There are lots of different types of boot camp workouts: bodyweight workouts, circuit training workouts, interval training workouts, challenge workouts, partner workouts, etc. Countless ways to have fun and effective boot camp workouts. But one particular component must be present for a workout to be considered a boot camp workout: it must take place outdoors. There’s no such thing as an indoor boot camp workout.

Fitness boot camp workouts are popular because people love getting outdoors and working out in the fresh air rather than exercising at a stuffy gym or health club where you’re stuck breathing in other people’s B.O. and using machines that haven’t been properly wiped up and are still covered in the previous user’s sweat. Yuck. No thanks, I’ll take outdoor boot camp workouts please.

But many gyms realize that boot camp programs are wildly popular, and therefore they promote their own facility as running boot camp workouts indoors at their health club. Bullshit. That’s not a boot camp workout. That’s just a generic group exercise class incorrectly marketed as boot camp in order to deviously try to capitalize on the tremendous popularity of fitness boot camps. Don’t be fooled.