Oh hey, did I mention I joined a parkour gym?

[the_andy]

Cause I totally did.

I usually spend a couple days after class pretty sore, but it fills my workout needs of 1) not being boring and 2) having someone encouraging/yelling at me to do stuff. Mostly the basic class consists of balancing, different kinds of rolling, and different vaults over small obstacles, with some intermittent strength training (pushups, squats, and pullups being the default). Though occasionally we get to run courses and swing on ropes.

Anyway, I'm having a lot of fun and actually enjoying exercising again, though it can be frustrating watching 12 year old kids (man, the kids class would have been awesome when I was little) effortlessly backflip off walls.

Comments

[were_duck]

this is SO COOL. HOW ARE YOU SO COOL.

[rhivolution]

I SECOND THIS OPINION.

(and yes Andy, I read your next comment, but it is STILL COOL.)

[the_andy]

I feel I should include the disclaimer that the people in the video are in the advanced class and most of what I do is climbing on boxes or over boxes, not launching myself through hoops or swinging from bar to bar.

Still is fun though.

Also, credit goes to new Sarah at work who took a class and really talked it up to me and wrdnrd who encouraged me to sign up for a membership so it would get me exercising on a schedule again (and I think the hope also was I would engulge my monkey tendancies at the gym and not, say, walking around the neighborhood).

[the_andy]

Here's a video of the kind of stuff the beginner class gets up to, for comparison. Just a little lower and slower

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh5nWA-UU4g&list=UU70vm4tbVZmzgHAVnxcpn0A&index

Crap, just realized that now I need a parkour DW icon.

[phredd]

LAVA!