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Post by DemonRage on Apr 2, 2009 17:50:12 GMT
Hey guys. I'm brand new to Parkour, and I was wondering if anyone could briefly explain how I could change my lifestlye to help improve at it. Open to all suggestions.
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Post by crawty on Apr 6, 2009 14:23:48 GMT
No dramatic changes need to be done....
Just start to think more carefully and deeply about things you already do. So when your eating, make sure you are eating healthy foods you condition often preparing your body for parkour.
As you start training you will adapt automatically.
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Post by banj on Apr 15, 2009 20:52:44 GMT
Crawty has the right idea  I'd also reccomend some streching aswell, start off light and work your weay through your body, i'd say a good strech session for me lasts about half an hour - but it's entierly up to the individual. You can get good streching programmes on the net and in book shops, or you can do your own research into streches and build your own to follow. |
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Post by ANTISFIT on Apr 16, 2009 17:19:20 GMT
what sort of stretching are you talking about banj?
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Post by banj on Apr 17, 2009 20:23:13 GMT
Well Ant, i'll try to explain as best as possible my "putting words together to form a viable sentance" is somewhat lacking, but i shall try: I don't know how to properly answer so i shall say what i can best... I think it's key to strech as many mucles as you can before a traning session for a main and simple reason : incase of pulling a mucle. Streching helps (as preitty much most people know) your flexibility, and when performing Parkour your mucles are under alot of stress, streching these helps them become more...workable? I'm not too sure how to put that into words, but say for example you're doing a rather large combination, and your moving fast, some moves are technical folowing from other complex manuvers, your mucles are being constantly contracted and un-contracted (sorry due to the lack of terminology) and this puts them under alot of strain as your swtiching bewteen this mucle and the next, and after they've had a good strech out they can take more of a beating as they're more pliable ( think pliable is the right word) When i strech out i start on the arms, then gives my shoulders, neck, then move onto my back, then down to my legs, making sure each strech lasts atleast 30 seconds. I'm sorry i cannot put words together that well, and if that sounds dumb i apologise, but i find that streching helps me ALOT. |
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Post by ANTISFIT on Apr 18, 2009 19:24:55 GMT
yeah, i agree stretching is amazing, but my question was rather vague i realised, haha
but yeah, basically,
theirs dynamic and static stretching,
i was wondering which you use
because dynamic stretches are alot better for warm up (movement based stretches)
where static stretches have been shown to be less capable of preparing your muscles and can hinder your performance for roughly an hour
whereas they are alot better for warm downs
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Post by banj on Apr 18, 2009 19:43:06 GMT
I didn't know that moving streches were better than static i'll have to look more into that. Thanks for that ant. I use a combination of them both i think, i know alot of static streches as do i alot of people i gather, but i do that weird monkey walk thing which i've seen forest use, or atleast my own take of it, that most definatley feels like it streches alot. |
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Post by ANTISFIT on Apr 19, 2009 22:01:05 GMT
ahh yeah
quadrapedal movement
thats a good warm up
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