Post 7

This week has been strange, a guy from bournemouth came to Weymouth and seeing his parkour abailities made me very self concious about myself.

I thought that I was bulky and couldn't control my balance or running. So i decided to learn the very basic's of Parkour ...... Running and walking.

Working on my entire body positioning, keeping my shoulders back and never forward, running with strides and confedence. Keep good speed also.

So it has been strange and I have been very self concious about my overall body apperance. (Hight, walk, run, body position.) However it is true I do seem abit stiff and un confident when running into a move something I am working on now.

Either way I try not to be to self criticle because the past week has been good.

A few words

I just wanted to say a few days ago I thought I hit a wall that I felt I could'nt overcome. But I watching a video been inspired and knowing within myself knowing that with hard enough work I can acheive what I set my heart on.

It is something I am willing to do and it makes me happy :).

Recent update

It's been a while since my last entry. Alot has happened since then I started adding more protien to my diet and have been conditoning alot more.

Was out doing Parkour today and it has been alot of fun. Believing myself and my ability has helped me over come new and challenging obstacles some easy some not so easy but all fun. I'm alot happier with my Parkour training I enjoy it and my constant playing around on scaffolding has made my upper body strength better.

As for gym it has been intresting I have learnt new tricks and Sunday was a 3 hour long gym session which took till now to recover from :P.

My front tucks are high my sideflips are high but need more work as I fall backwards sometimes. My backhandsprings are abit sideways my back tucks are ok but I'm still nervous with them and don't go for the height I could really get. I also attempted Btwists which turned out ok :). Next gym session is Friday and I should be going Bournemouth Saturday too for a jam session.

I'm gonna keep on going and I hope the summer is a good one. Currently I'm not filming and don't want to maybe in September I shall film :).

Preperation

Hell night was good it still begins to build up more and more each time. The following day (Friday) was a 2 hour gym session which I must say was intresting. I wont get into much detail but I found my gymnastics getting more eficiant. Then came Sunday I got the train to Braksome and walked to rossmore. By far one of the most fun gym sessions I had ever had. Standing websters with ease. 1 footed front flip precisions of about 4ft improved speed and height in backflips and same with cyclones. I attempted a sideflip out of curisoity and landed it with an akward twist to it. Something to work on.

So when making my way back towards the train station back to Weymouth I smiled and thought "Wow what an awsome gym session." My Parkour and conditioning is paying off but I don't want to stop their.

With more conditioning added to my legs mainly shins, calfs and quads I have increase in virtical height. With the different foods tried this week mainly samon and borcalli also including more fruit and including meals such as rice and chicken.

So with this in mind I want to add these foods in a more routine manner adding more healthy foods and putting the junk in moderation i.e. choclate ;).

Also I found a freestyle gymnastics based in Yeovil which is only 20 miles north of Weymouth. I am most likley going to check that out in 2 weeks time. It is held on a Sunday 1:30pm - 3:00pm Also the train fair is only £4.50 return bargin ;).

Also as well just a way to push more forward to what I want to acheieve in my Parkour and Gymnastics development I decided to commit 2 weeks (starting today) towards a protein diet mainly fish and lots of fruit. Drinking lots of water and eating lots of weetabix.

Today being Monday heres todays workout.

Shins :
3 sets of 100 shin raises (Both legs together)
After 100 hold the shin raise position for 60 seconds

3 sets of 80 shin raises (1 leg each)
After 80 hold the shin position for 30 seconds (maybe 40)

3 sets of 80 shin raises ( toes pointing inwards together)
After 80 hold the shin position for 30 seconds

Other various shin excercises will follow as I experiment with them.

Calfs :
5 sets of 100 calf raises (both legs together)
After 100 hold the claf raise position for 60 seconds

5 sets of 100 up and down calf movments (both legs together)

Quads :

4 sets of 50 wide leg squats
Hold squat position for 60 seconds after 50

4 sets of 50 one legged side squats (25 each side)
Hold position for 60 seconds after 25

4 sets of 50 launges (25 each leg)
hold position for 60 seconds after 25

Duck walk back and forth 30 times (Just over 2 meters)

Anothers day training

So I have been training today with a friend of mine and It has been really fun. A few flips here and there. I never done anything I hadnt done before but Is till enjoyed it. Just doing what I can already do and working on it.

Scaffolding swinging is getting easier I can hold flags for longer and my muscle ups are faster too. I wont be putting much in my blog anymore maybe once or twice a week. The only thing really for me to say is Hell night is 4 days away and I'm looking forward to it. I will try this routine for about 16 weeks and see if it helps me out.

I'm still continuing with my conditioning and thats all I have to say really :).

Todays lucky word is Ankle swinger.

Moving forward

So I put my feelings about that girl aside and I decided to train on some scaffolding and I did stuff I didnt think my body could manage I was doing high level pull ups. Swinging to other poles distances I didnt think I could manage. After 45 minutes I couldnt lift my forearms they were heavy.

When I jogged home I felt like a gorrilla because my arms were flapping beside me, I just couldnt move them up. At the same time I'm jogging I have a huge smile on my face. I must of looked like an escaped mental patient.

So I get home and find out a friend of mine has become a member of urban freeflow I couldnt beleive it I was so happy for him and it made me beleive anything is possible. Some things are difficult than others. All that conditoning the previous week had paid of but I won't stop there I will condition harder every week to reach my dreams and ambitions.

Todays lucky word is "Swine flu" A hybrid flu virus people beleive to do with pigs.