Unleash the Power of Parkour Fitness

Benefits

Parkour workouts are fluid movements that teach essential life skills, such as:

• Strength to jump or climb higher

• Power to exercise a lot of force within a short time

• Agility to move quicker, easier, and more gracefully than before

• Physical wellness and mental endurance

• Flexibility to make your movements almost like water

• Balance enabling you to climb, walk, run, and swing along rails, pipes, ropes, and more

• Creativity to wade through all obstacles

• Mental strength to think practically

Tips to Help You Get Started

Your Parkour fitness will be fun when you follow these tips:

• Prepare yourself mentally to overcome the obstacles that come your way.

• Always follow safety practices and wear proper gear while doing the workout.

• Build your endurance by doing proper push-ups, pull-ups, and squats to prepare yourself for Parkour workouts.

• Avoid distractions of all sorts to improve your balance & coordination.

• Begin slowly at first with simple obstacles.

• Learn the basics of vaulting, climbing, swinging, and jumping from a professional before you proceed to learn wall running, also known as tic-tac.

• Create a style of your own

• Always define your parameters and ensure your Parkour workouts start and end within those limits. This will bring discipline to your fitness schedule.

• Start training in groups initially to be safe.

Essential Parkour Techniques

Parkour fitness routines usually cover these basic techniques:

• Balancing –

Coordination needed when jumping or walking on the edges of walls

• Running –

Endurance running and sprinting to get away from obstacles

• Jumping –

Includes precision jumping, tic-tacs, and dropping

• Landing –

Includes two-foot landings and rolling techniques

• Vaulting –

Includes step vaults, speed vaults, lazy vaults, dash vaults, and Kong vaults

• Climbing –

Teaches techniques like wall running and cat leaps

• Swinging –

includes basic and spiral underbar swing routines to overcome obstacles

Parkour Safety Tips

When practising Parkour workouts, it is essential to follow these safety tips:

• Know the obstacles on your way and the risks associated with them. This will help you perfect your techniques to mitigate these risks.

• Always practice the basic techniques properly before venturing into risky stunts.

• Practice as many landings as possible before jumping or dropping from a high surface.

• Focus on basic training instead of getting diverted with the fancier stuff like wall runs and high jumps.

• Work on your rolling to avoid falls and injuries during your Parkour fitness regimen.

• Wear appropriate safety gear while doing risky stunts.