Oh hell yeah. It was months and months before I could do one; before that, my "sit start" was just a "sit". *g*
But once you start doing them, they help build strength.
And when my body starts going "No! We can't go any further! We're a whole foot off the ground and if we go higher we might fall!", I know it's probably time to wrap up and head home.
When I started climbing, it was the other way round; I had to promise myself at the start of a session that if all I did was traverse to and fro across the wall a foot off the ground, that was enough. Then my brain would get into it and I'd find myself lured up the wall.
Nowadays, I know it's time to go home when I'm sloppy drunk with endorphins and my body is going "Let's try slapping wildly at the next hold on that totally impossible problem! We can flyyyyy!"
Well, okay, I usually stay a bit longer, as it can sometimes be useful to try slapping wildly at the next hold on the impossible problem, but there's a point after that when I recognize that my co-ordination and judgment have vanished completely and it's time to go home before I hurt myself. *g*
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Oh hell yeah. It was months and months before I could do one; before that, my "sit start" was just a "sit". *g*
But once you start doing them, they help build strength.
And when my body starts going "No! We can't go any further! We're a whole foot off the ground and if we go higher we might fall!", I know it's probably time to wrap up and head home.
When I started climbing, it was the other way round; I had to promise myself at the start of a session that if all I did was traverse to and fro across the wall a foot off the ground, that was enough. Then my brain would get into it and I'd find myself lured up the wall.
Nowadays, I know it's time to go home when I'm sloppy drunk with endorphins and my body is going "Let's try slapping wildly at the next hold on that totally impossible problem! We can flyyyyy!"
Well, okay, I usually stay a bit longer, as it can sometimes be useful to try slapping wildly at the next hold on the impossible problem, but there's a point after that when I recognize that my co-ordination and judgment have vanished completely and it's time to go home before I hurt myself. *g*