Fitness Boot Camp Austin TX

Want to know more about Fighting Fit Boot Camp in Austin TX? Here’s what makes Fighting Fit² Boot Camp™ unique…

Fighting Fit² Boot Camp™ is an innovative and exciting boot camp weight loss and conditioning program.

It combines outdoor fitness instruction with the same martial arts conditioning methods pro fighters use. This program is now being offered by Licensed Facilities across the United States.

The program was conceived and created by self defense and fitness instructor Mike Massie. It’s the first program of its kind to combine outdoor fitness training with martial arts conditioning, so participants can maximize their results in the program.

Coach Massie, Fighting Fit Austin Boot Camp Instructor

Coach Mike Massie is the owner of Fighting Fit of Austin Texas and is the founder and co-creator of Fighting Fit Boot Camp™. Coach Massie holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Health Science and is a Certified Personal Trainer.

He is a former U.S. Army combat medic, and has been training in the martial arts for over twenty-five years. Coach Massie holds black belt or instructor ranks in several different martial arts systems.

As a certified personal trainer, Coach Massie trained Baltimore Ravens Kicker and NFL record-holder Matt Stover in the off-season preceding his breakout 1999 season. In addition, he has trained dozens of his students to win medals in regional, state, and national AAU championship competitions.

Coach Massie has been teaching group fitness classes and providing personal fitness training since 1997. He also taught fitness kickboxing classes for three years as an adjunct faculty member in the kinesiology department at Southwestern University.  During his time at SU, his fitness kick boxing class was the most popular program in the department.

He is also a certified women’s self-defense instructor, the co-creator of the Self Defense Black Belt Program™, and has given numerous lectures and seminars on the topics of crime prevention and child safety for the local community. Coach Massie resides in Austin, Texas with his wife of over ten years, Mrs. Deanna Massie.

Q & A With Mike

Q: How did you decide to get in your line of work?

A: I started training clients in my martial arts studio because I came across a lot of people who wanted to combine fitness training with martial arts. I found it helped my clients alleviate boredom and that the ones who did it regularly got results much faster. So, I kept doing it, and eventually the workouts I’d developed became the basis for the Fighting Fit Boot Camp and Kickboxing classes.

Q: Why does your workout stand out from others who do what you do?

A: You’ll be trained by highly experienced instructors in small group classes. That means you’ll get expert individualized attention in every single class.

In addition, the program itself is very unique. A lot of the martial arts fitness programs that have cropped up since I created Fighting Fit are just “MMA light”, but that’s really not what we’re about. Instead, I’ve taken the fitness aspects of martial arts training that work best for dropping weight, and combined them with sound exercise science and healthy eating habits. To my knowledge, I was the first person to combine all three elements into a single program.

Last and most importantly, I’ve actually struggled with my weight so I know what my clients are going through. After being a life-long athlete, about six or seven years ago I developed a chronic auto-immune disorder (rheumatoid arthritis). Due to the illness, I went from working out from 1.5 to 3 hours a day to sleeping 14 hours a day and working out maybe once a week.

As you might imagine, I gained a ton of weight and ballooned up to about 50 pounds over my “fit” weight. It was embarrassing, to say the least. The tipping point was when a client gave me a portrait they made of me as a present, and another client commented, “At least they could have left off the double-chin.” Ouch!

So, I started slowly changing my eating habits and working my way back into health. I learned how to eat when you have metabolism issues and autoimmune issues, and I started learning how to get more done in less time in my workouts, since two-hour workouts were out the window with the RA.

Those workouts and the eating program I followed allowed me to lose 35 pounds over three months, and became the foundation for the Fighting Fit workouts and nutrition program.

Prior to that experience, I never understood what my clients were going through when they struggled with weight loss. Now, I know what they’re going through and how to help them.

I think that being able to empathize with people who aren’t natural athletes or who are facing health challenges makes us stand out from other programs that are taught by trainers who have never had those experiences. Nothing against those trainers, but until you’ve lived it you just don’t know how hard it is.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: I enjoy seeing people reach their weight loss and fitness goals. It’s extremely rewarding to see people come in with goals they haven’t been able to reach, then show them how to reach their fitness goals in just a few months time.

Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What’s your answer?

“What do you think about ‘X’ diet?” And, my pat answer is that fad diets are always going to result in yo-yo dieting and rebound weight loss… then I introduce them to a more balanced and healthy approach to eating for weight loss. It works with 100% of the clients who stick with it.

Q: What advice do you have for someone looking to hire a fitness trainer?

Find a trainer or fitness instructor that you can relate to. Someone who has never struggled with their weight or overcome health issues to lose weight has no idea what the average person is going through. So, look for an instructor who can empathize with your situation, because they’ll be a better fit for you overall.

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