When to say When?

[t bone]

Climb on young man! I like to climb or workout daily. Climbed through alot of injuries the last 25 yrs.

[squeezindlemmon]

Training and climbing provide stimulus for, but no actual, muscular growth. Recomposition and strengthening occur only during sleep and on rest days. Your muscles become stronger and your nervous system adapts to new moves and demands during rest periods not during exercise. Although climbing and training are the stimulus for growth, they are actually CATABOLIC, meaning they break down your body. Therefore, the quality and quantity of your recovery time is as important as your traininng and climbing time.

But J-Rock also likes to say, "keep doing it while you still can!"....

[Meadows]

Meadows tried to kill me at Lexington Athletic club Saturday with a two hour workout, followed by two great hours pulling plastic.
Wes

What???!! It was your idea to do all that! Man, I am never doing that again before a climb day.

[moonbeam]

Cut the dose on the Red Bull and see how that goes...

[captain static]

Horst recommends a cycle of 10 weeks climbing withan 11th week of no climbing to allow the body a break. He also recommends a longer break once a year. I pretty much try to follow his training cycles and it hasn't let me down.

[krazykid]

I wish I had the luxury of saying when! Maybe after I graduate I'll have to take a break and do the climbing bum thing...

[J-Rock]

Dude, I'm in my 30's and I can still out dyno all the young punks and teenagers in the gym. Whatever you do.... never grow up. I don't climb as often as I did several years ago. I used to climb 5,6, or 7 days a week and I was in the best climbing shape of my life. Now I only climb 3 or 4 days a week and I'm in much worse climbing shape.