@TrainForPain thanks for stopping by man, always appreciate the input.
I’ve been climbing for less than 3 months, so it hasn’t had a big effect yet. But typically, climbing is pretty easy on the biceps, if you’re pulling yourself up the wall with your biceps, you’re doing it wrong. My biggest worry for tendonitis is in the forearms, where it is a very real concern.
I suspect that with the biceps, i should probably just do some work, because i’ve never really done any.
@QuadQueen to steal a phrase, you have a really solid signal to noise ratio, glad to have you here.
@T3hPwnisher i stopped kettlebelling after the first cycle of Rites of Passage because it was beating my forearms up pretty badly which is obviously terrible for climbing. I am looking for an August challenge that i can do in the house, so that could definitely be a good kick start.
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Biceps
Grab a pair of dumbbells (like 25#) and go to a preacher curl machine with light-ish weight on it (like a plate). Do 3-4 sets of the below.
Turn around and sit with your back against the pad and do 8 - 12 hammer curls.
Stand up and supinate and do another 8 - 12 curls with the same dumbbells.
Turn around and knock out 6-10 preacher curls.
Triceps
Go grab a cable machine and a rope. Do 6 sets of:
10-12 reps of rope extensions. Keep the rope apart and flex at the bottom.
Close-grip pushups to failure. If you want to be awesome, drop to your knees and keep repping for your last couple sets.
Knock that out once or twice a week and you’ll at least get a great t-shirt pump at a total time investment of 10-20 minutes.
I just roll right through and rest maybe 45 seconds to a minute before I start the next round. My assumption with something like this is it’s for you crazy folks that are actually lifting heavy or doing other things and you just need some blood in the muscle.
@Koestrizer do i? I don’t think so, but i could be wrong. I’m planning to start doing the occasional lower body day, the problem being that i don’t like it, and it doesn’t move me towards any of the goals i care about. In fact, hitting squats hard and heavy would move me away from my goal of climbing well.
It’s pretty much just something that every kid goes through once. It’s only really dangerous in adults, and most people only get it once, so most people are glad to get it done when they’re kids.
Unfortunately, he seems to be. It’s a really unpleasant thing to watch as a parent.
Because i’m already 30lbs overweight for the level i want to climb at. Getting overall bigger is the opposite of what i’m looking for. Some, limited, lower body work for strength and for muscle maintenance is probably a good thing, but a low priority. Hard and heavy squatting seems counterproductive.
I didn’t mean to suggest combining super squats, GOMAD and a heavy tren cycle my man, haha. Outside of that I think that argument isn’t easily met in reality, just by working out the lower body.
That said: All of this is hypothetical. If you don’t want to squat, then don’t. That’s fine as well!
@TrainForPain Agree for competitive/ high level athletes. Disagree outside of that. There’s loads of benefits having a wide base, unless you need or want to be super adapted to something specific.