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Parkour is for Wimps Obstacle Love The obstacle is the path. - Zen proverb Home » Parkour is for Wimps Parkour is for Wimps Reading the bio’s of many well known parkour practitioners or freerunners you start wondering whether they were simply born for this and you weren’t. Freerunners seem to have some superior genetic predisposition for scaling walls and jumping off roofs. They obviously don’t have the genes for fear, weakness and laziness while they have the ones for agility flexibility strength you lack it appears.   Are parkour practitioners superhuman? These people seem to have been training all their life and theoretically never had major difficulties. They just continuously improved over the years and became professional athletes or stunt people without a while. It was all a straight line with a logical happy ending. Bullshit! Parkour is natural movement for everybody and wimps have the biggest opportunity to improve. When you are once training martial arts since you were four and ran your first marathon at 12 you don’t need parkour. It may be plane a step when or boring. Parkour is weightier suited to make the weak stronger, faster and increasingly agile. When I started training parkour I was a wimp. How did I transform myself from a weak fat geek to a fitness wonder without paying for a gym? All I did was resulting body-weight training. I attempted training in a gym long surpassing I started parkour. I plane did it twice for like six months. The first time was when I was still a teen and still looking sick years without a long illness made me radically lose weight.Whenthen I dropped from scrutinizingly obese to scrutinizingly anorectic.  Towersyour soul under the sun I tried the well-known approach: soul building. Of undertow stuff very weak and having no soul mass unliable me to progress quickly. I simply ate lots of protein powder.Withouta few months I looked “normal” then – like an stereotype guy – but not like a soul builder. Looking at the real soul builders weight lifting 200 pounds on the seat was frustrating to see. These guys didn’t make it easier for me by displaying a high-and-mighty stare from time to time when I walked tropical by. I’m not plane sure of that. I may have imagined their vein but the simple fact they were there didn’t motivate me but instead made finger somehow underdeveloped. Fast forward 20 years and here I was then – weak as hell – experiencing pain from mere walking and panting without taking a few steps of a staircase. Should I try soul towers again? No. There must be something else. Then I remembered those parkour videos where young men would move like monkeys and overcome obstacles effortlessly. Moreover these parkour practitioners were grinning and kidding all the time while at it. That’s a far cry from the tense undercurrent of the typical gym I was used to.Thenat first I thought I am nowhere near the worthiness to do this. First I need some muscle surpassing I can plane dare to try that I thought. I attempted to get fit for like three months and gave up when I got a cold. Strength training plane without using weights and machines was wearisome and frustrating again. The main difference was that I made a wiggle of myself by doing it vacated outside with random people moving by. I felt discouraged and defeated. I plane felt silly! Did I really think I can jump virtually on roofs like some 18 year old kid who has nothing to lose?   Moving virtually like a kid then without excuses I kept the parkour idea at the when of my throne while my excuses grew larger and increasingly important over time! I convinced myself that was I was too weak stiff old fat sick Yeah, I had scoliosis since early childhood, a skewed spine and feet unappetizing like some tortillas. I had pain from mere walking both in my feet and my shoulder. Now – a few years later – I know better. At that time – or in the end rather half a year later – I needed someone else to tell me. I met this well trained guy who was loitering in the place I usually walk and play with my dog. I once thought, what the heck does he do here? Then it dawned on me: he was unquestionably training parkour. Somehow we started chatting and I told him that I was too weak, stiff, old, fat, sick and every single “reason” not to train was quickly debunked by him. It turned out that this “young guy” was just one year younger than me (not in the late twenties like I suspected). He moreover has “had a belly” surpassing he started training regularly and yes he moreover had a spine illness but his was much increasingly serious. A few weeks without training and he risked to lose his worthiness to walk! It was no joke. I experienced that later when without an injury during moving flats he was unable to train for three months. He literally had to stop in the middle of nowhere and lay lanugo to exercise considering his spine would get “locked” otherwise. As you see I ran out of excuses quickly. Then I well-set to join him on the next day. That’s how I started training parkour. The rest is history.   