This Week

Wow this week has been a tough one. I forgot how difficult it can be to keep a regular training schedule up along with my obligations and enjoyable habits. This reminds me of when I used to work for my uncle on his surveying crew.

While working with him I was very active, but I was also working anywhere from 8-10 hours a day until the economy slowed down. He eventually let go of all his other employees besides myself so my responsibilities doubled when working in the field. I was in charge of the care and supervision of more than $100K worth of equipment and I had quickly learned how to operate every piece.

It was very difficult work though. Often, we would be carrying all our equipment through thick, humid woods or down steep, rocky hills. I was often loaded up with two tripods, the rod, and a full stake bag containing 30-40 wooden stakes hammers, nails, flagging, and the site info. If we weren't in the mountains or jungle, we would be on a clear construction site with no shade in the hot summer, and no protection from the wind and rain in the winter.

Needless to say, I came home exhausted and I usually spent most of my free time recuperating so finding time to train was difficult.

That's kinda how I feel now. The workload is manageable, the training is manageable, but when you try to find time for both it becomes an enormous task. However, my training is something I consider to be very important and I have lost so much progress over the past winter I'm trying to hit training hard to get back to the peak of where I used to be.

I don't expect that what I'm trying to do will be easy by any stretch. Often when I get back from training, my entire body screams at me to stop, and still I try to get some training done the next day. I wake up after a gym day broken and sore from the previous days training. However, no matter how difficult it may be, I have no doubts as to if it is worth it.

For those that may be interested, here are some good examples of dedicated parkour training:

Demon's Drills
HIPK Conditioning

And for the results of dedicated training:

Cambridge Joy