2,000 lbs.
Haven't worked out today yet, but i did go to the climb gym yester's eve. Not so good. i was still utterly trashed from the squat workout. Like, the thought of laying my head down on my knee, or dropping a knee deep was outta the question. Need to start working back again. And i gotta start losing weight. i think i could pretty comfortably hang at 185ish-- without starving etc.-- and that's 20 lbs. away. My iron workouts are gonna have to be changed dramatically if they're gonna survive. i think i'd be way stronger than i otherwise would be on rock if i keep up the iron work, but i can't do what i've been doing. i can't recover in time to climb, and that's my sport. i wanna climb v6 and lead solid hard 11 by this time next year. i'm gonna start getting as technical with the climb workouts as i have been with weights. i've been real hodge-podge with climb training 'cuz i'm just getting back into it, but i'm starting to work v2 pretty well again, and i'm getting my weaknesses narrowed down to a managable number. cheers
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why don't you drop your workouts in the gym back to 2 days a week, one upper body and one lower body. That shoul allow you to get in a couple of really intense workouts and still have time to recover for climbing/weightloss endeavors. You really shouldn't be getting fried from your workouts. If you're to sore to climb then you're doing WAY to much volume. Drop to 2 days a week doing ME on your compound body movements (variations of squat, deads, bench, pullups) every workout. Aside from a warmup, never do an ME set over 3 reps. Follow that with some assistance work, prehab/rehab, and core work. You've been at it long enough now you shouldn't be sore after a workout. I'd be really interested to see what this would do for your climbing. I've been reading some Russian strength articles and I've seen similar workouts used for their gymnasts. Could be worth a shot.
Yeah. i've been giving some thought to just doing ME workouts, or some variant thereon. i just picked up my new edition of Climbing, and there's an interesting li'l power/endurance workout in it. If you hate the workout you're doing now, you'd definitely hate this. It's like supersetting timed intervals on four similar muscle groups. Sounds like it'd pretty much suck. You're basically doing 16 minutes of post-lactate-threshold work without a rest.
And you're right: i shouldn'a been sore after that workout, but i tore it down. It probably didn't sound very heavy to you, but every fiber of my ass cursed me in chorus every time i made any attempt to move a trochanter in its capsule. i went to sleep about 10:30 that morning, got up 'bout 17:00, went back to sleep that night at 22:30ish, slept till 08:30 next morning, and could'a slept another 10 or twelve hours. Between work and that workout, i was trashed.
I didnt' really mean that the weights you used were so light that you shouldn't have been sore. I meant that you should be in good enough lifting shape now that you shouldn't be getting that sore after a hard workout, regardless of the weight used. If you are, you're probably doing way too much volume.
That's the funny bit, is it wasn't a particularly high volume. I.e., that was the only leg workout i did this week. i just took it to my limit and pushed my weights up on nearly every set. i'm better now, but i couldn't move for a coupl'a days. Nearly hurt my decrepit self.
Hey, i'm 'bout to put a deck up on the playground. You should come have a beer with me atop the alb. skyline.
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