From weakness to strength and when again? Often I regret that I didn’t make photos or videos of my poor state of health and fitness when then. I could barely move, expressly compared to now. I’m still not a professional traceur – I just move then like a kid that I probably never was. As a kid I was unchangingly smaller and weaker that the other boys. At 16 I was the oldest guy in my matriculation but the smallest when it comes to size. I never really excelled at any sports. I played basketball occasionally but we didn’t plane have a magistrate to play on. Only schools had them here in those days and we weren’t unliable to enter without school was out. We did come in anyway by climbing over gates and fences (parkour!) but we often had to leave without the janitor showed up. Now as an middle-aged man I finally undertook the journey to wilt what I could have been all the way – stronger and increasingly self-confident. I wish I hadn’t waited for so long. The later you start the harder it gets. You need to un-wimp yourself as soon as possible. A friend of mine who was obese in his late teens/early twenties undertook regular swimming for example. He did it like scrutinizingly every day for two years and looked like a model when he was in his mid to late twenties. When I met him a few years when he got fat then considering he embraced the sedentary lifestyle of an office worker who unchangingly short on time. This way he didn’t manage to train regularly anymore. He might have increasingly money now and he is moreover worldly-wise to sail with his wend on the weekends but it’s not unbearable to make him fit and healthy again. You don’t need a wend or something expensive to start training natural movement. That what parkour is well-nigh essentially. It’s possible everywhere at any time. Some people mutter that they have no obstacles to train at but that’s nonsense. You don’t need the same kind of obstacles you see on YouTube videos. Bushes stones trees will moreover do in the countryside. You can plane build obstacles yourself out of wood for example. Some people plane sell parkour obstacles online!   Are you a wimp, disabled or not plane a man? Many people requirement they have no time to train but you can plane train on the way to school or work in specimen you do it without excess. People who ride a velocipede to commute are moreover moving and can get a bit sweaty. You can leave older in the morning and instead of cycling for 20 minutes walk and practice parkour while at it for 40. While you may think that you are too weak, old or fat to train parkour or any sport as excuses work for most disciplines you may moreover need to know that plane disabled people practice it. I’ve seen videos of spanking-new parkour practitioners with various ailments, for example a schizophrenic who moreover suffers from side-effects of medication like obesity veiling guy who is not just “visually impaired” – he scrutinizingly doesn’t see anything, there’s moreover a completely veiling traceur an sultana guy who has the height of a little kid amputees both with one arm or plane just one leg and without using prosthetic limbs! You could oppose that people in a wheelchair are all practicing parkour considering every prorogue or stair is an obstacle for them but some wheelchair users are training increasingly than others. Aaron Fotheringham plane invented a whole new willpower he calls “hard cadre sitting” to requite a name to what he does using his wheelchair. Aaron Fotheringham plane managed to be the first person to struggle and succeed at doing a double-backflip in a wheelchair. Yeah, he flips not just once but twice in a row! As you see there are all kinds of “wimps” who are unable to match the standards of manliness and who haven’t been awarded perfect health and skills by nature from day one. It’s basically not well-nigh where you are – it’s well-nigh where you want to go. Do you want to stay weak? Of undertow part of my regulars are hopefully girls and women. Don’t believe those who say that parkour is just for boys or men. There are girls and women of all “body types” and month who jump largest than me and most other people.Planepregnant women practice parkour! Don’t wait until you’re 60+ or if you once are start now. Do it!   Merken Merken Merken Merken Merken Merken Merken January 20, 2017 · motivation, parkour Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Name * Email * Website By using this form you stipulate with the storage and handling of your data by this website. * ← How to Overcome Fear andWilta Superhero How to Beat Aging → SearchSearchAbout Obstacle.love How to deal with obstacles on the street and in life. Combining mental and physical strength to modernize health, conviction and well-being. Finding your own path. Becoming fearless.Stuffstrong to be helpful. These are the things Obstacle.love covers. TopicsagingempowermentexplorationhealthinspirationmotivationparkourtrainingWho is? Written by Tad Chef plume