Backcountry Ranger ---> Training Ideas?

I am a Wilderness Ranger for the Forest Service out for 4 days at a time. I'm looking for ways to train after work. I have rock rings but they are a bit too heavy and bulky to bring. I have been doing pushups and pull ups but want something more climbing specific.

Thoughts?

Thank you

losPelicanos wrote:I am a Wilderness Ranger for the Forest Service out for 4 days at a time. I'm looking for ways to train after work. I have rock rings but they are a bit too heavy and bulky to bring. I have been doing pushups and pull ups but want something more climbing specific. Thoughts? Thank you

FrankPS wrote: TR soloing? If there are crags near where you work.

Sounds like a great job. Which forest or park do you work in?

Take advantage of all the base cardio you will be building. It will pay good dividends later. I don't have any tips for climbing specific training, but you can get a pretty good basic strength and core workout with a backpack and some creativity.

climbing friend,

toughen yourself up and bring the rock rings, or find small animal to crush their heads with your palms, and then eat the meat bold power flash nearby boulder.

or perhaps get incredibly worked the day before you leave, climb 20 pitches hard or 80 bouldering rocks in one day passing, and/or do 2-3 days on, absolutely wreckign your own self so you need 2 days for recover anyway

cardio and pushup is better than nothing, but will not really be helping unless you have the fat rolls

You can do a stripped down version of rock rings. Basically a single campus rung/strip of wood with a couple strings to hang from a branch. Do deadhangs from it. Or there's a few other commercial rock ring look-alikes. G-String something or other. And Metolius makes a wood version that's smaller than the normal ones. Or even just do fingertip pull-ups and dead hangs on tree branches.

Aleks Zebastian wrote:climbing friend, toughen yourself up and bring the rock rings, or find small animal to crush their heads with your palms, and then eat the meat bold power flash nearby boulder. or perhaps get incredibly worked the day before you leave, climb 20 pitches hard or 80 bouldering rocks in one day passing, and/or do 2-3 days on, absolutely wreckign your own self so you need 2 days for recover anyway cardio and pushup is better than nothing, but will not really be helping unless you have the fat rolls

Jason Todd wrote: