This weekend 19 women from across the country descended on Primal Fitness for a Parkour training seminar. Lead by Amanda Henry, the coaches included Janine Cundy, Alissa Bratz, Laurie Jennifer with assistance from Brittany Rouin. The women went through some very tough conditioning sessions and many of the basic techniques, premises, and history of Parkour. Click the image for full size, read more to find out more about the session.

We were very excited with the turn-out. 19 women from Seattle, Washington to Washington, DC, NY, MD, VA, PA, DE, MA, MO and WI participated in Primal Fitness' first Women's Parkour training seminar. The two day seminar started with some intense conditioning that included some QM, QM on stairs, shimmying along walls in both "up" and hang positions, and some general conditioning. We then moved to jump and landing training, using precision jump trainers to drill precisions with Laurie, and then straight into landing and rolling lead by Muse (Alissa). The first day ended with cadence drills and tic-tacs - a great chance for Amanda to show her stuff by tic-tacking well over her own head height! That night there was a small cook out thanks to Amanda and Pilou for supplying the food and then cooking it! It was great to get to know some of the women for the seminar on a personal level.

Sunday started with an equally fun conditioning session – mostly running based, with some QM, interval sprints, agility running (sideways, foot over foot, switching, running backwards) and more sprinting - oh, and who can forget the burn of duck walk straight into QM into walking lunges. We were all very impressed with the women's fortitude. Every single woman that came out gave it her all - there were no quitters or slackers in this group!

From there we moved to vaults taught by Janine, she did a great session with in depth coverage of safety vaults, one handed, two handed forward vaults, lazy vaults, and lazy to turn vaults. It was great to see the rate the women progressed at! After a brief chat about nutrition we had BBQ for lunch :P.

In the afternoon we went back into the blistering heat to do some pairs conditioning with Amanda - QM (some forwards some backwards) vs. squat, and broad jump burpees vs plank - the course was at least 50 yards which made for some difficult training- but every woman pushed through and completed the training, some with blistering and bleeding hands, these women were troopers!

Next we split into two stations – Underbars lead by Janine and Wall runs / tops outs lead by Amanda. Janine’s group was treated to a great progression that had everyone flying under rails and landing precision on sidewalk lines in a very short time, and even picking up the tricky reverse-underbar. Amanda’s group went through topping out and kipping, cat leaps, and finally wall runs. The wall run was a great challenge with several women taking many attempts to finally catch the ledge and pull themselves up – a triumphant end to the day!

Lastly Amanda lead another stretching and cool down session, people exchanged contacts so that the women can keep this momentum going, and several women picked up one of the new APK t-shirts which will be unveiled later this week :)

Thanks again to all the women who made this such a fun and successful event!  

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