Besides the ineffective jogging and countless useless abdominal crunches, the thing I find most irritating about other Vancouver boot camps is when they use the agility ladder.
I saw a Vancouver boot camp program using the agility ladder with their customers the other night and it made me sad for all the customers that signed up for the program thinking they were going to burn fat and get in shape, only to have their time and effort flushed down the toilet on a drill that has absolutely no place in a fat-burning exercise program.
The problem with the agility ladder is that unless you’ve got the speed and agility of professional athlete, there’s no way you can navigate through the ladder intensely enough to actually produce any significant fat-burning results. You might as well just play hopscotch with your kid because you’ll be getting about the same amount of cardiovascular workout and fat-burning from playing hopscotch as you would from doing agility ladder drills.
Agility ladders should be used by athletes looking to — wait for it — improve their agility. If you’re looking to burn maximum fat with the most time-efficient workouts possible, avoid the agility ladder at all costs.
