Weekend Training

Just an update, havn't been on the blog in a few days.

The four day weekend has come to an end, and I enjoyed it for the most part. I got a lot of training in, from upper and lower body conditioning, to precisions, to rail balance and laches. The pain my muscles are in at the moment really tell the story =P Time for some rest! Kind of unnavoidable, considering I happened to catch quite the nasty cold toward the end of the weekend. Seems to be getting better though.

So, I decided to give some rain-training a try throughout Saturday and Sunday, because it rained literally the entire 48 hours. I didn't want those two days to go to waste though, so I tested my skills on the wet, slippery surfaces. It definitely took some extra concentration, especially with rail balance, but after some time my body and mind began to adapt. I think it is really important to train yourself in all different sorts of weather conditions so that your body and mind can handle them with ease....I mean, Parkour is about efficiency and the ability to move in and adapt to your surroundings, right? Yes. So training in all different surroundings (in this case, weather conditions), will keep your body ready for anything that's thrown at it!

Monday I took off as a rest day to allow my body to heal a bit from the past few days of training, but as soon as Tuesday came along, I was right back into it. My body was feeling great and I was eager to try some new things. These proved to be very very good additions to my training.

I went straight to the school playground and began creating any type of conditioning exercise I could imagine....using bars, rails, poles, rope....the entire playground, every part of it. I tried to traverse in the most ridiculous ways possible, attempting to give my body something a little more foreign to work with. The exercises I came up with happened to be really difficult, and worked some muscles that I never even knew existed. This was not only a one time thing either...this weekend I'm heading to town to try to come up with some other ridiculous ideas using whatever is available to me there. This is not only a great way to work different muscles and add more variety to training, but it's also an incredible exercise for the mind. It forces you to think "out of the box", and create unique ways of moving in any given environment. Looking at your surroundings in such uncommon ways enables you to test new skills and make the best of even the most simple, barren areas. I think this is a very important asset to any Traceur's Parkour training regimen.

Well, that's all for now...time to give my body some rest so that I can take on the upcoming weekend xD I will post about what comes of it.

Train hard, Train safe.

-Nick