How to Fill Out the Burn Boot Camp Liability Waiver Form

The Burn Boot Camp liability waiver is a location-specific legal release you must sign before your first workout, whether you’re joining as a member, dropping in as a guest, or trying a free class.¹ By signing, you acknowledge the physical risks of high-intensity training and agree not to sue the gym for most injuries that happen during a session. Each franchise maintains its own version, so the exact wording varies, but every copy follows the same template: assumption of risk, a release of claims, and an indemnification clause.

How and Where You Sign

The usual path is through the Burn Boot Camp mobile app. When you set up your profile, the app prompts you to review the waiver and sign electronically before you can book a class. If you’d rather use paper, the front desk at your local franchise keeps printed copies. Either way, you cannot check in for a session until a signed waiver is on file.¹

Because each location’s waiver is tied to that specific franchise, visiting a different Burn Boot Camp while traveling may require signing a new one on the spot.

Information the Form Asks For

Expect to provide your full name, email address, phone number, mailing address, and date of birth.² Many locations also collect health information such as allergies or special medical needs. Disclose cardiac issues, respiratory conditions, or joint injuries honestly. The waiver doesn’t require a doctor’s clearance letter, but trainers use what you share to modify exercises and watch for warning signs during camp.

Guests and trial participants fill out the same form as paying members. There’s no shorter version for a one-time class.¹

What You’re Agreeing To: Assumption of Risk

The longest section of the waiver is the assumption of risk. By signing, you acknowledge that workouts involve strenuous activities including weight training, treadmills, free weights, and squat racks, and that these activities carry the risk of broken bones, sprains, concussions, heart attack, and in extreme cases permanent disability or death.² The waiver also states that harm can come not only from your own actions but from the actions or inaction of other people, or from the condition of the premises and equipment.

Release of Claims and Indemnification

After the risk acknowledgment, the release itself kicks in. You agree not to sue Burn Boot Camp’s parent company, franchise partners, officers, directors, employees, contractors, or agents for injuries connected to your participation.² It’s a wide net of people and entities, which is standard for a franchise business.

The indemnification clause works the other direction. You agree to defend and hold the gym harmless for injuries caused by your own negligent or reckless behavior.² Translated: if you swing a kettlebell carelessly and hurt another member, and that person sues the gym, you could be responsible for the gym’s legal costs.

The waiver also caps the gym’s exposure. Even if a claim against Burn Boot Camp succeeded, recovery is limited to the total amount you paid the gym during the preceding twelve months.² For most members, that’s a few hundred dollars.

What the Waiver Does Not Cover

The waiver explicitly preserves your right to seek legal remedies for reckless conduct, or for conduct that is both intentional and wrongful.² If a trainer deliberately pushed you to injure yourself, or the franchise knowingly ignored a dangerous equipment defect, the waiver wouldn’t shield them. The line between ordinary negligence, which the waiver covers, and gross negligence or recklessness, which it does not, is where most disputed gym injury claims end up.

Whether It Will Hold Up Where You Live

Enforceability depends on state law. Most states enforce fitness waivers as long as the language is clear and the participant understood what they were agreeing to.³ A few take a harder line. Virginia, for example, generally refuses to enforce pre-injury liability releases on public policy grounds, though a signed waiver there can still serve as evidence that you understood the risks.

Even in states that routinely uphold waivers, a court can set one aside if it is unconscionable, buried in confusing jargon, or attempts to shield a business from its own reckless or intentional misconduct.³

The Separate Childwatch Waiver

If you plan to use childwatch while you work out, that program has its own waiver. The gym recommends signing it for all of your children when first prompted, even if you don’t plan to bring every child with you that day.⁴ It collects each child’s name, date of birth, and information about allergies or special needs, along with your parent or guardian contact details.⁵

Because minors can’t sign contracts, you sign on their behalf. A parent’s ability to waive a child’s legal rights varies by state. In many states, courts refuse to enforce waivers that parents sign for minors, and your child could potentially bring their own claim after turning eighteen.

Keeping a Copy and How Long It Lasts

Save your own copy. If you signed electronically, take a screenshot or look for the document stored in your app profile. If you signed on paper, ask for a photocopy before handing the original to the front desk. Having the exact version you signed matters if a dispute arises later about what you agreed to.

Burn Boot Camp’s terms include a survival provision: the clauses on indemnification, liability limits, and dispute resolution stay in effect even after your membership ends or your access is terminated.⁶ Practically, that means the waiver you sign on day one typically covers you for the full duration of your membership at that location rather than renewing annually. If you cancel and later rejoin, expect to sign a fresh waiver with whatever language the franchise is using at that point.

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Burn Boot Camp App Support. Do I Have to Fill Out a Liability Waiver?
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Cloudfront.net. Waiver and Release of Rights and Claims
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UMKC School of Law Institutional Repository. Enforceability of Exculpatory Clauses in Missouri
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Burn Boot Camp App Support. Can I Bring My Children With Me to Camp?
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Burn Boot Camp. Child Registration and Liability Waiver
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Burn Boot Camp. Terms of Use