Training with added weight...
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I personally think training for the Red is all about training on finger buckets or reasonable slopers, so slogging on a treadwall is as good as it gets. I am no master, but have taken my lessons from my betters, including the champion of the treadwall, Bill Ramsey.
Everything I have posted is of course thrown into immediate disrepute by any young boulderer who does nothing but boulder V hard at the gym 5 days a week and then comes to the cliff and climbs 5.13 + .
I do think that a sensible approach to training works for old guys who suck and can't get to the cliff 4 days a week. Again, 42-43 year old Jeff Ashley who is hiking 5.13s in this heat and does nothing other than climb outside doesn't help my arguement.
Everything I have posted is of course thrown into immediate disrepute by any young boulderer who does nothing but boulder V hard at the gym 5 days a week and then comes to the cliff and climbs 5.13 + .
I do think that a sensible approach to training works for old guys who suck and can't get to the cliff 4 days a week. Again, 42-43 year old Jeff Ashley who is hiking 5.13s in this heat and does nothing other than climb outside doesn't help my arguement.
"It really is all good ! My thinking only occasionally calls it differently..."
Normie
Normie
From an old college comic strip:pigsteak wrote:so cigarettes make you look older but crank harder...sounds good to me...what brand, marlboro man?
Vegetables are good for you. Leaves are vegetables. Tobacco is a leaf. Tobacco is good for you! (In the margin: "A clean lung is the devil's whiffle bat")
Bacon is meat candy.
I achieve this goal by gaining 10 pounds every summer and winter while I train in the gym. That way, when I get outside in the Spring and Fall at my skinny weight, everything seems easier! Saves me the cost of a weight belt and people razzzing me about how I train. 8)
Hauling a big ego up a route adds at least a full grade.