it helps to have everything in mind that you want to do before you go out to train.  also don't spend too much time resting between sets only about 60 to 90 seconds if not less. you can squeez in alot of different exercises this way.

Almost everything you do in their classes is conditioning.

One class when I was there went something like this...

- Run for 20 or so
- 3 x 1 muscle up
- 3 x 2 muscle up
- jumping over a 3.5 foot fence 4 x 10, hold a squat for a minute, then 5 x 10
- 3 x 3 muscle up
- QM, and gap traversing drill (a ~5 foot gap between low walls, you put hand on one, and feet on another and move down the wall, then QM back around the wall)
- Movement circuit that included a turn vault/climb up on a wall, and a dyno
- Movement circuit that included taking a 5 foot drop on concrete, and a cat leap
- Dynos (forget how many)
- The drill Forrest does at the beginning of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kPWUY4wsFA (1 time, rest, then 2 consecutive times)

(Just in case there is confusion, after every drill you run directly to the next one.)

I don't think I'm forgetting anything, and that took a little over two hours. It was just about the hardest I've ever been pushed.

I have heard all about Forrest legendary warm-ups and I'm really looking forward to partaking in one when I get the opportunity to train with PK Gen. I also know the emphasis they put on conditioning, but if that's the kinda class they put you through, then I understand how 2 or 3 hours is enough.

I personally think I make conditioning a big part of my training, but that was like 80% conditioning! I'll keep that in mind.

Chris- I get what you mean, but wouldn't you say it would be important to move even after you body is weary? It takes focus, but training like that sometimes can create a whole new challenge.

Were you at the Texas National Jam? You face in the picture looks familiar. Not the monkey though haha

Please note guys, that yes, PK Gen are far more experience than most of us, but that does mean they're training ideas and philosophy are cardinal law.

Take their advice and apply it but always keep in mind that there is no perfect training method. Conditioning is necessary, but if conditioning is everything you do, then you have nothing and vice versa. All tricks and no conditioning equals the same failure.

Well Chris, I think I'll give what you said a try. For the next few weeks or so I break up the days and see where that put me after a while.

Hahaha ya man, no worries playing is good, I really enjoy it. But if you want to play, stay here. It's ok, you can fall, or miss, just brake something...I don't know.  (SV)

In Austin, we had a similar setup with technical and conditioning days separate.  However, I found that a lot of people were coming to technical days and skipping conditioning days, especially the newer kids who needed conditioning the most.  At PK Gen's meetup in Columbus, I posed the question to Dan, who more or less crystalized everything we were doing that weekend into what should have been an obvious statement.  He said not to make one day a skill day, another day a conditioning day, and so forth.  Training is training.  When you train, you train your strength, your technique, your fear, your dexterity, everything.  I'm guessing this is why they have so many vastly different exercises strung together in a row in their sessions.


Condition moar!  Many practitioners consider 80% conditioning to 20% skill to be a good mix.  When I lead Austin's workouts, I try to model it after PK Gen's workouts, so that everyone's gotten a lot of conditioning in throughout the day, and turn some skill work into conditioning as well.