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Conditioning Videos for Parkour

Get strong and increase your resilience. Includes six follow-along conditioning and strength training videos by Harmony Jovet.

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Parkour Pushing Progressions

Coach: Brandee Laird
Length: 11 min

Build your pushing strength for parkour. Pushing is integrated into many techniques: vaulting, climbing, mounting obstacles, and falling. This video covers the parkour push up, all essential push up progressions, progressions and drills for wall dips, and injury prevention.

Pistol squat Progressions

Coach: Brandee Laird
Length: 16 min

Training pistol squats are an important part of parkour practice. Single-leg strength training improves your power, control, and mobility for running, striding, climbing, and jumping. In this class, you’ll learn how to avoid knee pain, three preparatory and activation exercises, and several pistol squat progressions to build single-leg strength.

Basic Parkour Conditioning, Level 1

Coach: Harmony Jovet
Length: 15 min

Strengthen your whole body and get your heart rate up in this quick follow-along workout. No special equipment needed. Workout includes a warmup, core training, glute strengthening, light plyometrics, and a cool down focusing on leg, shoulder, and hip mobility.

Basic Parkour Conditioning, Level 2

Coach: Harmony Jovet
Length: 17 min

Level 2 is a more difficult version of level 1. No special equipment needed. Workout includes a warmup, quadrupedal and core training, glute strengthening, light plyometrics, and a cool down focusing on leg, shoulder, and hip mobility.

Basic Parkour Conditioning, Level 3

Coach: Harmony Jovet
Length: 13 min

For level 3, you’ll need a set of stairs. This follow-along workout includes more advanced upper body and glute strengthening, additional plyometric work, and a cool down focusing on leg, back, shoulder, and hip flexibility.

Basic Parkour Conditioning - Jumps

Coach: Harmony Jovet
Length: 10 min

For better jumps, you need to strengthen and conditioning your body for impact. This follow-along workout includes a warmup focusing on ankles, knees, and hips, moderate plyometric training, glute and hip flexor strengthening, and a cool down. You’ll need a place to step up and anything you can use as a weight.

Basic Parkour Conditioning, Ground Movement & Vaults

Coach: Harmony Jovet
Length: 14 min

Get more powerful vaults and comfy ground movement. This fast-paced follow-along workout includes a warmup, more challenging calisthenics, an emphasis on upper body and core strength, and a cool-down that will improve your mobility.

Basic Parkour Conditioning, Climbing & Upper Body Strength

Coach: Harmony Jovet
Length: 13 min

This introduction to strength training for parkour climbing is perfect for beginners. Using only a wall with a railing, you can work on pulling multiple different ways. This follow-along workout includes a warmup, several strength exercises, and a cool down.

Snapshot Ball Catch Game

Coach: Brandee Laird
Length: 8 min

With the Snapshot ball catch game, hone your awareness, perception, and your ability to manipulate objects in space. We use this skill all the time in parkour. Grab a few different balls and learn to improve your proprioception by taking “snapshots."

Adventure Yoga: SHARK!

Coach: Elizabeth Cunningham
Length: 24 min

Find out what happens when you take a surfing lesson during your yoga session! Kid and parent-friendly. Explore yoga through stories, animals, and calm, focused breathing.

Yoga for Core (advanced)

Coach: Elizabeth Cunningham
Length: 7 min

This advanced routine will strengthen your abdominals, back, and shoulders with a 6-minute yoga flow.

Yoga Warm-up for Parkour and More

Coach: Elizabeth Cunningham
Length: 6 min

Some days you need a gentle, mindful warmup. Elizabeth will walk you through breathing exercises, cat/cow, downward dog, and more ways to mobilize your body for movement.

Listeners & Creepers Game

Length: 5 min
Coach: Brandee Laird

Listeners & Creepers is a fun stealth game you can play outside or inside! All you need is at least one other person to play with, something safe to throw at them, and some time and space to get your stealth on.

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