Friday glee thinks this is just really pretty

[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: ice climbing on a frozen waterfall at the Cascade de l'Oule in France.

Comments

Re: My glee

[astridv]

Interesting article. It feels so strange that between one-rep and two-rep, there should be such a difference. When I was 18 I could do pullups forever, it didn't even feel hard. (sigh)

But last summer I could, at one point, do three in a row... I vaguely recall. So I have hope that I'll get back there once the weather becomes friendlier and I can train more regularly again.

(But it'll be a long while before I'd get any urge to add weights. ;) Right now I'm rather looking forward to shedding all these extra layers of clothing.)

Re: My glee

[rydra_wong]

When I was 18 I could do pullups forever, it didn't even feel hard. (sigh)

Ha. When I was 18, I'd have laughed in the face of anyone who'd told me I'd ever be able to do a pull-up.

But last summer I could, at one point, do three in a row... I vaguely recall. So I have hope that I'll get back there once the weather becomes friendlier and I can train more regularly again.

From what I've read, I have the impression that (assuming you haven't been off for years and years), it tends to be faster to regain strength than to gain it in the first place.