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Damn, I just got called out. Climb2Core I see that you are new here, maybe one day your internet training will pay off, and you will be able to tell a joke and who its directed at.

Yes, I have been stagnate ever since I had kids, but luckily things are feeling easier now.










p.s. If I ever see you at the cliff don't bother asking me to stick clip, brush, or save any cats from a tall tree. You lost out chief.

I trained enough to pump layback my way up 5.9 trad cruxes when the option is available.

Yes. I did Andrew's route after he told me I couldn't do it. I would pay money for that.

i did like one thousand (1,000) pull-ups and everything seems really easy. like walking on water, but without all the pretense.

also less water.

my summer training regiment consisted solely of catching (or not) smallies in elkhorn creek. didn't do jack shit for my climbing, but it was a hellava lot more fun than than hanging around in my basement/a gym/someone else's basement/or worse yet a climbing gym.

Andrew; what he said may have been out of turn but...

I did a two month cycle that consisted of these things: bouldering, weighted bouldering, bouldering pyramids of 20/40/60/40/20 hand moves, weighted pull-ups, steep-angle lock-offs, 50 reps of dips once a week, 50+ reps of 80lb bench once a week, small amount of running, and lots of Muay-Thai kickboxing.

I set my sending date for the last week of October. The day I got out I was the strongest I have ever been in my life (and that was two weeks past the last workout I did).

I got my first 12 send.

Didn't have a bit of endurance though. I was getting pumped on tall 9s and 10s.

climb2core wrote:

Andrew wrote:I didn't train and I am climbing as strong as ever. Didn't project anything easier, I just got on routes and crushed. Eat that old man.

LMAO, first, I will assume you are talking to me. Ok, crusher. You have been fucking around at the same 13 grade for the last 3 years. You are stagnant, at best. 13b, that wasn't even pushing the grade a decade ago. Talk all the shit you want, try to put down other climbers. Just makes you come across as even more of a douche.

Ian

FAIL.

blakeleathers wrote:

climb2core wrote:

Andrew wrote:I didn't train and I am climbing as strong as ever. Didn't project anything easier, I just got on routes and crushed. Eat that old man.

LMAO, first, I will assume you are talking to me. Ok, crusher. You have been fucking around at the same 13 grade for the last 3 years. You are stagnant, at best. 13b, that wasn't even pushing the grade a decade ago. Talk all the shit you want, try to put down other climbers. Just makes you come across as even more of a douche.

Ian

FAIL.

don't judge Ian too harshly, he's a nice guy just not sure how to respond to Andrew's n on-obviously directed viciousness

Since Spring, I have augmented my general training with more core and some specific grip workouts. I have seen results in that I am more comfortable now on pinches and open-handed holds, which have long been a weakness of mine. Train for weaknesses and maintain your strengths, right? At first I thought I was not climbing very well, but I think in reality (when compared to past seasons) I have done OK. If I would spend more time climbing and less time scrubbing (or eating chocolate) then I think I would definitely have seen even better results. But I have to say, while the last year may not have seen my hardest climbing, it has been the most rewarding.