while much of the training stuff is incorporated in the front part of my blog. this will be for the very dry, techniques and tips that i have picked up along the way. a bit more like a notebook or noticeboard than a blog or coherent blog entry.
25/12/2008
I have just bought Conditioning for climbing and its a very, very good read. I’ve developed my training programme through what Horst suggests and while I’m only in the first week of using the training programme, it seems to work.
Currently, the Foundry has some brilliant problems on the Wave. There are some that even I can do! Anyway, I’m not sure that this is particularly relevant to the training page, but it is climbing related.
6/08/2008
Cardio is also fairly important for climbing, and MTB. Therefore, I knew I had to do more of it. So when RG cam across BMF (British Military Fitness) I wanted to have a go. It hurt. It was good and I know that I’m going to have a really good session each time that I go there. I would recommend it for endurance and stamina training. Exercises incorporate both cardio (lots and lots and lots of running) with timed exercises and core. So the typical class includes crunchies, bastards, burpies, pushups and loads of other stuff, on top of fifth gear.
1/08/2008
The stomach:
Core is massively important for bouldering and climbing, as most people know. Unfortunately, I hate core exercises. I’ve found that recently my core is getting required more and more because the boulder problems that I’m attempting and the fact that I’ve moved on the the big boys wall (the overhanging wall at the Foundry). So, core is getting used.
The best thing I’ve found for improving it is to do lots of stuff on the big boys wall, as climbing is the ultimate training for climbing. Alternatively the use of swiss balls to do planks and jack knifes.
I’ve been recommended this:
Anyway, perhaps I should listen to my own advice and actually do some of these exercises!
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Just checked this book out and its awsome:
Also check out his web page for some more interesting ideas on training.
