Fezzek
First Post
25 years ago, I spent a year unknowingly powerlifting. My coach was a powerlifting coach, and I just did what I was told
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I rock climbed 15 hours a week for about 5 years and ended up with a pretty solid grip strength.
Marriage & kids, no exercise for 20 years...
I bought the Captains of Crush and could do the Guide/Sport/Trained/1/1.5 without any training. Within 4 weeks I was doing sets of 4-6 #2 and #2.5 for 1 rep.
After about 4 months of consistent training, I am doing sets with the 2/2.5 of 8-10 reps, and I managed the level 3 for 1 rep after a 20 minute warm up on my RHS. LHS is still a few mm short of completing it. I've just ordered the 3.5 and 4 so I can start to build towards repeated sets on the level 3.
I have the hub, pinch block, finger boarfds and rolling grip thing. Apart from trying them out, I haven't really used them at all yet. I think I have reasonably good strength/endurance on the RGT, but the hub/pinch block is very, very weak (about 55lb reps ).
I'm struggling to see how I can improve my weak areas so I can get back to rock climbing. Adding any more into the grip strength training fatigues me for days at a time (closer to a week than a day). But the CoC I can do every other day with no problems whatsoever.
Thoughts?
Martin
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I rock climbed 15 hours a week for about 5 years and ended up with a pretty solid grip strength.
Marriage & kids, no exercise for 20 years...
I bought the Captains of Crush and could do the Guide/Sport/Trained/1/1.5 without any training. Within 4 weeks I was doing sets of 4-6 #2 and #2.5 for 1 rep.
After about 4 months of consistent training, I am doing sets with the 2/2.5 of 8-10 reps, and I managed the level 3 for 1 rep after a 20 minute warm up on my RHS. LHS is still a few mm short of completing it. I've just ordered the 3.5 and 4 so I can start to build towards repeated sets on the level 3.
I have the hub, pinch block, finger boarfds and rolling grip thing. Apart from trying them out, I haven't really used them at all yet. I think I have reasonably good strength/endurance on the RGT, but the hub/pinch block is very, very weak (about 55lb reps ).
I'm struggling to see how I can improve my weak areas so I can get back to rock climbing. Adding any more into the grip strength training fatigues me for days at a time (closer to a week than a day). But the CoC I can do every other day with no problems whatsoever.
Thoughts?
Martin