Any organization. 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.
Any organization with a patch of ground and one willing coach can run the same program. This page is how. AMVETS has endorsed it as a national model — if you are an AMVETS post, your section is below.
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.
Most organizations already have the two hardest things to buy: ground, and people who trust the ones running 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 AMVETS endorsed it as a national model 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 program runs.
Passed on the floor at the AMVETS 80th National Convention in Orlando.
Serving veterans is the reason. It is not the only return. Whoever takes 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 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. An organization running this reaches both ends of its community 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 program, those dues are your organization's revenue. They fund your equipment, your coach and your space.
The app counts every check-in under your program. That produces a participation summary you can hand your board, a grant officer or a sponsor — and, for an AMVETS post, the annual summary Resolution 27-10 asks for. No program gets funded on the strength of something it cannot measure.
Spouses, kids, neighbors and first responders training on your ground on a fixed weekly schedule. For most organizations that is more new foot traffic than any other single activity — and every one of them now knows where you are and what you do.
An organization 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 most organizations assume. The most common reason a program 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 program that tries to open six days a week burns its lead out inside a quarter.
Non-negotiable, and the part most new programs 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 program that buys equipment before it names a lead ends up with tires in a shed.
Bring it to whoever decides — a post commander and board, a church council, a school administration, a nonprofit's directors. Ask for use of the ground, permission to run under your organization's insurance, and a decision in writing. Nothing else yet — no budget, no equipment.
One name, one phone number, one person accountable. This is the single biggest predictor of whether a program is still running in year two. It does not have to be the coach.
Our Adaptive & Inclusive Coach Certification covers the adaptive work end to end — $499 per coach, free for AMVETS post and department 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 programs 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 program 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.
Fourteen modules on coaching adaptive and inclusive sessions, finishing with a module that walks your coach through exactly these seven steps. $499 per coach; free for AMVETS post and department coaches. Every enrollment is approved by hand.
See the certification →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 program's own roster. Your numbers, your program, 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 program 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 program's results run in it, and you get the format to send to your own members, your board and your community.
Your veterans create free accounts. Their check-ins, their programming and their progress live in one place, under your program. You stop guessing at attendance and start reporting real numbers — to your board, your funders, and anyone who asks what the program is doing.
Those numbers are also what makes a program fundable. Nobody sponsors a program that cannot say how many people it served last month.
Everything above — onboarding, the library, the scaling guide, the forms, the app, the calls, the reviews. Your organization pays for what it puts on the ground: certification, insurance and equipment. The only one of those that can come to us is our coach certification, and it is free for AMVETS post and department coaches.
Our Adaptive & Inclusive Coach Certification for the adaptive work — $499 per coach, free for AMVETS post and department coaches. A recognized CPT for the fundamentals and current CPR/AED alongside it, paid to those certifying bodies.
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 organization directly, at whatever rate your board sets. Ours are $59 a month individual and $99 family. Every dollar of it stays with you.
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 an organization 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 site or twenty — a department’s posts, a diocese’s parishes, a district’s schools. Start with a pilot, prove it for two quarters, then add the rest on the same basis.
Disclosure. Big Tire Bootcamp provides this program and runs the coach certification, and our commander Alim Shabazz authored and carried AMVETS Resolution 27-10. We say so plainly, because a board deciding whether to adopt should know where our interest sits. The resolution encourages AMVETS posts to adopt; it does not require it, and it names no provider — the seven steps above work whether you run them with us or without us.
At the 80th National Convention in Orlando, AMVETS adopted Resolution 27-10 — 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, and passed on the floor. For an AMVETS post, everything on this page is the framework the resolution authorizes.
Quoted from the adopted resolution. It was referred to the National Programs Committee and is implemented in accordance with AMVETS National policies.
Coach certification is free for AMVETS post and department coaches. Everything else on this page — the steps, the support, the terms — is the same for every organization.
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.
Read the operative sentence again: endorsed as a national model. That is the standing this program carries into any post or department that adopts it — including yours.
Send us your organization’s name, 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.
Organizations with more than one site — an AMVETS department, a diocese, a school district — run this differently: pick a pilot site, prove it for two quarters, then take the numbers to the rest. We will map that sequence with you on the same call.
Not every organization 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.
If you would rather fund a program than run one, sponsorship is the separate path.
