Lauren Barton, 24 , Communications Consultant, Ashgrove
Starting full time work last year gave me (what I thought was) the perfect excuse to stop exercising - it became so easy to start work early, finish late and therefore convince myself that I no longer had any time to do anything for myself. So I initially joined boot camp with the hope that I would get a bit fitter, change my attitude to exercise, and possibly lose a bit of weight in the process.
I achieved all these goals and more - not only did I tone up and lose weight, I met some great people and actually started to look forward to the early morning wake ups to see what was in store for us that day! Four weeks ago, I never thought that I would say that I nearly made it to level 10 on the beep test, ran up over 1,000 stairs, and carried tyres all over Bowman Park - but I did, and I LOVED it!