@simo74 maybe i should call it pebbling for greater accuracy. Although i’m frequently impressed by the shoulder size of pro climbers, relative to their emaciated frames.
Work for today:
1 hour bouldering, pretty quick pace just picking quiet parts of the gym and running up problems.
Work for today:
15 minute Catalyst climbing online drills.
At home with the sprogs, so needed something quiet and useful.
Work for today:
2.5 hours bouldering
Lots of hard, steep problems. Got carried away projecting some stuff, so didn’t do any extra training. Will aim to get some core work in later. Fingers are definitely struggling this week. It’s been building for a while, but they just feel constantly bruised and swollen, especially around the joints. Closing my hand completely is tricky because all the joints seem to swollen up and block themselves from closing. Should probably rest them a bit and let all the inflamation go down.
Work for this arvo:
Catalyst climbing core training stuff.
Fingers are swollen and painful. Will definitely need to rest them.
Work for today:
Burpees
Burpees suck.
That is all.
Yes they do suck.
Work for today:
Upper back warm-up
Bench (ss. Rows or db squats):
10 x 20kg
5 x 40kg
5 x 50kg
5 x 60kg
5 x 60kg
5 x 10 @ 45kg
Notes:
Work for today:
25 mins stepmill
No headphones, no music, no drink. Need to be better prepared
Work for tonight:
2 rounds Catalyst core training circuit with some T-spine mobility inbetween.
Pretty much just picking random core training circuits online at this point. I don’t think it matters that much.
Work for today:
3.5 hours bouldering
Bit of a monster session, got a bit carried away on my first climb in a week. Was meant to be giving my fingers a chance to recover but that went out the window. Also ran out of time for any strength training, because i got carried away climbing. Will have to make up for it.
May as well get a part time job there!
I would take that as a side gig in a heartbeat, yes.
Do they have any auto belays there so you can climb the walls alone? Or is it just bouldering there?
This ones just a bouldering centre, which suits me down to the ground. Much less fucking around with ropes and harnesses. I also feel like 5-10 moves is “enough”. You can only have about 3 crux moves per route anyway, so all the other moves are just filler, whether it’s a 20ft bouldering wall or a 20m lead wall.
Edit: i’m confident many climbing purists will disagree with me on this.
Yeah defo see what you mean, if i was going alone i would just boulder too. I did do a climbing course to learn how to do all the ropes but that was mainly so i could take my nephew and he could climb all the different walls. When i went alone there was only auto belays on 2 of the walls so was mostly always taken.
Reading your log makes me want to take it up again!
I did most of my climbing before autobelays were a thing and the only time i’ve used them, i hated them. Just something about jumping off at the top of a wall and just trusting that the autobelay will catch you terrifies me.
Bouldering is an absolute blast, especially now i’ve kind of got to know the Friday morning regulars. I have no idea why i didn’t start doing this earlier.
Work for this arvo:
Ab circuit as promised. Went a bit harder than planned. Good.
Work for today:
Bench day, Krypteia style. Superset with db row or db squat
Forgot to mention: grip is a major factor in these rows. Need to either dig my straps out or find another movement.
Arvo means afternoon, right?
Always catches me off guard when I see it, haha. I think it’s a typo at first.
Thats it. It’s a very Australian thing, i don’t really know why i picked it up.