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+ (/)
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 (/) complete the beasty 5a fingerboard session (/) 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=672414&v=1
TheFasting: Do you get out during the week in the evening or during the day (presuming the nights will draw in pretty fast soon?)
Tom Green: Well done on the MTG! I think as you say, to balance your goals, a seasonal approach may work well. I’m sure putting time into pushing your trad grade will help winter/alpine climbing? (Just don’t get into the habit of spending 45 minutes on a single pitch of grit)
Tyler: Congrats on the 7c tick! Getting your BUK money’s worth his week
mattrm: 3 weeks to do 400 push ups- 19 a day, no problem
mrchewy: Did you think of a goal for the next 3 weeks?
guy127917: Good work with nutrition changes.
AlanLittle: Sounds like you are really aware of the fatigue signals from your body- really good stuff.
Si dH: Great stuff, very sensible move to hold something back on the fingerboard session!
AJM: Enjoy Kalymnos, let us know how you get on next week.
biscuit: Your circuitboard challenge sounds like a pretty good workout- 80 moves (if i understood correctly) is long!
hms: I hope you like the new yoga class.
Dandan82: What eccentric exercises are you using? “re align the muscle/tendon fibres” possible hooey- but if it seems to work then it doesn’t matter. Si’s comments seemed pretty spot on.
JenJones: Nice to see the 555 goal have pushed you a bit. The leading goals you mentioned are not specific enough though- how will you know when you have completed ‘mileage’
Ally Smith: Congrats on the FA. Do you get to name it?
hokkyousei: How did the marathon go?
the sheep: How are you tumble turns?
snoop: Sorry to hear the wrist didn’t play ball. Have you had a doctor or similar look at it?
Bobling: I assume you meant 2018 in your goals rather than 2017?
Just Tintin: We have monkey bars at the gym but we have to call it a ‘functional strength cage’ now