Gift Ideas for Parkour Athletes
Welcome to cold days and long nights. For many of us, that signals a retreat to the training space of our local parkour gym. For
Author: Ben Musholt
Ben Musholt is licensed physical therapist who has practiced in Portland, Oregon since 2001. He is a co-founder of Beyond the Clinic physical therapy, and also runs BPM Rx, Inc., which is an online exercise prescription program. He has a diverse movement background, spanning board sports, martial arts, and gymnastics.
He has trained parkour for many years and is a certified parkour coach through APEX Movement. He operates the blog Parkour Conditioning and was a contestant on American Ninja Warrior in 2012. You can see him in action on his YouTube channel BPMRx. He is also the author of the Mad Skills Exercise Encyclopedia.
Ben loves to move and enjoys helping others become better athletes. Whether conducting injury prevention seminars, leading garage workouts, or romping around the park, he is always in motion. His goal is to do three fun physical activities each day: Try to keep up!
Posts from this author
How to Overcome Fear By Scaling Your Parkour Practice
“You’re definitely going to hurt yourself.” That’s what my brain kept telling me as I contemplated the jump. Technically, the jump shouldn’t have been that
Lessons in Parkour: How to Safely Land on Your Feet
In a prior article, we talked about the climb-up as a useful tool for getting yourself on the top of a wall. But what happens
Movement Is Music: How to Make Your Parkour Flow
So, you’re now comfortable with precision jumps, striding, and basic balancing skills. Your rolls are looking solid and aren’t causing any pain. You can vault
Go Run Up a Wall! How to Do a Parkour Wall Run
At 5’9” with a weight of 168 lbs, I have an average adult male build. Without having formally measured it, let’s guesstimate that I have
7 Simple Ways to Avoid Injury in Parkour (Or Any Other Sport)
Last year a well-known Russian freerunner, Pavel Kashin, performed a backflip while standing on the edge of a sixteen-storybuilding. The movement was well within his
Parkour Plyometrics: 3 Drills to Develop Explosive Leg Strength
Wish you had the ability to leap tall buildings in a single bound? Superman sets the bar pretty high as the ultimate parkour athlete. Honestly,
Creative Sight: Improving Your Parkour Vision
In previous posts I’ve written about the development of specific parkour skills and conditioning techniques. For this article, I’d like to diverge from that format
Stick it! How to Do Precision Jumps for Distance and Accuracy
The classic track and field long jump is pretty straightforward, right? Sprint as fast as you can down a manicured track. Launch yourself from the
Get Up That Wall! Mastering the Parkour Climb-Up
Strict chest to bar pull-ups? You can crank those out without batting an eye. Dead-hang muscle-ups? You’ve got those, no problem. What comes next? What
Ground Control: How to Move Efficiently on All Fours
Aside from push ups, sit ups, and get ups, it’s not often that our fitness pursuits have us spending time on the ground. It’s a
Shimmy Shimmy: How to Do 2 Beginner Parkour Arm Traverses
Any chance you saw the 2010 movie Cop Out, with Tracy Morgan and Bruce Willis? Personally, I don’t recall it as too memorable, except that
