The traceur/freerunner is in danger, danger of becoming a one (or very few) trick pony. It’s great that you can nail a precision, muscle up that wall or cat leap like a real cat with super glue mittens. But it doesn’t mean jack if every time you string together more than 3 moves you collapse in a gasping heap. If this is you, you may just want to improve your General Physical Preparedness or your work capacity.
Siff and Verkhoshansky define work capacity in the text Super Training as the general ability of the body as a machine to produce work of different intensity using the appropriate energy systems of the body. The trick to increasing work capacity is to do it in away to avoid over training. The state of over training can halt progress in its tracks and actually send you on a downhill slide. The old way of increasing work capacity was to just throw in more exercises and more sets. This is the mentality of most strength athletes “more is betterâ€. Well more is better in some cases as long as the more is built on a solid base. When you try to do more work than your base can carry then the base will fall out.
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