Rafe
10-07-2005, 01:32 AM
I hope this isn't just old ground, but had some interesting thoughts today regarding RMax and thought I would share them.
At the moment I am helping a freind create a site for Parkour in washington, so far we have a forum and I have been writing a few articles to help people new to the art. As their have been a rash of injuries lately, I thought it would be good to write a little bit about the bodies need for recovery and how to recover, as best I could from my understanding. It struck me as thought about the article that what I was talking about was "cleaning the slate". That the rehabilitative work I have been learning I need to do in order to recover from my training and that I want my atheletes to do was what Scot was talking about in that article. Seems a small leap for some reason it felt like an Epiphany to me and another example of why I am coming to really beleive in the RMax method.
This started me thinking about the soft hard continum, in the article I was distinguishing simply between hard or conditioning excercises that break down the body in order that it can build itself up stronger, and rehabilitative excercises that primarily work to help the body recover(walking slow swiming or bike riding, joint mobility excercises, warrior wellness). I was recomending that traceurs take time off of hard training to allow themselves recovery days to rehabilitate the stress they put on their bodies, too clean the slate.
However as I was writing it struck me that rather then simply saying this day is a recovery day and this day a hard training day, the highly attuned athelete will find somewhere along the continum of soft hard as the most appropriate training for a specific day. Allready I find myself dividing my days not into hard training and recovery, but into soft training(body flow becomes gentle parkour, becomes soft tumbling), hard training (100 percent effort on difficult stressful gymnastics elements or high speed parkour) and then recovery days (walks, bike rides and warrior wellness). Theres of course even more variation then that and I think as I continue my personal journey I will become even better at identifying were along the continum I will get the optimal results from training on a given day.
This site is for me an amazing resource even though I feel I am bit behind in not having seen allot of the material that Rmax has published. Little things I read that don't quite click will suddenly come back when I am training and thinking and I'll be like ah that's what their talking about.
At the moment I am helping a freind create a site for Parkour in washington, so far we have a forum and I have been writing a few articles to help people new to the art. As their have been a rash of injuries lately, I thought it would be good to write a little bit about the bodies need for recovery and how to recover, as best I could from my understanding. It struck me as thought about the article that what I was talking about was "cleaning the slate". That the rehabilitative work I have been learning I need to do in order to recover from my training and that I want my atheletes to do was what Scot was talking about in that article. Seems a small leap for some reason it felt like an Epiphany to me and another example of why I am coming to really beleive in the RMax method.
This started me thinking about the soft hard continum, in the article I was distinguishing simply between hard or conditioning excercises that break down the body in order that it can build itself up stronger, and rehabilitative excercises that primarily work to help the body recover(walking slow swiming or bike riding, joint mobility excercises, warrior wellness). I was recomending that traceurs take time off of hard training to allow themselves recovery days to rehabilitate the stress they put on their bodies, too clean the slate.
However as I was writing it struck me that rather then simply saying this day is a recovery day and this day a hard training day, the highly attuned athelete will find somewhere along the continum of soft hard as the most appropriate training for a specific day. Allready I find myself dividing my days not into hard training and recovery, but into soft training(body flow becomes gentle parkour, becomes soft tumbling), hard training (100 percent effort on difficult stressful gymnastics elements or high speed parkour) and then recovery days (walks, bike rides and warrior wellness). Theres of course even more variation then that and I think as I continue my personal journey I will become even better at identifying were along the continum I will get the optimal results from training on a given day.
This site is for me an amazing resource even though I feel I am bit behind in not having seen allot of the material that Rmax has published. Little things I read that don't quite click will suddenly come back when I am training and thinking and I'll be like ah that's what their talking about.