Afternoon all, I hope sunny September is treating you well. It's another pleasingly-round number week- 550! We cannot dwell on that for too long though, for it means there are only 5 weeks to go, until your Challenge 555 goals MUST BE COMPLETED*
* valid excuses include illness/injury/children/optimism/life.
Challenge 555 goals (November 5th)
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biscuit: get fingerboard up (/), down to 12% body fat (x) 7b circuit (x) insulate van (1/2)
AlanLittle: redpoint 7b on Kalymnos (x)
AJM: Force Majeure (x) another fb7 (/) Do some DWS (/) An E2 or E3 (x) Steady Training for trip (x)
The sheep: sub-2 hour half marathon (x) weight below 15 stone (x)
Just Tintin: Lead E4 route (x) Complete Morocco tick list (x) Boulder 7A/7A+ (x) WFD (x) Lose a couple of kg and 'tone up' a bit (x) Run a successful WCS (x)
Dandan82: Nina Mala in one hang (x) Another 8a route (x) 3 x 7c/+ (x)
MrChewy: First 7a (x)
Ally Smith: 2 of this:
https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/set.php?id=2181 (x) (/)
guy127917: 5s video of handstand (x) indoor v6 (x) -12kg one arm 5s hang on BM1000 edge (x) First 7a+ (x)
annak: hill fit for the alps (x)
hms: wye valley challenge (x) magma1 (x) 7b in Ariege (x) shunt Armistice E6 (/) Dial moves on Storm Warning (x)
snoop6060: onsight/flash 7c (x)
planetmarshall: The file (x) Banana Finger (x) Crescent Arete (x) The Unconquerables (x)
Tyler: 555 pull ups (x) 555 press ups (x)
mattrm: 555 pull ups (x) 555 press ups (x)
Tom Green: Average three shoulder rehab sessions per week (x) Grit E1 (x) Limestone E1 (x) F6A in Font (x) 5km at 5min/km (/)
Jen Jones: Lead 4 of my DNFs (x) complete the beasty 5a fingerboard session (x) boulder a V5 at the climbing wall (x)
A new thread is posted each week on Sunday for anyone to jot down their previous week's activity. UKC fitclub is a rich community with posters sharing their goals, noting successes and failures and offering support to those struggling to maintain motivation. Anyone interested in starting is very welcome to join, but to get the most of UKC fit club you should aim to post each week, every week, however little or much you have done. By making such a regular public record of your activities and by restating your goals every week this new habit will hopefully improve your training habits and drive you towards achieving your goals whatever the level of your chosen activity.
For those wanting to find out more about training for climbing a number of physical training articles are linked here:
http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?t=274502
The following training article by Alex Barrows gives an excellent breakdown on training the four main "energy systems" specific to climbing:
http://alexbarrowsclimbing.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/training-for-sport-climbi...
Last week’s thread can be found here:
https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=671689
AlanLittle: Oh bad news on the illness front, were you back to 100% by the end of this week?
AJM: Selfishly hoping you’re not going to tell me the weather on the south coast was glorious and you DWS’ed all weekend (we chickened out of the drive after seeing a forecast).
Si dH: That’s like 3g of flapjack
Did you change your diet up this week?
mrchewy: A month in Font… jealous! Sounds like getting your shoulder sorted is a priority- impingement should be fairly addressable with rehab exercises?
guy127917: How did the mileage increase go?
mattrm: Taking weight off as required sounds like a good idea- I’ve seen people use elastic bands for this on a bar as well, though I’ve never tried it myself.
Dandan82: Cheating a little to squeeze out an extra rep is a form of progression, as long as you don’t let it form as a bad habit. On the easier graded work- are you adjusting technique/movement around the pain or is it genuinely less strain that is reducing the pain?
snoop6060: Is the wrist improving as time goes on?
Jen Jones: Welcome back! How was your training this week?
Ally Smith: On first read I assumed ‘20s style flapper party’ was something to do with skin condition…
hms: Yes I’m sure certain people here will certainly agree with you about the merits of waving a paintbrush above your head.
the sheep: nice work hitting your 150km target! Hows the 555 weight goal looking?
hokkyoksei: Believing you can finish is half the battle right!?
TheFasting: Moving fast on ridges takes a lot of practice- if you made it along 2km with some snow etc you must have been doing alright
planetmarshall: Someone actually doing jug carries… hero!
Tom Green: Progress is never linear! I tend to go to pieces after hitting a goal- it’s making me think quite hard about how big/small each goal should be and how you see them as steps towards each other rather than as isolated things.
biscuit: The motivational effect of shiny things is working well!
Just TinTin: Wow I hope people appreciated their food at the festival!