Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Beginning, part deux

Well its been well over a year since I started this "blag" and I've only posted on it twice. For some reason I have the urge to start documenting my climbing again, and this will likely be the medium used. Anyway, classes started again today here in Boston. Its always a bit scary the first few days of the semester trying to figure out what classes are going to be difficult, what profs are good, bad, and how to approach each class. Fortunately, my schedule looks like it will provide me with a lot of time to climb and train, which is amazing because the fall is the best time for rock scramblin' in New England. I have fridays off, which means many trips up to Rumney with Brian or Keller, and weekends at Pawtuckaway with Jeremy.
I just ended a two week break from rock climbing. I think my short hiatus served me well, because most of my fingers feel fine when I clench my fists now, with the exception of my ring finger on my left hand, which still hurts a little. Before I took my break I was climbing the strongest I ever had, and I'm excited to try to get back to that level and surpass it. I've only got 5 months until Hueco, so I need to start training right away - tonight actually. My plan is basically to do as many moves as possible a night, and to not really project too much. I also plan on doing lots of core work - leg lifts, decline bench weighted crunches, russian twists, and maybe planks. For some reason training core has always seemed to provide me with the biggest leaps in my climbing ability, so I hope it can help again this time. I'm also going to try doing campus workouts, including deadhangs, 1-3-5's, 1-4-7's, double dyno 1-3-2's and 1-4-2's, left and right bumps from 1-2-3-4-5-6. I want to start off on the big rungs with 5 fingers, and work down on rung size, then start working big rungs again, dropping a finger. I think I'll start doing typewriters on the rings at the gym and one arm pullups / assisted 1 arm pullups (not sure doing sets of 2 one arms will really help me).
I'll have to work out a schedule for all of this, and maybe try to get Jeremy on board to train with me.
I don't think anyone reads this, but if you are, let me know if you have any recommendations on exercises. I'm particularly weak on shouldery moves, but don't know any really good exercises.

Well, I'm off to the gym for a session. Peace.

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