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WOD 10-2-14: Strides!
"There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best." -Doris Lessing APK WOD 10-22-14 Start with an APK Warm-Up Strides! Strides, in a parkour context, are basically a series of linked single-foot jumps. Strides...
WOD 10-21-14: Recovery Day
"Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind." -Samuel Taylor Coleridge APK WOD 10-21-14 Recovery Day Exercise is only half of the equation when it comes to making gains in strength and skill. Recovery is...
WOD 10-20-14: Overhead Squat
Genius is the recovery of childhood at will. -Arthur Rimbaud APK WOD 10-20-14 Start with an APK Warm-Up Overhead Squat Learning the Overhead Squat. is a fantastic way to build flexibility in the shoulders and hips as well as activation of important stabilizing muscle...
WOD 10-17-14: Hip Mobility and Landings
"Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill." -Shinichi Suzuki APK WOD 10-17-14 Start with an APK Warm-Up Hip Mobility and Landings Inspiring movement teacher Ido Portal shows us a hip mobility routine that will help you work towards developing...
WOD 10-16-14: Shoulder Mobility and Climbing
"Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities." -Oscar Wilde APK WOD 10-16-14 Start with an APK Warm-Up Shoulder Mobility and Climbing First, hit some shoulder mobility with some band dislocates. Be sure to pick up a band training kit if you don't...
WOD 10-15-14: Mountain-Climb Ups
"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying." -Friedrich Nietzsche APK WOD 10-15-14 Mountain-Climb Ups Start with an APK Warm-Up Find a wall 5 to 7 feet tall. 5 Rounds as fast as...
WOD 10-14-14: Agility and Foot-speed Training
"Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination." -e. e. cummings WOD 10-14-14 Start with an APK Warm-Up Agility and Foot-speed Training Draw or fashion an Agility Ladder. Perform the drills displayed in this video. Quick feet and the ability to change...
WOD 10-13-14: (Re)Testing Plyos
"As far as I can judge, not much good can be done without disturbing something or somebody." -Edward Blake APK WOD 10-13-14 Start with an APK Warm-Up Parkour Plyos Plyometric training is a great way to increase jumping ability. In parkour, we refer to "plyos" as...
WOD 10-10-14: HSPU and Burpee+Broad Jump
"Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong." -Fridtjof Nansen APK WOD 10-10-14 Start with an APK Warm-Up HSPU and Burpee+Broad Jump 4 rounds, each for time, :45 rest between each round:5 Handstand Push-Ups (Assisted, Against a wall,...