what is some good training for high impact?
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010 at
10:19 am
Question by Ethan: what is some good training for high impact?
I recently took up parkour (freerunning), and I would like to know what some good, at home, every day workouts there are to prevent injuries like ACL or other problems. I need to sculpt my body into a high impact reducing machine, because some of the falls and jumps are tremendous and I’m bound to get an injury at one point or another.
Any tips?
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Answer by Zach W
Stretching
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kickbox on a heavy bag. use knees, kicks, punches and elbows
if u hit it hard enough w no protection, ur bones will start getting stronger and develop calices
i dont mean a pussy workout, u have to hit the bag as hard as u can for an hour a day
i don’t know much about parkour tho
if i had to take a guess, i say jumping off high places will start getting ur body ready for parkour, sometimes u hav to break bones to make them stronger
HA! You took up parkour recently? I started on Monday (3 days ago). Lots of stretching, good shock absorbing shoes with insoles, wrist braces, knee braces (the kind that just look like tubes that go under the knee cap), don’t forget a protective cup in case you miss a balance technique. I wear gloves in case I wipe out so I don’t get road rash on my palms.
Also the safety rolls are essential for displacing impact. Judo has great fall techniques and it wouldn’t hurt to at least train that aspect of judo in case of mishaps.
I might end up wearing a helmet, myself. I’m too old to care if I look stupid. I have a baby to raise and can’t afford to miss work because of an injury.
Oh, and if you are doing pure Parkour instead of freerunning, then those huge falls and jumps aren’t necessary to the spirit of efficient movement. Big air is more of a freerunning/tricking spirit. Parkour is more about overcoming obstacles in order to move from point a to point b in the most efficient way.
And again, Judo for falls and rolls. Flexibility training for shock absorption, and pulling off some of the vaults (like the gorilla vault), and strength training for the cat. There are a lot of aspects of martial arts training that overlap with Parkour. They’re not the same thing, but the training is useful and the usefulness goes both ways.