Friday glee is underground

[rydra_wong]

The Friday post of glee is where you get to tell us about your climbing-related happiness this week.

It can be a new achievement or adventure, or just that you climbed and had fun; it can be that your favourite climbing wall is expanding or that you bought new rock shoes or that you found a cool ice-climbing vid on YouTube. No glee is too small -- or too big. Members are encouraged to cheer each other on and share the squee.

N.B. Please feel free to post your glee on any day of the week; the Friday glee is just to get the ball rolling.

To enhance this week's glee: Ned Feehally and his cellar. The time-honoured Sheffield winter activities: training in a cellar while listening to techno.

Comments

[rydra_wong]

Basically, instead of hanging from a fingerboard, you get (or make) a hold-y type thing, attach weights to it, then pick it up off the floor (with your arm down by your side).

So you don't have to put up a fingerboard in your house, you can build up the weight from a very low level (which is hard to do with a fingerboard without a pulley system), and some people report that it's easier on their shoulders.

https://climbingtogetherandotherfunadventures.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/no-hangs/
https://www.reddit.com/r/climbharder/comments/4ojsfx/no_hang_apparatus/

Trains isometric strength, which is what you need for climbing. And you wouldn't have to use your thumb!

[wpadmirer]

Thank you! I'm going to show this to Pat. Maybe he can build something like this for me!