In reply to guy127917:
Thanks Guy, Happy Christmas! Like Tyler says, good effort putting the thread up on 25/12.
Yep was pleased with Jerry's on Tuesday. I did go out on Thursday after the massage on Wednesday, was much less achey than the masseuse has warned and didn't feel any increased injury susceptibility, but I also didn't feel that strong, so maybe I'll use it as an excuse!
2016/17 winter goals (by end of February):
- Reduce weight (measured on a Sunday night) back to 11st 0lb (intermediate goal of 11st 3lb by Christmas - managed this - 11st 2lb before going to bed on xmas eve)
- Do a few grit f7Bs (particularly keen for Suavito, Jerry's Traverse and Spare Rib, but keeping this flexible - so far done
Jerry's Traverse (f7B))
- Tetris (f7C)
2017 early spring goals (by end of April):
- Do lots of Font 7s in our trip in early March (target of 10+)
- Do Eastwood Traverse
- Try Powerband
M: rest.
T: Cratcliffe for Jerry's Traverse again. Took me a while but I did it
Pleased with this as it's been a goal for me for a couple of years now (originally the thinking was it could be a potential first 7B!) and it's also nice that I could do something good while injured. Afterwards we had a play on Ben's Wall at RHS, which didn't seem that desperate, but my toes were numb and I didn't want to fall off from above chest height, so one to come back too.
W: rest and sports massage for shoulders. Felt looser afterwards, don't know if there will be any lasting effect though.
T: Went to Eastwood for a few hours. Relearnt all the moves and felt quite strong on them individually, but was running out of power 3 moves before the end. I really want to save this as 'training' in the spring, but I was lacking ideas for where to go with my heel currently still slightly painful.
F: Fingerboard session, 1 arm hangs. 4x10s on 20mm half-crimp with bw - 13.6kg on each arm, then 4x10s on large pocket 3 finger drag with bw - 6.8kg.
S: Fingerboard sessions in morning and afternoon. Morning was a repeater session, I did 3x 7on/3off with each of the normal 3 hold types. In the evening I did another (short) session, 6 sets of 2 pull-ups with +25kg, all on the 18 mm (aa battery) edge with half-crimp.
S: rest/gluttony. Only nearly exploded twice
Fairly proud of my goose cooking skills, we hosted for 5 of us for the first time and it went well.
Overall, since doing Jerry's, none of the individual sessions this week were brilliant, but not terrible either and overall number of sessions was really good, I think being off work definitely gave me more energy!
Injury catalogue: No issues with shoulder or fingers when climbing this week. Felt very minor elbow tweaks, for the first time this year I think, after the Saturday evening fingerboard session. I obviously need to be very careful with weight-on pull-ups. Heel recovery continues slowly.
Weight last night Sunday night was 11 st 3 lb. I've done well this week again until Saturday, and I weighed in at 11 st 2 lb on Saturday night. Last night's weight is not being recorded
Question in case anyone missed it last week: I've started using Powerfingers bands as a strengthing tool for my extensors the last few months. I can't decide if they help me but Gresham seems to swear by them. Do any of you use them, when/how, and with any noticeable results?
Si
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