PARKOUR CROSS-TRAINING

What Is Parkour & What Are Its Benefits?

Parkour is a sport where the goal for the athlete is to overcome obstacles in their environment. This is done using skills such as running, jumping, vaulting, climbing, and swinging. Benefits of parkour include:

Psychological – Parkour builds athlete confidence with sport specific movements. Parkour’s inherent goal of overcoming obstacles translates into psychological resilience, which ultimately allows athletes to better understanding their skillset and capabilities.

Physiological – Training the fundamentals of parkour builds strength, speed, and reactivity. This results in improved physical capacity of practitioners; both in every day life and in other sports on the field/court.

Parkour & Your Sport

Parkour has a wide variety of full body movements that allow us to cherry pick the fundamentals that most closely match the demands of your sport to increase the transfer of training. The sports that parkour is most beneficial for include:

  • Basketball
  • Volleyball
  • Soccer
  • Climbing
  • Baseball
  • Track & Field Events

Although parkour is not traditionally a team sport, parkour practitioners come together to complete challenges by sharing training methodology and movement beta. This allows athletes who cross-train to maintain their team’s comradery during the off season.

Why Cross-Training?

Traditional training methods improve athletes’ performance – but only if they actually put the work in. Our cross training program combines evidence backed training with fun, which turns hard work into play. This is particularly effective for youth and teen athletes that struggle with motivation in the weight room.

We assess sport specific physical key performance indicators throughout the program to show athlete improvement. Common KPIs include:

  • Jump height & distance
  • Reactive strength index
  • Change of direction speed
  • Linear acceleration

What Does Parkour Cross-Training Look Like?

The video below highlights some of the common movements between one of our main cross-training sports, basketball, and parkour.

The photo below is of a high performance athlete in an international competition that we host yearly at our facility.

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    Training Tailored To Your Season

    Training goals are different depending on the season your athletes are in, so we optimize our programming for off-season, pre-season, and in-season.

    The minimum program duration is eight weeks, at which point we will be able to measure improvement in your athletes from baseline testing. Teams can choose to have one or two sessions per week.

    • One session per week (in-season recommendation)
      • Power or cardio sessions based on season
    • Two sessions per week (off/pre-season recommendation)
      • Cardio circuit day/week
      • Power training day/week

    Physical assessments at 8 week intervals (based on your sport’s KPIs)

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