Topic: Syle's Mumbo Jumbo

[Syle]

Hello everyone, my name is Andrey and I'm 15 years old.

I have just recently found out about parkour and so I decided that I want to learn some. For the next month or so I intend to practice on my landings, my rolls and my wallruns. The focus on landings and rolls is important because I am 6'1 tall and weigh around 210 lbs and the reason for practicing wallruns is because it's something I've always wanted to do.

Apart from parkour I have decided to train in order to improve my fitness and lead a healthier life in general.

My previous sport experiences include Taekwondo (from the age of 6 till the age of 11), Ninjitsu (from the age of 11 to the age of 12), somewhere in the middle 2 years of soccer. Then my family moved to another country and I kinda let myself go...although I did go to the gym regularly for about a year.

Right now I'm starting to get back in shape but my armstrength isn't what it used to be.

Here are my current limits:

Pushups ~18
Pullups ~1...
Sittups ~70
Squats ~80
And to top it all around 7 months ago I ran 1.25 miles in a sluggish 11 minutes...I think I'm a tad faster now but not sure...

Now then let's set some goals:

30 Pushups
3 Pullups
1.25 miles in 9 minutes
Getting the wallrun right
Improving my rolls and landings (from the safe height of my chair)

As for my workout menu...I don't really have one But this is more or less what I do:

Monday, Wednsday, Thursday, Saturday : 40 pushups and a 2.5-3 miles run
Friday : 30 pushups, 3x20 Jacknives, 200 jumps on a jump rope, 2x30 squats
I'll also be doing pullups whenever I fine something resembling a bar.

Also I have gym class every Thursday which is separate from my workout menu and during which we run somewhere around half a mile, do around 4 pullups, 30 pushups, 60 sittups, 6 flights of stairs and sometimes our teachers gets creative and adds other stuff.

So my workour menu isn't anything special and I'm more or less a weakling (although since I've started working out I've managed to run ~3 miles without stopping or walking something which I could never do earlier).

All tips and suggestions will be highly welcome.

[Steven Low]

Read the link in my sig and get some goals.. then start working on them. If you need some help constructing something feel free to ask.

[Syle]

Now let's see what I did today:
I played basketball for half an hour
I jogged for 5 minutes
I sprinted 50 meters somewhere around 30 times

Most importantly I practiced my roll and so far I have a bruise on my right hip to show for it...Apart from the basic roll I also practiced doing the wall run on a wall slightly higher than myself (I'm 6'1) and to my great surprise I found out that I do the wallrun better with a jog rather than a semi sprint.

To sum it all up today was quite productive.