Muse's Recipe Thread

When it comes to health and fitness, exercise is important. Nutrition, however, is even more important. Without giving your body what it needs to function optimally, it's like trying to fill up your car with lemonade. It might be cheaper, but it isn't going to work nearly as well. Often the best meals you can have are homemade, but who has time to go looking for recipes that might be too complicated? Check out this Recipe's thread instead!

'Trace the Path'
with Tyler M. #4

Trace the Path brings us a beginner who is starting his path through Parkour and was willnig to document every step to share his experiences with others!

The 4th, and last for a while, issue of Trace the Path. Read inside to find out the latest developments in a budding traceur's life, and why he has to take a break for a while. Good lessons to learn for everyone!

Useful Recipes for Health•
Leave No Trace event Tracker•
Parkour Elements•
The IF Life - simplicity in training•
Dealing with the Media•
Traceur Highlight: Tyler #4•

Happy New Years from the FreeRunner!

Hey everyone, guess what? It's 2009 right now! That means another whole year of Parkour! Ask yourselves – what are you going to do different this year? What kinds of goals did you have last year that you never accomplished? American Parkour has a lot of resources to help you accomplish these goals, but one of the best is the Training Journal section of the forums. A lot of members have started training journals here – it's a great place to keep track of goals and how you are working toward attaining them. I encourage everyone to start a training journal, write down your goals, and record what progress you are making toward those goals.

- Zachary Cohn "The Free Runner" Editor

Parkour Elements
Ryan Ford has started a new Parkour training site, Parkour Elements. It is a comprehensive, centralized resource that focuses on what matters; training. Parkour Elements is dedicated to sharing and promoting the best parkour and freerunning training information possible. It aims to inspire and inform, to help and to better. You can find articles, theories, drills, games, exercises, tutorials, conditioning information, and more to help you train successfully.

Leave No Trace Events and Tracker

Leave No Trace is an initiative that allows traceurs to "give back" to their local communities. We train in public areas, and so the least we can do is go around helping to keep them clean. Within the past month, Rochester Parkour and San Fransisco Parkour both held successful Leave No Trace events. Zachary Cohn has decided to start a tracker, a thread where people can see ALL the Leave No Trace events that have occurred, how much was picked up, and find more information about each event. If you have held one in the past, or if you've just held one, go there and post! It's cool to see how collectively we can make such a huge difference.

Im liking the shades on Stylis' face as he speeds over this low wall in downtown Chicago! Scenery is beautiful :)

Also check out our featured Video of the Month: APK Alliance's Demo features all of the team's valiant traceurs pieced together to give you a feel for everyone's attitudes. It's got some great shots so check it out!

The IF Life

"The IF Life is a blog focusing on many aspects to simplicity in health, fitness and general happiness in life." www.Theiflife.com has a ton of great information on nutrition, eating, dieting, and fitness in general. It's a fantastic resource that has the tendency to dispel a lot of commonly accepted myths and falsehoods.