Recently i have been thinking
alot about my training and about why people are better than me. the simple answer is the have practiced more, but what is practice? and how do people practice? and how can i make that better?
i have recently started thinking about this since I heard about
Tariq's fall and witness the change that had on him mentally, but my ideas took complete form recently while I was visiting
Cambridge to
training with people from up there.
The inspiration that has made my ideas form comes from two people
Tariq and
Jin. Firstly
Jin, i don't really understand why this affect me so much but it made me realise a problem that has been
occurring in St.
Albans at the moment and possibly else where. In St albans people say they are coming out to train, but they are coming out to jam. In my opinion many people come out and try new things etc, which does have to be a part of your training but it shouldn't be the only part. This i will come onto later and i will also talk about Tariq's contrabution to my ideas are because we are in a very simalar mind set at the moment.
Time to answer my questions.
Why are people better than others?
well this answer is obvious, normally it is because they have been training longer, but what does that actually meen? It means they have done more repetitions, more conditioning more everything.
like I said earlier, when people go out to train, all they do is try and make them selves do something different, they see this as progression which it is, but this sin't the best, the most efficiant way of training. Sure you may land something new each session or every other session, but if you go to do a new precision are you likely to land it perfectly first time? No. But why can for instance philip doyle land it so well, practice, he has practice precisions, over and over again, repetition.
So this is the key to training to be able to perform every time correctly, repetition. The more you practice something the more your body is acustomed to the feeling of flight, the posture, and angles needed to land precisions. One extra point before i move onto other ideas on training, when doing repetitions, if you are focusing on running precisions, do one over and over again, either leg, at first mentally decide then go with the length of run and jump of either. repeat up to a set number, when you reach it if you ahve it nice on both legs move onto a different running precision and drill that up to a set number on each leg and until its nice. After that move onto another aspect of training, different muscle groups and maybe a type i am going to explorer in a second, but the next time you pass these running precision, run at it take of on either leg and see if you stick it well, if so your training was good, if not you know you need to do it agai when you are fit. This is progression
Conditioning ideas.In cambridge i watched Jin a great deal observing his conditioning techniques etc. While he was out he spent alot of time on circuites, which again is somthing we don't really do enough of, but it wasn;t jsut treversing, but precision and armjumps etc, this way you are working techniquley etc.
Another idea i noticed Jin doing i balancing, balance in different ways, for instance quadrapead, or with your hands between your legs, you can find some ideas from this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqaRJEPVPfkbut my point is, this type of training on rails works so many things, by putting your body in awkward positions, trains strength, balance, mucular endurance, co-ordination, flexability and many more.
To conclude, parkour training should be training, going out to prefect technique and gain strength, not only to do new things, yes that has to be a part of your training or tedium will start to affect you, but alot of your training, and alot more than most of you do know, should be conditioning and perfecting techniques and each and every compontect of fitness:-
- Power
- Co-ordination
- flexability
- Agilty
- Balance
- body Composition
- Reactions
- Muscular Endurance
- Cardiovascular Endurance
- Speed
- Strength
Each technique of training i have mentoioned aboeve trains each and every component of fitness, if applied correctly
thanks for reading i hope these things help, any messages on you progress and ideas on this post is more than welcome, i like every one else is learning and im welcome to ideas.
Tim
