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This book is a gold mine for beginner, intermediate, and advanced athletes. Excellent for fitness enthusiasts too. The bodyweight training books by simon boulter are also excellent and not very expensive.
There are lots of variance in the drills and many progressions to make them more difficult or easier depending on the tracuer's skill level. Each chapter has a challenge for different skill levels so we're encouraged to actually apply the information ... Read More
Overcoming gravity is a book that focuses on obstacle based fitness. It is different from other strength books like overcoming gravity or convict conditioning. It relates functional fitness to many different sports including obstacle course racing.
If you train or teach parkour, it's malpractice not to own a copy (hah my opinion, really. It's a little daunting to train with a largely teen make group in the gym. I recommend it to anyone who wants to get fit and stay young.
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This wisdom is clearly imparted on every page and helps the reader become in tune with the strength and ability that our bodies possess
The demos on the link provided are perfect and although i have not received the reward appendix with the references since i jus... Read More
While there is a part of me that likes having someone tell me exactly what to do the authors are right in saying that they dont... Read More
I feel like its a compilation of all the strength training rules but in a nice organized manner instead of the patchwork franke... Read More
Packaging/appearance
This one is not anything out of the ordinary
Competitiveness
I have been doing gymnastics strength training for awhile and i decided to take the leap to do parkour
A valuable resource written and compiled by some of the leaders in the parkour world
Parkour strength does not miss out on this concept as amrap sessions and guantlets are suggested later in the chapter
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- This product had a total of 122 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 25 2022.
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But if you do parkour you should have this book on your shelf
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Ben and ryan killed it with this book
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The text also offers a big picture of training for those of us who have learned the hard way that many approaches dont work very well and also that it is important to think strategically about training to consider both shortterm and longterm goals including different approaches to training during the year and to think of recovery as a necessary part of any training program
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One of the things that i find hard about books is that theres not very good explanations and theres almost never any pictures to show you what its supposed to look like
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Not with this book this book is so awesome the explanation of exercises are easy to understand and if you have a question about what the movement is supposed to look like they have pictures in it to show you not only what its supposed to look like but to also show you some common mistakes and how to fix them
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The chapters are broken down in a very logical way
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These are smart guys that want you to be smart and creative about your training whether you’re looking to be the next youtube parkour phenomenon or just a better human being
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Its a black and white book of some pictures and many words
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