Getting in shape, much like speed-reading Russian literature, requires concentration and the strength to forge ahead through painful, protracted inner monologues. Forge ahead toward fitness with today’s Groupon: for $89, you get 12 one-hour boot-camp sessions at Star Fitness Solutions (a $180 value). Choose between sessions from 5:30 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. Each session is held at 4457 Bethany Road, Building B in Mason.

Star Fitness Solutions' team of exercise authorities develops supportive relationships with each client when guiding them through a series of fitness camps determined to firm up physiques. A preworkout evaluation underlines each client's personal fitness needs and deep-fried tendencies before he or she steps into an extensive three-day-a-week (12 total sessions) boot camp that eschews guttural barks and steel-toed boots for motivational shouts of encouragement and complimentary T-shirts. Clients tote their own exercise mats, towels, and water bottles to each workout, which consists of a sundry sweat-spurring slate of cardiovascular routines designed to build resistance, agility, and flexibility and produce shape-slimming results that can begin to show in as early as one week.