Centre was heaving tonight and i wasn’t feeling social, so i just stayed in the training corner and tried out some of the tools i’ve been meaning to try for a while. They were all very humbling, and not just because i’m definitely not fully recovered yet.
Moonboard: very, very humbling. Probably a great tool to build top end strength, once i can get to the point of stringing more than a few moves together.
Campus Board: Fairly humbling. Probably not a great tool at this point. No technique or body tension being learned here. Still better than a hangboard though.
Endurance board: mildly humbling. A great tool to develop footwork/technique and build a base of grip strength.
I’m doing well mate, doing well. Health is recovered and nack to normal. Lifes fairly busy with a new role at work and some family stuff, so training has been purely climbing specific stuff, especially stuff that doesn’t require much breath control. I’ve been getting in 2 good climbing sessions a week, at least 1 flexibility session and several core sessions a week. I could have done more, especially in the last few weeks, but i’m lacking a gym goal to aim towards. All my physical goals are climbing related right now.
I took on a new role about a month ago and its been a rough ride, to say the least. In the long run, i think it will mke my life easier but its a tough, tough time getting things to the right place.
Congratulations! And sorry if I missed that bit of news—it’s even more impressive to see you getting the work in under the stress of a change like that. Hope things smooth out for you sooner rather than later!
@SvenG It’s the same role in a new location, the idea being to make family life easier by moving closer to home, but it’s not worked out like that so far. I’m confident that once i get everything in the right place, it can be a comfortable place.
Fun for today:
3 hours bouldering
Good session, considering i went in with about 5 different niggling issues.
I have no idea what this means, but I do think it’s cool to see Training Logs geared towards non-traditional lifting activities. I put soccer, yoga, mountain biking, and other activities that, to me, are really the reason that I do train in the first place, on my log.
Bouldering is climbing on small walls, basically. No rope or safety, other than a big mat. This is the first video on youtube for the the centre i usually climb at, to give you an idea:
And i agree 100%. For me, it goes back to the Mark Twight thing: you have to use your fitness for something, and i’m much happier now my fitness and training is vectored towards something i really enjoy and can share with other people (the community at a climbing gym is something else, by the way, much like it is in soccer or Croasfit). I can’t see me ever lifting alone in a garage for the sake of it again, to be honest.
That looks pretty cool. They do have climbing gyms around here. I should check one out.
I’m getting that way, as well. I’ve been using the garage to fill in some gaps or when I can’t make it to the CF gym, but there’s really something about the comradery of doing something with a purpose with others. My day today was practicing snatches with a group of others and a cool coach. Was it a workout? Yeah, I guess, but my focus was on getting the pull right with full hip extension, not on just getting in reps. Also, what’s the point of being in good shape if it you don’t use it?
