I'm making a pointed effort to not drop the last season in the toilet before starting another. Been a bit rare through my decades of training for various sports to manage ratcheting up off the prior season. I seem to have encoded on my operating parameters that i must be nearly entirely de-trained in order to fire up a subsequent season. But this time...this time will be different.
Last Campus workout was on November 6, and I've started this one straight into Hangboarding. I'm behind on recording the sessions, but I started on Dec 14--so just over 5 weeks apart. Have done some climbing in the meantime, but that's been spotty because it's cold and the climbing wall here is characteristically not set for training.
As hinted, I've forgone Enduro climbing this time 'round as there really is no great way to do that. As an experiment I've shot straight into the "Heavy" timer for HB, to see if can't add some numbers whilst avoiding injury without dropping back to the higher rep sessions first. Just finished HB #5 yesterday, and so far it's been very encouraging. I'm about the same weight as I was for the same workouts in early October. I consider the benchmark for these workouts the small crimp and the shallow 3 finger pocket, and I've ended up better on both than in October. The strange one is the sloper. That seems limited more by how much time I hang, than by how much weight I add. I suspect I'd see the most improvement on this by increasing the TUT.
12.28.19 HB #5 S:12 "Heavy" timer: 198# clothed
WUJ: -15: Yeah.
Large Open:
1: +10: No prob.
2: +30: Yup.
3: +50: K. li'l hard at the end. These i've kept consistent as they otherwise wreck the remainder of the workout.
Small Crimp:
1: -50: Yeah not bad.
2: -35: Yeah, again not bad. This is improvement from last season.
3: -20: Yass! Got those!! That's a true PR over measured seasons.
F 2,3,4:
1: -5: Better. Got 'em.
2: +15: K. Li'l hard. got em all
3: +40: HA! Got those. Oddly, this is still down from S10 in Feb when i got 50.
Slopa':
1: BW: HA! Got 'em all.
2: +25: Last 2 sec last rep. better.
3: +70: Gt 1 1/2, then fail.
F 3,4,5:
1: -50: K. That was really easy.
2: -30: Got 'em all. Mighty hard at the end.
3: -10: Ha! Got 'em all.
SemiClosed:
1: -50: Got those.
2: -30: Whew! Toe down at the beeper.
3: -10: Slipped one sec from the timer.
Plan from here is to get four more HBs on the "Power" timer, and then Campus as usual. But I'd like to just go straight back into HB for another round.
Notably I have been lifting again, and am getting back to 30+ p'lups and have gotten a double with +100. Deads are back over 405, which used to be the warmup; but i really don't want to work Deads that heavy. I don't think it adds anything to the climbing.
Also since March I've gotten well over 850 miles on the mt. bike. I'm trying to keep some fitness on the bike, but it's become mighty cold and the trail is perma-mud for now. Blessedly i haven't so far gained much weight. Be just fine to hit next season with a decent base.
