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WOD 7-3-14: Toes to Bar GTG
"Read nature; nature is a friend to truth." -Edward Young APK WOD 7-3-14 Toes to Bar GTG Do 20 sets of 5 Toes to Bar throughout the rest of the day! Using the Grease The Groove method is a great way to improve your strength.
WOD 7-2-14: Mountain-Climb Ups
"Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it." -Hermann Hesse APK WOD 7-2-14 Mountain-Climb Ups Start with an APK Warm-Up Find a wall 5 to 7 feet tall. 5...
WOD 7-1-14: Grip Training
"Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age." -George Sand APK WOD 7-1-14 Start with an APK Warm-Up Grip Training On a pull-up bar, do the max number of pull-ups you can (choose a variation that allows at least 10), immediately after reaching max,...
Parkour Goggles – Adrienne Toumayan
So, do you just walk around and look for things to jump/climb on? This is one of the most common questions I get when I tell people I train parkour. And the answer is yes. Yes, I absolutely do. Honestly, one of the coolest things about training parkour is that your...
WOD 6-27-14: Tabata Push-Ups and SIt-Ups
"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision." -Helen Keller APK WOD 6-27-14 Start with an APK Warm-Up Tabata Push-Ups and SIt-Ups For each of 8 rounds, perform as many push-ups as possible in 20 seconds, followed by 10 seconds of rest, for a...
WOD 6-26-14: Head Over Heels- Basic Tumbling
"The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught." -Lord Kelvin APK WOD 6-26-14 Start with an APK Warm-Up Head Over Heels- Basic Tumbling Getting familiar with the basics of tumbling will translate into better body awareness and...
WOD 6-25-14: Handstand and Running Conditioning
"Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness." -George Orwell APK WOD 6-25-14 Start with an APK Warm-Up Handstand and Running Conditioning Perform 2 rounds of the following for time: Run 400 Meters Hold a Handstand as long as...
A Word from an Injured Traceur
By: Wenxin Yang A year ago I took a nasty fall at the Chicago National Jam. It was the first of its kind in my entire career of doing Parkour thus far. I was very badly hurt by the initial shock but did not think too much of it at the time, I was inexperienced with...
WOD 6-24-14: Pull and Push Complexes
"If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality." -Norman Cousins APK WOD 6-24-14 Start with an APK Warm-Up Pull and Push Complexes 5 Rounds for time: 1 Muscle-Up 2 L Pull-Ups 3 Strict Pull-Ups 4 Kipping Pull-Ups 1...