Mat pulls: (4)
135x5
205x5
255x5
295x5
330x10
255x15
DB rows:
60x10
80x14
Those pulls completely wiped me out. Really unaccustomed to pulling for high reps right now, but, it was my hamstrings that ultimately ended the sets. I’m okay with that since they tend to condition themselves pretty quickly.
Took 90s between all the work sets except the AMRAPS and widowmakers, 2-2.5 minutes there.
Heading to the climbing gym tonight to get some extra work in.
@dagill2 I’ll take the lactate burn over some of the other stuff you can catch in the city, haha.
Pre-covid I could count on there being 2-3 sets of parents on any given night at the climbing gym. Not so much now, understandably. I’d guess the little climbers were as young as 4 or so - I’m not really great a guessing kids ages and when they should be able to “do stuff”.
Mine are 2 and 4, and are absolutely not safe to take climbing, yet. It’s definitely something I’d like to start them on when it becomes feasible though.
@mr.v3lv3t I’m sure some peoples 4 year olds probably could boulder, but I’m extremely confident mine can’t, safely. I will be checking the age limits when the place reopens though, just for a target.
Edit: just checked and minimum age is 7, which I’m not too gutted by. A bit of peace and quite sounds good to me.
Ah yeah, bouldering is definitely a different story. The kids I see are all tied in and basically being hauled up the top-rope walls by their parent haha.
Is climbing something your partner likes? There’s definitely couples there with kids too young to climb and they take turns. Also sets of friends with kids that are about the same age. Same symbiosis (one climbs, the other keeps eyes on the kids as they are busy being kids)
I think the workout this afternoon set me up to have a rough night. Felt pretty off on everything I touched, and my forearms were shot right away. Girlfriend had a real solid night though, and that was worth it.
Pretty sick chest pump after that giant set. Body is just super sore today, but it feels 10x better than when I was using the trap bar. Screw that thing.
@aldebaran My elbows can get cranky from grip stuff, so between lifting and climbing it’s always a balancing act. I’ve noticed that extensor work seems to help, so there’s probably an imbalance there, hence the reverse curls to hit that side of the forearm a bit. I do have an EZ bar, but since it’s at the gym and I do assistance at home I’ll stick with the DBs.
@Voxel Yep, that’s exactly it. Nasty little bugger ME is.
@aldebaran It’s not fun stuff haha. I use my axle for basically all my pressing now which helps, and I pretty much exclusively SSB squat which takes a bunch of strain off them too.
@kdjohn Definitely wasn’t comfortable, but it probably only took me 90s to get through it so I didn’t have to endure too much haha. I’d have skipped any kind of ab work otherwise today.
@dagill2 I’d do those hollow rocks every day instead of BBB work. That’s a different kind of awful.
Took 90s rest between the snatches and build up sets for press and squat. For the BBB work I gave myself a 90-120s window for rest. Mostly stuck to 90s for the press, but that only lasted one round for squats. The weight was light since it’s the first cycle, but that made it much more challenging.
Nothing overly fancy today. Hit a lot of volume on the main work yesterday so today the plan was to just take some easy to recover from lifts and hit failure.
45s between dips and chins, 60s between laterals, ab work, and curls (30s between the dropsets on these). No rest on the lunges, aim was to keep a steady rhythm and stay balanced.
