Rock Climbing Training
Season 01
Workouts 030->032 ~~ FEB/12
Base Fitness Phase – Week 6
How do you crush 'DEM apples?
Ohhhhhhhhhh, team. We're on the tail-end of a long weekend, and I gotta say...
I'm feeling RECHARGED!
A bit of exercise? A bit of beer! A bit of climbing? A bit more beer! A bit of hiking!? How about another beer!
Ain't no thang!
Sometimes all you need, is to get an extra day off of work -- right? Don't get me wrong, I like my job -- I suppose I should say career? It feels a little bit gross when I say career -- let's not make it official, and lets stop talking about work. We almost tripped up there, fuckin' bigtime. I gotta say... It was chilly this weekend, but by god, the sun came out.
Shameless sunshine selfy
The sun came out, and it was good. The whole weekend was sunny, save for a 20 minute bout of rain. Chilly though so
LETS GET INTO IT!
February 2018 - Season 1
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Ohhhh I gotta say...
It feels damn good to be done with all that monotonous, ARC climbing training on the auto-belay. It was tough to keep it interesting the whole time, and it was often really busy out there hogging the auto-belays. We got some sunshine in this weekend, and still managed to stay relatively active on here via the use of Steepshot -- which I'm definitely digging! I feel like I've found a balance in how much I've been posting -- and it definitely helps that climbing is a little bit less frequent right now. Which I suppose I should talk about eventually...soooo...
- DAY 30 (Saturday - Feb 10):
- Hangboard / Workout Session #01!
Oh my god, Becky -- look, at that... butt...
Okay.. So it may be true that we haven't had a traditional 'workout' day in QUITE some time now. But you know what...
I feel fucking GREAT right now!
My muscles feel absoloutely alive. I feel like I'm standing up straighter. I feel like my shoulders and chest are more open. I feel unstoppable. Before I hype things up too much, I'll slow it down and iterate that it waHs generally a pretty tame workout, consisting of:
- Hangboard / Workout Session #01!
- 15 minutes of bouldering to warm up:
- Hangboard session:
- 6 10s dead-hang reps (per grip) w/ 5s of rest between reps (~90s/set) -- 4min of rest between grips;
- 9 Grip types for a total of approximately 45minutes.
- Workout circuit (4 sets) of:
- Planks - (90 sec/90s/90s/90s)
- Pullups (7/6/6/5) (Pullups are harrrrrd)
- Tricep Dips (20/20/20/15)
- Dumbbell Flys (15x10lb/15x10lb/12x10lb/12x10lb)
- 90 seconds of rest between exercises
- DAY 31 (Sunday - Feb 11):
- Today was an optional outdoor mileage day -- we opted in(doors), and did a little bit of difficult toprope climbing. After a pretty decent workout day, we were thrashing out way up some pretty fun 5.11b / 11c routes without too much trouble. No actual pictures of the workout, or any climbing, I guess -- but I do have a photo from the cafe beforehand!
not being impressed with my bad jokes
- Today was an optional outdoor mileage day -- we opted in(doors), and did a little bit of difficult toprope climbing. After a pretty decent workout day, we were thrashing out way up some pretty fun 5.11b / 11c routes without too much trouble. No actual pictures of the workout, or any climbing, I guess -- but I do have a photo from the cafe beforehand!
- DAY 32 (Monday - Feb 12 -- FAMILY DAY!):
- Today was an Optional Aerobic Exercise day -- so we opted in, and got out for a hike.
I had been talking for weeks now about how I wanted to head out and do some recon hikes and scope out some of the routes that could be upcoming goal routes. After a few rainy weeks, it was our time to to leap and bound around in the sun -- we were going to go scope out the Nanaimo River! Except... When we got there, there stairs were all busted up and broken, so we couldn't get down with the rather large convoy of dogs that we had as company (4 people? 4 dogs!). Plan A was dead in the water, so we drove another 15 minutes north to Plan 5 -- The Steppes in the Lantzville Foothills.
Plan C! Lets just drive up to the park up the road, and go for a nice trail-hike with all the dogs we brought with us.
I didn't notice until right now, but the dogs seem to have swarmed
and chosen their favorite when we were out on the way. It's like the canine secret service out there. Ear-pieces and all.
Long story short!
Weekend was great! More training tomorrow!
Today, In my space that I reserve down here for cool climbing stuff -- I'm not gonna share anything because I forgot to find something and now I'm tired and I don't like making excuses and I feel like I have to keep on talking to try to validate how sorry I am I hope nobody is angry with me and people keep coming back SORRRRY.
Be well, stay safe, and I'll see you on the sharp side (once it dries out around here).
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The Query!
I'm trying to figure out how the best way to get people active and involved in the climbing community on here. Paying for upvotes is super tedious, and there must be a better way to get the people goin'!
There's all sorts of contests on here -- some I'm considering incorporating something of that sort to these posts. Let me know what you think. It could be something like "whoever shares the coolest ( or funniest / scariest / gnarliest ) climbing related story ( or picture / video / poem / meme) gets 0.25 SBD (or more / less / half of post SBD)". Let me know what you think would be cool. We could mix it up and do climbing inspired art or something? I like to draw. Maybe we'll do something like that? LETS TALK. ANY THOUGHTS???
Please vote and resteem generously. There's some amazing places on the island that I would like to share.
I try to respond to all questions and comments that I get, so make some noise! If you have any questions about some of the climbing jargon / lingo I used, just ask, and I'll break it down. I might even make it a feature in my next post, in which case I'll give you some credit, and maybe even some kind of reward... unknown at this time -- nobody has asked any questions... except for a select few legitimately awesome folks.