolutionary trainer who, in spite of everything you read and talk to people about, has found a safe way to lose 25 pounds in 6 weeks! I couldn’t wait to see the meal plan that he provided for his revolutionary training method. Now I am a vegetarian, my husband and I made the decision go go veg more for health reasons than save the animals, but we are very committed to this lifestyle. I informed the trainer of this, and was happy to hear that this wasn’t a problem, they have a program for vegetarians, but at the first session he didn’t have the vegetarian meal plan, so he gave me the regular one, and told me he would email me my meal plan soon. Now when running a scam of this kind, it probably wasn’t the brightest idea to give me the regular meal plan, because when I was sent the vegetarian meal plan it was easy to compare the two. His hilarious “vegetarian” meal plan just simply deleted the meat options, and substituted them with tofu...ok now I am not an nutrition expert, but it is pretty easy for anyone to see that absolutely no time of effort was put into this meal plan. Now comes the workouts, and I will be the first one to admit that they were great, I enjoyed the workouts very much. The trainers (not the head trainer but the ones that actually did the workouts with us) were awesome, supportive and quite knowledgeable, this part and ONLY this part of the 6 weeks was worthwhile. But back to everything else, we were informed that with our “free” boot camp, we had to attend a mandatory
sales meeting, so the head trainer/ owner could pitch a membership to us. I attended this meeting, knowing already full well at this point that I wasn’t going to be signing up. However I let him do his pitch, and he was very nice, supportive and pleasant during his pitch. That is right
up until I told him I wasn’t signing the contract he put in front of me. His attitude totally changed as soon as I told him I wasn’t signing up, it went from supportive friend to used car salesman very quickly. Then comes Saturday, final weigh in day, I lost 9.5 pounds and 3% body fat, a
great start to getting healthy, but not even close to my unrealistic goal and nowhere close to getting my $500 back for reaching my goal. So that in short was my experience with the fit body boot camp, I am out $500 because I wasn’t able to reach a goal that was impossible to reach.
But the best part of the whole thing is, writing this review was another mandatory part of the boot camp. I hope no more people fall victim to this scam, I really hope this review will serve as a warning! :)