mid_gen's Climbing Training - Operation Try Hard

[mid_gen]

Well, the second half of 2022 has been a write-off. I got covid in August wiped me out for a couple of weeks, and then caused lingering heart issues for a few months. Fortunately that's mostly cleared up. My back niggle that I keep in check with exercise then started playing up which meant I missed a couple more weeks. Then just started getting back into climbing regularly again and a few weeks ago got this horrible chest infection which put me in hospital...and I'm finally just clearing that off.

I've got an ice climbing trip in January, and did a session dry-tooling at Masson Lees recently to practice. (Dry-tooling is basically climbing on rock using ice axes)....it's bloody hard work! It really showed up my lack of power endurance.

I've been stuck at the V6-ish bouldering plateau for years, it seems to be where just practicing a lot becomes not enough to progress, and you need to do some targeted training, so decided to bite the bullet and get a proper customised training plan.

I ended up buying a six-week one from Neil Gresham. Got it yesterday, 40 pages of stuff! I'll start on it at the weekend.

My benchmark tests for it are :

Two-arm deadhang on beastmaker 2000 upper slot to failure : 15 secs.
One leg bent to chest front level to failure : 7 secs.
Two arm pullups to failure : 13.

 

[mid_gen]

Man, sounds like a really rough couple of months. Hopefully you're over the worst now.

Cheers! Still feeling a bit ropey today but mustered up the motivation to start my training plan.

First two weeks are basic conditioning, core focused given my weakness there! Today was

Circuit style:
Push ups 30 seconds
Leg paddles 30 seconds
Squat thrusts 30 seconds
Dorsal raises 30 seconds
4 minutes rest
4 sets.

 

[mid_gen]

Finally shaken off this chest infection properly. Been sticking to the home workouts the last week, plus a big day in the mountains at the weekend.

Yesterday did another conditioning circuit, and a 30 minute hangboard session.

Weighed myself for the first time in a few months. 77.2kg! I've put on 5kg since I had covid in August No wonder I've been feeling weak on the climbing wall.

Going to be beasting the circuit board tonight at the climbing wall!