Does anybody Parkour?

I think that finding new and interesting ways to develop your strength can be beneficial to your swimming. It keeps you excited and working hard. I spent many years lifting weights as a supplement to swimming. The thing is that after many months in the weight room the routine gets stale, you matter how much you switch it up. You go through the motions and you aren't pushing yourself as hard as time goes by. You get to a point where you just maintain. It gets old... After a long time of working muscles in isolation I just begin to wonder whether I can really transfer that strength into something useful. In reality you are never really trying to do things by only using one muscle at a time. More recently I have been looking to find other ways of developing strength and power out of the water. I saw a link to CrossFit posted here awhile back and that gave me some new ideas to try out. Olympic style lifting works a lot of muscles together and it applies strength a power to more realistic tasks. However after awhile it got a bit old and repetitive. I like learning new things, new tricks. I was very into gymnastics at a young age so I decided I wanted to attempt to resurrect that a little bit. Gymnastics is a great way to develop strength and power. There are always new things to learn and it teaches you to work lots of muscles together. I discovered that a couple local gymnasiums had adult classes at night. Last night I tried it for the first time and now I want to keep it up. Perhaps that could be an interesting alternative to parkour. It is really nice when you have lots of squishy mats to land on.

I think that finding new and interesting ways to develop your strength can be beneficial to your swimming. It keeps you excited and working hard. I spent many years lifting weights as a supplement to swimming. The thing is that after many months in the weight room the routine gets stale, you matter how much you switch it up. You go through the motions and you aren't pushing yourself as hard as time goes by. You get to a point where you just maintain. It gets old... After a long time of working muscles in isolation I just begin to wonder whether I can really transfer that strength into something useful. In reality you are never really trying to do things by only using one muscle at a time. More recently I have been looking to find other ways of developing strength and power out of the water. I saw a link to CrossFit posted here awhile back and that gave me some new ideas to try out. Olympic style lifting works a lot of muscles together and it applies strength a power to more realistic tasks. However after awhile it got a bit old and repetitive. I like learning new things, new tricks. I was very into gymnastics at a young age so I decided I wanted to attempt to resurrect that a little bit. Gymnastics is a great way to develop strength and power. There are always new things to learn and it teaches you to work lots of muscles together. I discovered that a couple local gymnasiums had adult classes at night. Last night I tried it for the first time and now I want to keep it up. Perhaps that could be an interesting alternative to parkour. It is really nice when you have lots of squishy mats to land on.