Urban Extreme Fitness has been assigned a simple mission: Provide well-rounded, military style cardiovascular and calisthenic reistance training to the civilian public. Through a methodology utilizing high intensity, anaerobic exercises, and stamina building aerobic exercises, you increase your strength, endurance, balance, and willpower. You will push yourself past the limits of what you thought you could do, and you will push those limits themselves further and further back. We have two levels of six-week classes:
Boot Camp is an intense training program designed to push the general population beyond the normal call of exercise duty. You will sweat. You will hurt. You will get into great shape. Boot Camp is suitable for anyone, no matter your starting fitness level. Boot Camp meets for one hour, thrice each week.
Boot Camp is the next step. If basic training is not enough for you, if you need more pain, sweat, and triumph, then Warrior Camp is for you. The class combines muscle strengthening exercises, an extensive plan to heighten cardiovascular fitness, and, most importantly, a test of determination.
Five years ago, personal trainer and now graduate student at the Washington University School of Physical Therapy Tom Barbata finished his military service and went out to find employment in corporate America. After realizing that this was not his calling, he made the transition from a deskjob to making good use of the fitness experience he gained while serving in the U. S. Army. "I fought a weight problem early on," recalls Tom. "After I got into shape I wanted to help others achieve the same." Before leaving the Army, Tom worked as the weight control non-commissioned officer for those in his company who did not meet Army weight standards or could not pass the Army's Physical Fitness Test.
According to Tom, his bootcamp has evolved over the past four years. "I am always looking for new challenges that people will be apprehensive of at first and happy afterwards," he says of his camp's philosophy. "There are mornings even I dread going to the class, but when I step on the field, the adrenaline kicks in, and I want to see how hard we can push ourselves that day."
