Cones And Hurdles Are Pointless For Fat Loss

After my recent post on how agility ladders are pointless for fat loss, I wasn’t thinking I’d be doing a follow-up post on the same topic so quickly, but Thursday night I heard a story that I can’t resist sharing with you.

If you read my post on agility ladders, I commented on how I recently saw a Vancouver boot camp program doing agility ladder drills with their overweight customers. This is a boot camp that markets itself as a fat-burning exercise program. The idea of having overweight people do agility ladder drills to burn fat is ridiculous.

Anyway, I ranted about it the other night when I wrote that blog post. It felt good getting it off my chest and I figured this was a topic I probably wouldn’t complain about again for a while. Wrong.

So last Thursday night when I arrived at my evening boot camp, one of my customers said she noticed the other Vancouver boot camp program doing agility drills with their customers, and she saw a women have a pretty nasty fall while trying to navigate through a set of agility cones and hurdles the boot camp had setup. This goofy fat-burning agility training workout was taking place on concrete.

I cringe whenever see average men and women doing agility training during a workout designed to produce fat-burning and general fitness. There is absolutely no reason to include those types of drills in a boot camp workout program geared towards burning fat and improved fitness. With average people doing agility training at a fitness boot camp, the risk of injury is high, and agility training is completely pointless for fat loss.