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Fitness with the Sarge

The sun hasn't come up yet and Sarge is whipping his troops into shape.

"If you ate something I'm not particularly a fan of, I will make you do pushups."

This is Sarge's bootcamp. 5 days a week. Class starts at 5:50. There are no innovative new techniques. No fancy machines. Just jumping jacks, situps, running, push ups and pull ups - and a little extra motivation from the Sarge.

"Don't walk in my class, move those butts come on now!"

"There's no number, it's pain. It's when you cannot do another one, then you know you're done. Come on come on!"

"Hurt everywhere pretty much. I take Motrin every day before I come here." Laurie Steinberg organized this class, then roped her friends into it.

"Every morning that I wake up at 5:50 or 5:30 in the morning to get to the 5:50 class, I think I'm crazy. I don't know what I did, and the people that I got involved are gonna hate me for a while, but come summertime when they're putting their swimsuits on, hopefully love me again."

"I need bodies out here, if you're not sweating I'm screaming."

Bootcamper Robyn Cohen said, "When it's over and I go home and I've done my exercise for the day and I feel good, I feel good that I ran. We ran 2.7 miles yesterday and that felt good ."

The Sarge thing comes pretty naturally to Patrick Avon. He says he spent 5 years in the avy 2 and a half years aboard an aircraft carrier. "What we do is we take a person we kind of hold them in the hand and we give them a little swat in the rear end at the same time. Our goal is to take a person that sits on the couch and help them get to the level of fitness they need to by having a little fun and a little comraderie."

"Come on pull breathe, breathe, breathe."

"The person that joins a gym is a person that's already motivated and they need that environment. They like the equipment, they like the convenience. The person that comes out to the Sarge's program needs somebody to push them. We're accountable to someone for everything in our life except for our health and our fitness. We give you that accountability."

You can find out more about the bootcamp workout from the attached link.