I hear a lot of fitness professionals taking their turns bashing Bootcamps and I just wanted to stand up in the defense of the shunned Bootcamps out there. As everyone knows, it doesn’t matter where you go to get a good workout, it is all about the Instruction. Bootcamps are by no means the end all be all, in fact, they should be the beginning of your fitness journey. You have to start somewhere, and not many people can afford the luxury of hiring a personal trainer. Bootcamps are a great place to start out because a lot of people are turned off by the douchebag aura of a gym so they just don’t go. You meet a different kind of fitness enthusiast when you go outdoors in in-climate weather and are running, doing push-ups, air squats, and many other calisthenic exercises that you’ve never done before. It encourages you to push yourself harder than you would staring at that treadmill draped in dirty laundry down in your basement. When you talk to the other participants, they are proud people, you can read the camaraderie written on their faces. They meet up for drinks, dinners, and other social events because…