PARKOUR GUIDE

Parkour requires participants to negotiate obstacles quickly. These sudden moments require you to exercise your brain and think on your feet. Practicing instinctive decisions making skills in parkour can lead to participants trusting their intuitive choices in everyday life.

Parkour encourages participants to use their imagination. Every obstacle in parkour won’t have an obvious solution, so you must use your creativity to overcome it.

Parkour builds confidence by allowing people to conquer things they would never have attempted before. For example, when you see a large wall that seemed like an impossible feat and learn how to scale and get over it, you may feel as though you can accomplish anything.

Skill-related fitness includes agility, balance, power, speed, coordination, and reaction time. In parkour, you have to call upon these skills when jumping, climbing, and balancing through obstacles. Though these skills aren’t required for everyday life (imagine using parkour to get to work!), they are still very beneficial in your arsenal to ensure your physical fitness.

The core is the center of your entire body and is responsible for helping you bend, twist, and transfer power and strength across your body. Developing a solid core through parkour exercises also helps to prevent lower back injuries. Having a strong core fostered by parkour helps you easily maneuver through obstacles.

Like many other high-impact sports, parkour helps develop bone strength. You do several lower-body and upper-body high-impact movements, enabling your body to build stronger bones from the impact they endure.

Parkour requires participants to be highly active. The constant moving and jumping increases participants’ stamina, ensuring your heart is strong and enabling increased oxygen supply to your body.