Byronic's Climbing Training Log - Keen and Lean

[Byronic]

No worries, it's definately worth the visit

I think I've done too much recently, my left elbow feels much like the onset of tendonitis, a common but devastating injury amongst serious climbers, I've taken a full rest day, eaten a lot of good quality carbs and had a load of protein from various sources, hopefully it's a niggle rather than the onset, but it feels quite serious :S

on a happier note here's one of the things I did whilst in the lake district, this is my alternative to the gym
disclaimer: I say a naughty word at the end of it, apologies.

[Asauka]

Loving the log so far, very impressed by the climbing. I never got too into it because I wasn't fit enough to do it, got a great climbing wall in my town so I might have to give it a try now I'm a lot fitter.

Will be following this with great interest!

[Byronic]

Bud, by the looks of your profile pic you probably couldn't have a better starting point, the guy in the vest who walks across the camera in a white vest at the start of the vid is pretty much a carbon copy of your build, and he's very very strong, also by the looks of your journal you're pretty good at pull ups, so you've pretty much got the best starting base you could expect for a beginner, everything except finger strength, which is very hard to get unless you climb.

I hadn't noticed your log on the forums before, nice to see another who's not a 6ftX strength beast taking their training seriously your squats especially seem to be coming on pretty well.



Quick log for yesterday:

My elbow felt much improved after a day of 100%rest on thursday, very boring day though :P

Into early evening friday I went a bit stir crazy, so warmed up thoroughly and did some weights, also having made sur eto eat a fair bit of recovery food wed eve/thur day I was shocked to weigh myself and see the scaled hit 10st7 yesterday morning, prob just the increased carbs of yesterday sticking to my guts, but not something I like to see nonetheless.


My friend lent me 4x2.5kg plates, so my dumbbells now weigh 16.4kg each, sets were done with that and a curling bar(small room is the only reason I've got this rather than anything else) weighing at about 30kg

warm up:

press ups (banned from pull ups for the time being, elbow ) a few stretches

Dumbbells:
10x10 bench press (I will prob change this to lower sets higher reps to minimise bulking)

Bar:
5 sets of 10 overhead press, 10 backhanded curls(antagonist work), 10 squats, 20 tip-toe raises, 10 Bent over rows.

Bit more unstructured stuff, was just pleased to be exercising, and my elbow felt the best it's felt since coming back from the trip as it was warmed up.
100crunches, followed by a healthy mix of leg raise exercises mixing in press up bars.



Today(so far)
Major healthy eatage is going to go down due to weight increase, also went out for an indian with the family yesterday as my sister's going off to uni on sunday :P

Managed 64 press ups, new PR, this is without rest, think if I rested I could've hit 75, still got to do my 100 by christmas

for a little incentive here's a reminder of what I've got left to do before christmas:

Bench100k on 85k
100 Press Ups (no rest) on 64
270lb Lat Pulldown on 240lb (not going to the gym at the moment)
BW+5kgx5 Pull Ups on 5x25kg, this and the lat pulldown may have to be missed if my elbow doesn't recover, we'll see.

Ironically I think the exercise which doesn't involve any added weight is going to be the hardest

[Asauka]

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Bud, by the looks of your profile pic you probably couldn't have a better starting point, the guy in the vest who walks across the camera in a white vest at the start of the vid is pretty much a carbon copy of your build, and he's very very strong, also by the looks of your journal you're pretty good at pull ups, so you've pretty much got the best starting base you could expect for a beginner, everything except finger strength, which is very hard to get unless you climb.

I hadn't noticed your log on the forums before, nice to see another who's not a 6ftX strength beast taking their training seriously your squats especially seem to be coming on pretty well.

Finger strength is definately something I noticed from the times I went, I went in the winter too and the climbing wall made your fingers numb before you got halfway up so it was exceptionally challenging!

Squats WERE coming along decently but unfortunately my body struck a blow on me and I'm unable to squat for a while, thank you though.

Hope the elbow gets better before christmas, I'm sure you'll hit most if not all those goals you have left. What have you been doing to help it recover exactly?

[Byronic]

Sorry for the slow response, I've been getting some work in birmingham for a couple of weeks to stop myself from being horrifically poor

Cold holds are horrible, sending loads of blood through your hand and warm ockets are all you can really do for them, I used to arrive, do soe pull ups and press ups, then hold some green tea from my thermos cupped in my hands every so often for about half an hour last winter before beginning, seemed to do the trick.


My elbow improved a bit while I was away, I banned myself from fast 1armers, and have paid ore attention to properly warming up, unfortunately at the end of the 2 weeks I went to wales and screwed y little finger up quite severely, y own fault for clibing when tired post multiple days at work I think


Did a fair bit of weights yesterday, and today I went over to 'the cage' at my mates, didn;t have a bad session, especially considering I've only been doing bodyweight exercises for 2 weeks, thank god for pullups


bench
5xbar
5x60k
3x65
2x70
1x80
1x85
1x90 (PB)
6x65 (was going for max reps here, haaarrd ^_^)
5xbar

squats

5xbar
5x40
3x50
2x60
1x70
1x80
1x85(PB)

tried overhead raises, very hard!

5xbar
3x40
1x50

My god, hard!

Not a bad session all in all.

also, very importantly

I CAN RUN AGAIN!

2 days ago I ran for the first tie in 8months, not that I was ever hugely into my running, but after 2months on crutches, and 6 not being able to run after buses, or move anywhere at speed it was great! I think all of the walking around with a heavy rucksack I've been doing over the past month has helped quite a bit, and I didn't feel stiff the next day.

I'm going to take things easy with it, not sure if I'll be putting running into my routine as a regular occurrence, we'll see.


so I've got 10kmore to reach 1 more of my goals which'd take me down to three remaining, the press ups are still going to be very hard!

I'm taking my diet to a new level of healthyness currently, trying to do anything I can to speed the repair of my finger and elbow, lots of protein from difference sources (mmmm duck eggs), loads of veggies, and I'm making a real effort to get in the quality fats and oils.

Now I'm home for a bit I'll be back to updating more regularly, scouts honour!

[Asauka]

Good to hear you didn't dissapear, like the benches (personally a bit jealous but I'll get there ).

With your elbow, do you do your pull-ups quite quickly and almost explosively or do you even notice them at all while doing pull-ups and that? If so try toning down the speed of the reps and see if that helps reduce the pain, I found it helped with my squat pains and while may be completely unrelated it might be worth trying still.

Look forward to more updates!

P.S. Did your "m" key stop working by any chance?