Parkour - It's not just for reckless teenagers, it's a fitness method that anyone can use as a fun way to stay in shape! Professional Parkour Athlete Levi Meeuwenberg is a Washington DC personal trainer in parkour at Primal Fitness. It doesn't matter if your 5 or 50, skinny or heavy, or even if you don't have any athletic background at all! Parkour is totally scalable to whatever your current physical level. But I assure you, no matter who you are, you WILL feel the difference.

Parkour (AKA Freerunning) is the discipline of preparing your body and mind to get from point A to point B, navigating whatever obstacles are in between.

Typical workouts on machines in the gym might build muscle, but they don't teach you how to use it. And it neglects the fact that the body is a system and we need to practice using it as a whole. Parkour is a full body workout that will not only teach your body how to use all your muscles as one, but you will learn useful techniques that come in handy in everyday situations in so many little ways you wouldn't even imagine.

The workout includes a warmup that will get the blood pumping in every muscle and all your joints nice and limber. Then we will practice a number of drills to improve your balance, coordination, power, strength, and agility. At first you don't need to climb on anything higher than waist height. Then through small gradual steps we will build to the more involved techniques and movements. At the end of the sessions we will do a cool down stretch to help the muscles recover from their exertion.

Before long you'll be having a blast playing around, not even noticing your working out. Yet you'll be burning away calories and building strength and coordination that you probably didn't even know was in you! You have to at least just try it out once. I know you'll love it.