At Fitness Troops, our principles are a big part of who we are. To us, they are common sense; essentials pieces to any healthy relationship. We use them as way to guide our business. We use them as reminders of the behavior we want to demonstrate every day.

Our guiding principles:

• Partnership
• Dedication
• Honesty & Integrity
• Enjoyment

Partnership

Exercising and maintaining a healthy diet are much simpler habits to maintain if you’ve got a partner. That’s a role we intend to fill. Don’t forget your fellow boot camp troops either. Participating in the boot camp already gives you common interests and an informal support and motivational system.

Dedication

Getting fit and staying fit. Eating healthy and staying healthy. Both require dedication. In becoming your partner, we’re dedicated to you forming good habits around eating and exercising. We dedicate our efforts to removing hurdles to your success. We won’t always have the answers, but we are dedicated to working with you to get issues resolved.

Honesty & Integrity

The fitness industry has so much shouting going on about how best to lose weight and who best to do it with. The shouting and claims make it hard to believe who’s telling the truth. We won’t guarantee you achieve your goals. We cannot guarantee you’ll lose 30 lbs in 30 days or be ready to run a 10K marathon in 2 weeks time. If you don’t show the dedication, you won’t succeed. If we don’t challenge you appropriately and give you the tools you need to succeed, we both fail. We always strive to “give it to you straight.” That may mean we push you to stretch out some of your fitness goals over a longer period of time. If we cannot provide you with the tools you need to win, it could mean we even suggest other alternatives (much as it would pain us) that don’t involve us.

Enjoyment

Are we on your wavelength yet? We believe everyone wants the tenets we’ve espoused here in any business (and even personal) relationship. So our final tenet is that the experience is enjoyable. What’s the best job in the world? The job that doesn’t feel like work because you enjoy it so much. If you aren’t enjoying the experience, it’s that much harder to continue to succeed. If we’re not enjoying the experience, we’re failing you and ourselves.