Any post. Any field. Same standard.
We built an adaptive fitness program on a patch of grass behind the basketball courts in Ewa Beach. Veterans train free. Wheelchair users, amputees, visually impaired athletes and anyone working around an injury train in the same session as everyone else.
At the 80th National Convention in Orlando, AMVETS adopted Resolution 27-10, formally endorsing this program as a national model and authorizing a standardized framework for departments and posts to implement. This page is that framework.
AMVETS Hawaii Adaptive Fitness & Sports Program — National Endorsement and Scalable Implementation. Submitted by the AMVETS Department of Hawaii, adopted at department level on 23 April 2026, carried to the National Convention in Orlando, and passed on the floor.
Quoted from the adopted resolution. It was referred to the National Programs Committee and is implemented in accordance with AMVETS National policies.
Read the operative sentence again: endorsed as a national model. That is the standing this program now carries into any post or department that adopts it — including yours.
Participants build strength, mobility and confidence, and they do it in a room that treats rehabilitation and independence as the point rather than a side effect. The physical result is real. The reason people stay is that they stopped training alone.
A post already has the two hardest things to buy: ground, and veterans who trust the people on it. Everything else on this page is logistics.
This is not a pilot looking for a first site. It has been running on a field in Ewa Beach for years, and the resolution passed on the strength of it.
Across Big Tire Bootcamp in just over five years, on the way to a stated goal of 100,000.
From the athletes who train on Warrior Field, adaptive and able-bodied alike.
Permanently, for every veteran and active duty service member. Free at the door, every session, for as long as the post runs it.
Passed on the floor at the 80th National Convention in Orlando.
Serving disabled veterans is the reason. It is not the only return. A commander taking this to a board needs the rest of the argument, so here it is.
Two groups walk onto a field who will not walk into a business meeting. Post-9/11 veterans and active duty who want to train and bring their spouses. And veterans decades out of service working around a knee replacement, a back, a stroke or a balance problem — for whom this is mobility, independence and staying on their feet. Same session, same hour, scaled to each of them. A post running this recruits from both ends of its own membership instead of one.
Veterans and active duty train free — that is the condition, and it does not move. Everyone else in the community pays. Our published rates are $59 a month individual and $99 a month family. In your post those dues are your post's revenue. They fund your equipment, your coach and your hall.
The app counts every check-in under your post. That produces the annual participation summary the resolution asks for, and it is the same page you hand a grant officer, a sponsor or your department. No post gets funded on the strength of a program it cannot measure.
Spouses, kids, neighbors and first responders training on post ground on a fixed weekly schedule. For most posts that is more non-veteran foot traffic than any other single activity — and every one of them now knows where you are and what you do.
A post that runs this becomes the place in its area where a veteran who cannot use a commercial gym can still train — and where the rest of the community pays for the privilege of training beside them.
Less than posts usually assume. The most common reason a post never starts is believing it needs a building.
Grass, a lot, a pavilion, a corner of the parking area. No building, no floor, no mirrors. We train outdoors on a field behind the basketball courts.
One person willing to get certified. Not a team. We will tell you exactly which certifications matter and which are noise.
Two sessions to start. An hour each, plus setup. A post that tries to open six days a week burns its lead out inside a quarter.
Non-negotiable, and the part most posts get wrong. We recommend carriers, send you our waiver and intake forms, and tell you exactly what to ask. Your state's law and your own legal advisor decide the final wording.
In order. A post that buys equipment before it names a lead ends up with tires in a shed.
Bring it to your commander and your board. Ask for use of the ground, permission to run under the post's insurance, and a line in the minutes. Nothing else yet — no budget, no equipment.
One name, one phone number, one person accountable. This is the single biggest predictor of whether a post is still running in year two. It does not have to be the coach.
Our own Adaptive & Inclusive Coach Certification covers the adaptive work end to end — free to AMVETS coaches. A recognized CPT for the fundamentals and current CPR/AED alongside it. We review the coach's plan before your first session.
Confirm coverage with your carrier in writing. We will point you to the insurers other posts have used and send you the waiver we run on Warrior Field — then have your own counsel review it against your state's law before a single participant signs it. Every participant signs before they touch anything. Set your medical-clearance rule and never make an exception to it.
