Without goals, no one would pogo stick the Appalachian Trail or train a flock of carrier pigeons to deliver meat pies to unsuspecting haberdashers. Today's Groupon helps you achieve myriad goals with a fitness trainer's expertise and motivation. For $30, new clients get an eight-class, two-week Dynamics Workshop fitness course at BTB CrossFit & BootCamp, a $150 value. Redeem your Groupon at any of BTB CrossFit’s three Atlanta-area locations in Buckhead, Vinings-Smyrna, and Poncey-Highlands. The latter of these locations was Atlanta magazine's Best Gym, and Citysearchers called it the Best Workout in 2009.

Eating a spicy burrito or betting a pristine collection of Choose Your Own Adventure books on a poker hand may work up a sweat, but it doesn’t qualify as proper exercise. BTB CrossFit & BootCamp provides a vibrant environment where upbeat members benefit from a training program that incorporates multiple disciplines. Eager clients trim their figures and harvest their muscle farms through gymnastics, weightlifting, and plyometric training, as their muscle fibers and muscle ears absorb encouraging words. Workouts are quick and intense, like a game of Galaga, and mimic everyday movements such as pushing, pulling, running, throwing, jumping, dragging, and mixing cake batter while shouting at a perched phone.

The Dynamics Workshop exposes participants to the basic principles and movements that are employed by CrossFit. Sessions begin with a proper warm-up and segue into a daily workout that develops techniques necessary for future workouts, ensuring a progressive fitness plan that eschews stagnation and disorienting feelings of déjà vu. Along the way, the attentive CrossFit instructors will lend their eagle eyes and people words to ensure you perform exercises correctly, reducing injury risks and pointing out untied shoelaces. Over the course of two weeks and eight classes, participants will experience noticeable results and pencil in additional time in front of the mirror at home.

Acquiring a fit physique takes more than daily couch sessions with a pair of hand grips or burping the alphabet to build stamina. BTB CrossFit & BootCamp offers helpful instruction and an expertly developed training program that nurtures proper technique without the use of PowerPoint presentations. Call ahead or email to reserve your spot.

Reviews

Atlanta magazine named BTB CrossFit & BootCamp Best Gym for its Poncey-Highlands location, and Citysearchers voted it the Best Workout in 2009. Google Mappers and Citysearchers agree and give five-star averages to BTB's various locations and regimens, and Daily Candy had this to say:

• Take a towel and an open mind; leave the technique, form, and movement coaching to the super-fit (yet super-friendly) staff. Imagine gung ho, smiling instructors giving tutorials on everything from push-ups to kettlebells. And not a "pansy ass" or angry whistle tweet anywhere. – Daily Candy
• I am a long time customer of the btb bootcamp. It has changed my life. I have made so many new friends, and have a new found look on life (and on waking up early). There are more than one bootcamps in the area, and believe it or not, I have tried two. Btb has such a great group of instructors that motivate you to always push past your comfort zone, and you really get such great results. Give it a try. – PP, Google Maps
• BTB approaches fitness in a totally different way than most chain gyms. I can't say enough about the community surrounding the place. Excellent people all in the common pursuit of peak fitness. Its helped me bust through a fitness plateau and get in the best shape of my life. – ryan5656, Citysearch