Thursday, April 14, 2011

My New Training Partner

Here is my new training partner Mr. Campus Board. Me and him are gonna be good friends this summer :) Recently installed in the Co op I have begun to train on it and it's easy to see why they have a reputation for quick finger strength gains and potential for injuries. So I am gonna try to be careful and get the gains but avoid the latter.
I have five rungs to play with so I have been busy looking at peoples training regimes on youtube and vimeo and trying to copy them. So far I can do a 1,2,3,4,5 (with one hand staying on the bottom rung) and I can do a 1,3,4,5.  I can't quite manage a 1,3,5 yet, but hopefully with a bit of effort I will get it soon. Another popular trick is the double dyno, but it is rumored to be very dangerous in terms of injuries so I am gonna wait for a week or two before I try them.  I have to say it is fun trying to master these new exercises and the gains are highly quantifiable and coming very quickly indeed :) So thank you mister Wolfgang Gullich !! I am a crimpoholic so the open handed training on the campus board should give me something I have never had before ... open hand strength. Look at this picture and check out the weird thing my little finger does when I am three finger open handing.
Look at his lad !! I can't even fathom what possessing this kind of power must feel like, psyched to try and get some though ...

My foot injury is beginning to heal nicely and I am hoping to hit Glendalough for a relaxing mileage day on Sunday and then hopefully some sweet trad to start the summer with a bang a week or two after that. I don't want to rush it and have this injury hanging around all summer. Injuries are so frustrating !! At least I am back training though :)
 






4 comments:

  1. Check out the Moon campus routine. I did it there a few years back with Kev Power. We tried it twice a week but pulled it in to once a week. Even Kev said twice a week was too much. Despite the fact that Kev was way beyond me, we both were able to do the routine without injury. I couldn't do 1-4-7 so used to touch 6 to get to 7. Kev was doing 1-5-9 :-)

    http://www.moonclimbing.com/campussing-exercise-plan-c-334_345.html

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  2. Thanks for that link Stephen, I'll try and complete that by the end of the summer :)

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  3. http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=61589

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  4. Cheers Colm I saw this already,good article, gotta be careful !!

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