Help with (unconventional) training!
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Hey folks.
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Perfect! A Bachar Ladder! |
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Steps like that can be great to help build core strength, which is the foundation of athletic movement. But don't worry about changing your grip, use the same bomber grip and focus on using your core. Build your contact strength (grip strength) bouldering in the gym you mentioned. |
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O'neil Van Horn wrote:I climb 2-4 times per week at the gym depending on my schedule, and try to get a day in outdoors on the weekend if my studying allows the time.tbh that sounds like a pretty good amount of climbing already. are you expecting that to decrease in the near future? if you can keep up that schedule, i wouldn't worry about trying to find a way to do supplemental exercises on those stairs. sure, the stairs would be better than nothing, but you don't have nothing. imo you'd probably be best off by just being more thoughtful about your time in the gym. not necessarily going all the way to a programmatic training regimen, but having a little more structure than just climbing for fun. think about what you want to improve, whether it's a type of fitness (endurance, power, strength, etc.) or a style of climbing (techy vertical, steep jugs, etc) or something else, and try to tailor your workouts accordingly. i don't think that you have to make a tradeoff between climbing for fun and climbing thoughtfully at the gym -- to me, the latter guarantees the former b/c it makes my gym sessions feel like i'm actually accomplishing rather than just tooling around and trying to actually send "projects" at the gym. ymmv of course, but if you can get to the gym 2-4 times a week + 1 day of outdoor climbing, i think any additional climbing training/exercise is probably overkill |
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Dan Austin wrote: tbh that sounds like a pretty good amount of climbing already. are you expecting that to decrease in the near future? if you can keep up that schedule, i wouldn't worry about trying to find a way to do supplemental exercises on those stairs. sure, the stairs would be better than nothing, but you don't have nothing. imo you'd probably be best off by just being more thoughtful about your time in the gym. not necessarily going all the way to a programmatic training regimen, but having a little more structure than just climbing for fun. think about what you want to improve, whether it's a type of fitness (endurance, power, strength, etc.) or a style of climbing (techy vertical, steep jugs, etc) or something else, and try to tailor your workouts accordingly. i don't think that you have to make a tradeoff between climbing for fun and climbing thoughtfully at the gym -- to me, the latter guarantees the former b/c it makes my gym sessions feel like i'm actually accomplishing rather than just tooling around and trying to actually send "projects" at the gym. ymmv of course, but if you can get to the gym 2-4 times a week + 1 day of outdoor climbing, i think any additional climbing training/exercise is probably overkillI anticipate not being to get the gym nearly as often. I would guess that I might be limited to the gym twice or maybe three times a week and not being able to get outdoors at all. Thus, the stairs. |
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I'll basically +1 what everyone else wrote. |
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I'll basically +1 what everyone else wrote. |
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I'll basically +1 what everyone else wrote. |