Parkour Experiment

     So i'm experimenting with my training by stopping all deliberate conditioning. This includes classical approaches involving reps and sets, periodization, deloading, volume, interval training. I want to throw most of the exercise theory out the window for a little bit. I'm not throwing out obviously helpful principles involving technique, efficiency, and mobility but I feel like parkour is a different approach altogether. The more we get sucked into the "exercise and fitness" world the more we lose the playful spirit of moving one's body.
     My greatest gains in strength came from pursuing skills with a constant enthusiasm. High frequency training of skills resulted in some damn good conditioning despite not doing any other kind of conditioning. There is going to be a lot of carryover in this kind of approach. For example, if I work on muscle ups for a while without bothering with counting reps, it is still the case that reps have occurred and if one were to observe the total volume of muscle up training, we would get a figure that accords with my current fitness level. This works so much better than a cookie cutter routine or another rep scheme prescription that I'll probably fail due to being too tired, unmotivated, and or bored with said rep scheme. I've come to the conclusion that this is a better path due to my own experience with it in the past. Ever since I got on with the weight training and other static conditioning protocols i've felt the slow death of my training coming on. It has only increased with having to bike everywhere and working at gyms to teach and train parkour. I don't get out as much as I used to and that's such an important part of parkour.
     It also helps to see that some of the best people out there probably don't even know how to spell periodization (at least not in english). These, ahem, russians, train constantly to achieve certain skills. They do some bar calisthenics but even then it's quite free form. I'm going to give this approach a month or so and see how it goes. The nicest thing about it is that I feel like I don't have to wait anymore to work on certain skills. I was trying to get some perfect muscle ups by increasing my pull up capacity to twenty solid reps (I got to 17).  I realize now that I just have to work on the specific details. Parkour is not bodybuilding or powerlifting. The physique and strength should come as a side affect of the training. It does no practitioner any good to get that mixed up and start focusing on all the numbers rather than movements themselves. That's what 'm thinking right now anyways. I might be completely wrong about this but time will tell. I'll be training every day working on different aspects of my discipline.

Edit: So I've posted why I was wrong  in: Rehabbing Years of a Sedentary Lifestyle