What is the best way to get weak?

Alan Brock wrote:You all are forgetting genetics. Some people will only be able to climb 5.10 or above no matter how hard they train to get weak. Also being ignored is the mental aspect of weakness. You've got to get some serious fear in your life. I suggest reading about bad falls and watching videos of gear pulling. If you get your mind right, you should be weak in no time.

+1

Let it rain day after day after day in Colorado.

I find that works.

Scott McMahon wrote:Let it rain day after day after day in Colorado. I find that works.

^^^that. Especially if you live in a small mountain town with no access to an indoor gym. It's day 3 of non-stop rain here - I even tried going on a longish lung-busting hike/trail run, but the vegetation is out of control - came back with poison oak/ivy/sumac rash all over my arms.

Mortality

doligo wrote:the vegetation is out of control

+1

You guys are doing it all wrong. While it can take weeks, even months, for muscles to atrophy and fat to build, the mind can switch on and off in a moment. Sure, you can waste your time doing Netflick repeaters, Boulder-Bong-Lung-Busters, and having case races, but why bother when you could gain the same weakness without the effort merely by focusing your mind on how truly terrifying climbing is?
Keep your mind focused on the fear, grip the rock like a TR fall will be the end of you (it probably will) and you'll be surprised how weak you can be despite your physical strength.

Seeing great results with all the training ideas in this thread.
So much so, that I need to change my name to one of these suggested by Roget's:
puny person, feeble creature, dotard, crybaby, invertebrate, mollycoddle, milksop, jellyfish, sissy, softie, pushover, namby-pamby, puff, or punk.

Almost There!
I need more suggestions to reach my weakness peak!

Go to nursing school!

Nick Stayner wrote:Go to nursing school!

+1

PT school works pretty well also...

Mike McHugh wrote: May I recommend an overuse injury? Try this plan: Selectively remember how incredibly rad and awesome you were in your twenties, then set yourself up with a brutal training regime to get back to a level of fitness you might never have actually attained in your earlier life. You should hear some "pop" sounds on your first hard session at the gym. Top it off with a bitterly gobbled amuse-bouche of a half dozen cinnamon rolls at Lamar's. This has been my plan for quite a few years. Works well!

This was also an effective plan for me. Except instead of cinnamon rolls, I started running ultra marathons while my finger healed. Took a year, and I lost 25lbs of muscle. I turned into one of those skinny runner types who could barely do a pull up. About half way back now and wishing I could be as strong as I am while climbing, but as light as I am while running. Or 20 year old and do both.

Halley13 wrote:PT school works pretty well also...

+1

probably been said already,

Have a Kid

Just re-read a lot of these. Got me smiling. Thanks all. Bad news is that I've been able to climb 2x per week (bouldering only) the past few months so have destroyed a lot of the great results this advice has delivered.

Hope y'all are doing as poorly in the goals of this thread.

Get a job as a wildland firefighter and the drive by some of the ripest climbing spots in the country like the largest monolith in Oregon ( wolf rock) on a daily basis , but you'll never get to climb it because you sold your soul to the federal government and by the time you get you first day off in 21 days they will have worked you into the ground so hard that you just want to drink. I still do love me job by the way lol