Weight Loss Retreat Or Boot Camp?

Differences Between a Weight Loss Retreat and a Boot Camp

Weight loss retreats have been growing in the past 10 years in the UK, offering a new alternative to residential boot camps. Both courses come with their own benefits and knowing what each can offer will help you chose what is right for you personally.

How Do They Differ?

Weight loss retreats are residential courses offering a retreat like experience focusing on several factors of weight loss and lifestyle change.

Like boot camps, weight loss retreats provide a full exercise schedule in order for you to leave with kickstart weight loss results. However, taking a less harsh approach allowing you to have more choice and flexibility if you need. This allows accountability and ownership in your results, proving to yourself you have the motivation to move past the course with a new exercise regime. This promotes sustainability, the main goal of weight loss retreats.

Boot camps and weight loss retreats differ with long term goals. The regime of a weight loss retreat includes a variety of workshops, exercise and nutrition. Focusing on how weight loss is impacted by mindset, nutrition, exercise, knowledge and tools to create sustainable lifestyle change. Boot camps often report of providing immediate non progressive results. Once you leave a boot camp you haven’t got a lot of tools to progress onto making changes within your routine, making it a lot harder to keep the weight off.

The environment at weight loss retreats tends to be more supportive and gentler compared to boot camps. Boot camps take more of a military approach, which for some is more effective in terms of motivation and for some it isn’t.

What is Best?

Picking a boot camp or weight loss retreat depends on your goals. People may opt for a boot camp if they have more short term aims. For example, if you're getting married and want to drop weight quickly rather than prioritising long-term sustainability a boot camp may be best for you.

If your focus is making long term lifestyle changes and learning how to create sustainable and progressive weight loss results, then a weight loss retreat is probably best for you. Giving a more rounded outlook on weight loss and lifestyle change.

To learn more about what FitFarms weight loss retreat can offer for you, have a read of what a typical day schedule looks like on site at our residential program.