Same days, same hours, every week, whether two people show or twenty. Consistency is the whole product in the first six months. Do not move the time to chase attendance.
We create your post inside BTB Strong. Your members get free accounts, your coach gets the session library and the scaling guide, and your check-ins start counting from day one.
We are on a call before it and after it. You send us how it went, what broke, and who showed. Then we do that again at thirty, sixty and ninety days.
A structured walk-through of how a session actually runs: the warm-up, the station rotation, the scaling calls, and how to coach an adaptive athlete in a mixed group without slowing anyone down.
The workout templates, station cards and progressions we run on Warrior Field, issued to your coach under the program. You are not writing programming from scratch, and you are not guessing at what a session should look like.
How a squat becomes a seated press, a run becomes a push, a carry gets a different grip. Written for a coach who has never worked with a wheelchair user before.
Free member accounts for your veterans, check-in tracking, the workout library and your post's own roster. Your numbers, your post, one place.
Waiver, intake, medical clearance and first-visit checklist — the documents we run, plus the carriers we recommend. Your counsel adapts them to your state. You do not start from a blank page.
One call a month with the other post leads. Between calls you call us direct — a phone number that a person answers.
We publish one at the end of every quarter — wins, athlete stories, event results and what changed in the programming. Your post's results run in it, and you get the format to send to your own members, your board and your department.
Your veterans create free accounts. Their check-ins, their programming and their progress live in one place, under your post. You stop guessing at attendance and start reporting real numbers — to your board, to your department, and to anyone who asks what the program is doing.
Those numbers are also what makes a post fundable. Nobody sponsors a program that cannot say how many people it served last month.
All fourteen deliverables above — onboarding, the library, the scaling guide, the forms, the app, the calls, the reviews. Your post pays for what it puts on the ground, and every dollar of that goes to a certifying body, a carrier or a supplier.
Adaptive Training Academy for the adaptive work, a recognized CPT for the fundamentals, current CPR/AED. Paid to the certifying bodies. We tell you which ones matter and which are noise.
Coverage confirmed in writing with your own carrier, on your state's terms, reviewed by your own counsel. Paid to your carrier.
Tires, sleds, ram bars, med balls, sandbags and timers — the gear a session actually runs on. We tell you exactly what to buy first and what can wait a year. Source it wherever you get the best price.
It does not have to come out of your operating budget. It usually should not.
Veterans and active duty train free. Everyone else in your community pays your post directly, at whatever rate your board sets. Ours are $59 a month individual and $99 family. Every dollar of it stays with your post.
Local businesses sponsor adaptive athletes by the seat. We run this for our own field and the whole structure is published on our sponsor page — levels, amounts and what a sponsor actually receives. Copy it.
See how ours is built →Adaptive fitness for disabled veterans is one of the more fundable things a post can put in front of a donor or a grant officer, and your participation numbers are the proof they ask for.
Same terms whether you bring one post or twenty. Start with a pilot post, prove it for two quarters, then add the rest on the same basis.
One thing, and it comes from the adopted text rather than from us: your post files an annual participation summary. The app generates it for you.
Disclosure. Big Tire Bootcamp provides this program, and our commander Alim Shabazz authored and carried Resolution 27-10. We say so plainly, because a board deciding whether to adopt should know where our interest sits. The resolution encourages adoption. It does not require it, and it names no provider — the seven steps above work whether you run them with us or without us.
Send us your post or department number, where you are, and what ground you have. We will get on a call and walk your situation specifically — what you already have, what is missing, and whether you can run a first session inside ninety days.
Departments run this differently than a single post does: pick a pilot post, prove it for two quarters, then take the numbers to your other posts. We will map that sequence with you on the same call.
Not every post is ready on the first call. If yours is not, we will tell you exactly what to fix and when to call us back. The standard does not move.
Call: (808) 808-6337
Email: info@bigtirebootcamp.com
Come see it: any Tuesday, 5:30 PM, 5001 Iroquois Ave, Ewa Beach, HI 96706. Watching one session teaches more than this whole page.
Not an AMVETS post? Other veteran service organizations have asked for the same framework, and we run it with them on the same terms. If you would rather fund a program than run one, sponsorship is the separate path.
