Fitness boot camps entice recruits with the promise of a fun workout, firm body and increased self-esteem through cross-training programs, but there are issues that new participants need to be ...

Gold’s Gym: Full-body boot camp classes where you will run through a series of cardio, stability, strength and core-training exercises. GoodLife Fitness: Boot camp and team training 6 week camps.

Hacker You, the first tech boot camp to open its doors, began with 30 part-time students in 2012. In 2017, it expects to graduate nearly 1000 in its full and part-time programs.

3. Your heart rate goes way up Since boot-camp classes tend to mix short breaks into the workout, they’re considered a form of high-intensity interval training (HIIT).

Classes are filled with many first-timers or people who haven’t exercised in a while, especially in January, he points out. “This is not triathlete boot camp; this is regular-people boot camp.

Boot camps typically run three or four months and cost roughly $12,000, though in some cases as much as $20,000, according to Course Report, an industry publication.

That doesn’t mean the rest of the boot camps are doomed. In fact, there are at least 95 other coding boot camp companies in the U.S., and some say they are still growing.

Boot camps like BloomTech (formerly Lambda School) and Flatiron are rethinking their approaches. Boot camps will increasingly focus on job training rather than on an academic coding education.