Extreme Fitness  

I wanted to share some incredible, off the chart physical culture with you. If you aren’t familiar with Parkour or Free Running I advise you to check it out. It could be described as doing skateboard tricks and more without a skateboard or doing spiderman stunts without any web. This is very cool stuff, very acrobatic, very entertaining and very dangerous if you go beyond your personal ability at the time. It takes quite a bit of training to pull off so I don’t advise it as your next alcohol/substance fueled attempt at being the life of the party. The next time you are on YouTube search under  parkour and/or freerunning. Start with this clips of David Belle, the founder of Parkour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HlcXEtzDbM ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBapQdXxGKg ;  These guys are athletes and epitomize the potential of the movement skills that I believe should be part of everyone’s training. They are very strong in a purely functional sense, flexible, have explosive jumping ability, tremendous balance and do it all in a graceful fluid motion that belies the intense difficulty of their art and is extremely entertaining.

Greg Alario

www.OptimalPerformanceFitness.com