Glee time!

[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 a good time; 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.

To enhance this week's glee: Goats: still more hardcore than you. (You have to click to enlarge the photo, but it'll be kind of obvious which one.)

Comments

[wpadmirer]

I climbed with Kim and Fred twice this week, and they put me through strength training twice. I'm scheduled to climb again with them on Sunday.

Last Sunday we climbed and then Fred had a potluck dinner at his house where he has a slack line set up. I did not try out the slack line as I value my body and I'm too old to be springing off and landing on the hard ground. (grin)

But I watched several of the younger climbers try it out and it was very entertaining.

[rydra_wong]

*g* I have been known to trip over my feet walking across the floor at the climbing wall, so I suspect slacklining would not be a good idea for me either ...

What sort of strength training are you doing? I always want to pick other people's brains for ideas.

[wpadmirer]

I'm doing hang-board workouts. A series of pull-ups, dead hangs, bent-arm hangs, l-lifts, off-side pull-ups, on different holds - from jugs to three fingers. (It has a two finger hold, but I can't use that, my fingers won't hold me.)

Between each set of hang-board things I do sit-ups, push-ups, Mason Twists, bicycles (forward and backward), and crunchy frogs. It takes about 30 to 45 minutes to do the whole thing with a stretching cool down.

I'm always completely beat afterward, and my longest dead hang is 15 seconds! EGADS! I'm a wuss. (grin)

[wpadmirer]

Oh, a lot of the push-ups, sit-ups, etc. come from the P90X workouts. Both Fred and Kim do those.

[rydra_wong]

Hardcore! Your deadhang definitely beats mine. *g*

[wpadmirer]

Really? I feel like I suck at things like dead hangs. 15 seconds seems like FOREVER to me. I've been known to collapse on the mat flat on my back immediate afterward and refuse to rise. (grin)

[rydra_wong]

Maybe my fingerboard's meaner than yours, but I'm struggling to reach 6 or 7 seconds deadhang on some of the "easier" holds.

[wpadmirer]

Maybe so. I'm using the Metolis Simulator CNC Training Board at the gym. The thing is nice. I wish I could afford one and if I could afford one had somewhere to put it. (grin)

[rydra_wong]

Ooh, nice. I've got some Metolius rock rings, then I got one of these for my birthday a few months ago. Half the holds are too tough for me to even try to use, but at least I can look lovingly at them. *g*

[wpadmirer]

You are definitely using a harder board than I am. I'm very much a beginner!