tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57453649014915894272012-02-16T10:14:33.491-08:00Movement, Meditation, Health, NutritionMatthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11434770104336014959noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5745364901491589427.post-22256780775566105502008-04-29T15:06:00.000-07:002008-04-29T15:12:01.383-07:00

After serious reconsideration I have decided to change the name of my blog to "Movement." This eliminates me from calling every move as "parkour," "freerunning," or "gymnastics." My new philosophy and discipline is just Movement in general. Not limiting myself to a name or classification.Movement is my training for my body, I will also include training for my mind. Meditation will be the

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So, our group met up at a local park. The number of attendees including myself was 3.Not a great turnout but more than last time.We ended up having a couple of drunk college kids yelling, "You dumb#@% kids get the %^&# down," while leaning out their third story window smoking who knows what. Other than that it was a good day for training parkour.We mainly worked on rolls and some theory. The

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So. Something happened and everyone bailed on my in the last second for last week. This weekend though I passed out fliers and have more people planning to attend. I also Have gone out to the spot we will be training and trained parkour with a few of the people who are most interested.I can almost kong over picnic table sideways. I think its good for only 2 hours of training. I got my pk roll

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So, I finally got a few people interested in Parkour. We are going out to UCM Campus to train on Sunday. Should be fun, none of us have done it before so it will be interesting too.I'll report back afterwards.Peace

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I recently tested myself on how many push - ups I could do. The number was drastically lower than I expected it to be. So I decided to make a simple plan for increasing my push-up power and endurance.Monday, Wednesday, Friday10 reps X 5 sets regular push ups3 reps X 3 sets pseudo push upsTuesday, Thursday5 reps X 5 sets diamond push ups3 reps X 5 sets ring push

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Every now and again I will be posting a simple vegetarian meal plan. Very simple and nutritious.Today's plan was just for breakfast.1 Cup of Green Tea1 Red Delicious Appleand1 Bowl of OatmealLike I said simple.

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This is the story of how I became a vegetarian.A couple of months ago at a long band practice I was talking to one of my friends who is a percussionist like me. He is in a Screamo band, he's reckless, lacks common sense, and loves attention. He recently made a bomb threat in our school, it cause a lot of trouble for him and his family but the bomb was fake. His idea of a joke.Anyway, I set out

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These things are great. I just hung them over my pull up bar for a temporary installation.I was really surprised by how much more difficult they make exercises. The fact that they are not a stable object means that you have to stabilize them which works a lot of muscles that we don't normally focus on.Also they are fun, I'm not great at doing anything on them yet, but it reminds me of recess

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I ordered some Xtreme Rings - Black from Gymnastic Bodies on Saturday. They are supposed to be here today soooo, everytime I hear something outside I rush to the window looking for the UPS guy. Check out Coach Sommer's Website - Gymnastic BodiesAmazing site, some great articles and personalized advice for the time being.I'll give an update on the rings when they get here.

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I am:A lacto - ovo vegetarian.GymnastFreerunnerPercussionistI started this blog so that I can track my progress in gymnastics, provide helpful information to all of my currently non-existent readers, and give myself incentive to continue to exercise and eat healthy.

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