I decided to tweak my training a little bit, and refocus on my goal of climbing an abundance of medium to hard (for me) pitches, until my birthday challenge this July.
I try to train my fingers and pull muscles when I'm at the station and today was no exception. I adjusted my hangboard routine to reflect my lack of endurance. With this interval timer on my iPhone, I'm able to create timers while listening to music, which I believe distracts me from the fact that I'm hanging from pieces of wood in a government building.
For endurance I figured (after warming up) that I would: hang 20 sec/ rest 40 sec. for a total of 25 min. I feel quite gassed for the last 5 reps. I'm using a 3/4" rounded edge, super comfortable and skin friendly.
After resting for 20 minutes, I went straight into my pullup routine. Again using the interval timer, I setup a 20 minute timer to sound every minute, at the beginning of every minute I do 7 pullups. Near the end of the 20 minutes I'm barely able to crank out the 7th pullup, but still finished the workout with the 140 in 20 min.
I understand that pullups are not the greatest training tool for climbing, I wholeheartedly believe that climbing is by far the best training for climbing. But when I'm stuck in a building 24/7, I try and get my swell on any way I can. I don't see how being able to do a crap ton of pullups could be detrimental to my climbing.
Keep pulling, people!
-PatWC
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