2012
seriously. wtf.
all finger strength – all the time = broke ass fingers.
all endurance – all the time = weaksauce.
all power endurance – all the time = exhausted.
all power – all the time = broke ass shoulders.
despite having read about training in cycles, it never struck me as something i should maybe consider. like abstinence as a means to magically avoid STD’s (shazam!), cyclical training seemed like a horrendous way to get “some”. and by some i mean rockclimbing fun. look, if i want to campus on jugs, then it’s jug campusin’ time. if i want to do mono one arm pullups with a punching bag strapped to my waist, then i’m gonna do it. because that’s what me and my ridiculously enormous forearms are in the mood for. that’s how i eat. that’s how i drink. that’s how i climb.
i’m basically like the Hemingway of mundane activity doing.
so instead of heeding the sage advice of training book writers and the magazine writer-people who plagiarize borrow from them, i opted for a much more belligerent strategy:
climb ’til it breaks. then play video games until you get fat. then climb ’til it breaks. and so on and so forth until i’ve got a ton of points on my Xbox 360 and my total grade progression since 2000 comes out to be something like -1.
this cycle of idiocy continued for over a decade until now. because like a ‘roid junkie – i’m cycling.
3 weeks of power/strength
3 weeks of power endurance
1 week of just sitting around being totally kick ass
that’s right. consider all the chains “clipped” and all the problems “ticked”.
rampage time.
j/k
-tt
Good question. I still can’t resist training like an idiot after nearly 10 years of almost constant injury. Probably the closest thing to a crack addiction I’ll ever experience I suppose.
don’t ever limit your dreams dude. there’s bound to be some crack somewhere in wisconsin. i mean, it’s probably low-grade, but still.
crack is crack.
Took me a decade to stop worrying about my stubborn refusal to do anything remotely linked with training.
It’s done wonders: I’ve bumped up one letter grade per season for the last 3 seasons (granted we’re talking about letters relatively low on the scale, and that progress is likely to stop within the next two seasons).
As a plus, I’ve also stopped feeling guilty about my extended guitar hero sessions that always seem to overthrow my hangboard sessions. (in the college where I teach, no one cares how hard I climb, but being unbeatable with a fake guitar, man, that will build you a nice rep with the student body in no time)
It not a terrible strategy, and miles better than the Xbox plan. Send with much crushing.
PS: I think you need to link me up under your training section.
you are linked, sir. nice blog btw.