It's only the start of the day, but I guess I'll record my experiences anyways - it won't hurt me =)
I woke up today at 10:30AM, and realized that I skipped my French class. That was a real bad event in the day, and I'm still worrying about it even now. After French came Gym, which I barely made. When I ran in to the gymnasium, the coach was about to say that I skipped class, but I convinced him not to do it. This is the first time since the beginning of the year that I "slept through" a whole class. Very Sad.
In the Gym, I worked out for about 40 minutes. I did ~15 pull-ups, and ran 5km on the treadmill (the equivalent of 3.1mile). I was happy about the fact that I could run 5km, since my longest run before this was only around 1.5 miles. However, I felt very tired after the workout, and that leads me to believe that I should do more running. Also, yesterday before sleep I tried doing push-ups with elevated feet, which caused stomach pain. I think that I also need to work on my abdominal muscles.
Workout summary for half of the day: 5km run, 15 pull ups, 5 PK rolls, 4 sauts de chat.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Parkour - Fifth Day
Well, I guess I'll start off my blog from the fifth day of my Parkour experience. Before I say more, I am a 15 year old boy. I used to rock climb, but my move to a boarding school unfortunately interrupted that experience. However, I found a part of that "missing spirit" in Parkour. Parkour is defined by many beginners as "The quickest way from A to B". However, to me - it is more than that. I have read around on many parkour forums, and I realize that Parkour is closer to a way of life, and a way of facing challenges head-on, rather than being a purely physical materialization of some precise movements developed by David Belle.
This is my fifth day practicing Parkour. Let me quickly re-cap my story. I first started Parkour last Sunday, after watching a lot of the videos on the internet. Also, at that time I thought that frontflips and backflips were part of Parkour, so I started a Parkour Club at my school to help me and others achieve mastery of the front/backflip. Our first meeting was yesterday (Wednesday). All of us are beginners, but we want to improve. For the past five days, I have kept up an average of 1-3 hours of Parkour training a day (more being impossible due to my school's workload). I am also trying out for Junior Varsity Crew, which I hope will help me with my Parkour practice.
I have practiced basic sauts de chat (catpasses), and obviously la roulade. My shoulder still hurts a bit when rolling on the concrete, but its improving. I used to do a little aikido (self-taught), however, it turned out that the aikido roll is not the same as the PK roll, so I had to re-teach myself. I had moderate success with the catpasses, and have hurt myself twice within a week (not an achievement). The first time was when I was just starting out, and I jumped from around 7 feet, my knees buckling, and ending up on a rock. The second time was today, but it wasn't as painful. I was doing a saut de chat over a railing and my foot got caught. I think I'll be fine by tomorrow though.
I also am trying to work out a bit in preparation for Parkour. I do about 50 pull-ups a day. However, I'm not at all good at push-ups or crunches/sit-ups, so I need to train those. Anyways, this will be it for today, and I hope that whoever reads this will post a comment.
P.S. Strelok is the nickname I use on most forums, so I'll use it here too.
Thank you for reading =)
Strelok
This is my fifth day practicing Parkour. Let me quickly re-cap my story. I first started Parkour last Sunday, after watching a lot of the videos on the internet. Also, at that time I thought that frontflips and backflips were part of Parkour, so I started a Parkour Club at my school to help me and others achieve mastery of the front/backflip. Our first meeting was yesterday (Wednesday). All of us are beginners, but we want to improve. For the past five days, I have kept up an average of 1-3 hours of Parkour training a day (more being impossible due to my school's workload). I am also trying out for Junior Varsity Crew, which I hope will help me with my Parkour practice.
I have practiced basic sauts de chat (catpasses), and obviously la roulade. My shoulder still hurts a bit when rolling on the concrete, but its improving. I used to do a little aikido (self-taught), however, it turned out that the aikido roll is not the same as the PK roll, so I had to re-teach myself. I had moderate success with the catpasses, and have hurt myself twice within a week (not an achievement). The first time was when I was just starting out, and I jumped from around 7 feet, my knees buckling, and ending up on a rock. The second time was today, but it wasn't as painful. I was doing a saut de chat over a railing and my foot got caught. I think I'll be fine by tomorrow though.
I also am trying to work out a bit in preparation for Parkour. I do about 50 pull-ups a day. However, I'm not at all good at push-ups or crunches/sit-ups, so I need to train those. Anyways, this will be it for today, and I hope that whoever reads this will post a comment.
P.S. Strelok is the nickname I use on most forums, so I'll use it here too.
Thank you for reading =)
Strelok
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