Upcoming truth

I was in bournemouth yesterday and did things that pushed me, I put myself through all kinds of things that had me trying to overcome mental barriers. It was like that in Derby.

All my life I was brought up to be cautious and to stray away from danger, then I started Parkour where at first I fell and injured myself and even ended up in a cast twice. Being in a cast is stressful and does take up time for me it was 4 weeks and 2 weeks rehabilitiation. So yeah it has taught me to take my time and not go crazy but after yesterday I went through psychological hell only to land something and burst out laughing at the ease my physical body was able to do it.

So I guess what I am saying is sure I have balls when it comes to this stuff your everyday person will look at it and doubt their own ability immediatley as we do in this society.

But I am not comparing myself to untrained indivduals I am on about me. I know it can be dangerous at times but the last week or so has taught me that I put in enough effort and I train well enough to be responsive to even big obstacles. It comes down to the training I have been doing Parkour for 4 years now, the first year and a half was spent in Corby with little commitment and I rarely pushed myself. However 2009 after my 17th birthday saw me push myself to bigger running precisions and I become more aware of how the body grows. Now I am 19 and heavily into personal training I know a lot about different reistance training and how the body responds in different ways to each training.

Parkour requires a very generic base of fitness your talking core stability, strength in the lats, shoulders, triceps, quads, hamstrings, calfs, trapezius. So basically all the major muscles of the body.

However its training them in the right way. Tricep extensions and kick backs will improve climb ups kong distance, however you also require lots of strength and power in the shouldersand trapezius. The shoulders and back are made up of whats called rotar cuff muscles mostly working as synergist muscles so for them to be worked your gonna have to do free weights throwing in a mixture of different shoulder work outs.

I don't wanna keep going on about this what I wanted to say was every movement and pattern the body goes through is based on motor units and activation of muscle fibres. Now the reality is I find it difficult to overcome something that is new or beyond my set standard. So really what I know I can do is do more training in the gym activate the motor units and twitch fibres so that when doing something different the body responds well in a manner that gives the best result to minimise injury.

However looking at it on a mind side I could be the worlds fittest person and still not be able to do something simply because I was scared.

So the truth is I will get hurt, I will fall and probably several times, I may find myself in moments of agony and fear. I can do what I can on a physical level to minimise any injury that may occur simply because shit happens. However I noticed that when committing 100% there is a lower risk of any intrinsic things going wrong (basically an injury occured by ones actions) rather than because he pussied out and landed funny.

So I know what I want to do I know shit gets scary but It is what I want and it is why I am here. So in absoulte confidence I will overcome what I can to push my boundries both physical and psychological.