Didn't realize I'd fallen so far behind in the logging, but i did get in HB 9 & 10, and I've gotta say i really like that program. Do believe we added some strength with that upgrade.
On 3/13/18--would'a' been a Tues--got in Campus #1. That went really well. At this gym, they have Tension rungs, and i believe i like 'em better than the Metolius. I feel like they're...i really don't know...either slightly larger, or just somehow more positive. I tried looking up a comparison, but couldn't find any quant specs. At any rate, i was sticking sequences off the bat that i never did get last season; and the last Campus sesh was 10/5/17--so a bit over 5 months ago.
M' right biceps cooperated, and by the great mercy of GOD hasn't popped on me. The campusing hurt some, but didn't seem to make it worse. Interestingly, I had the harder time leading with my left hand this go 'round. That'd be the opposite of last season when i couldn't seem to stick the hard moves leading right. And that's especially weird, 'cuz it's my right arm that's tweaking on me, so i'd expect having it as the main pulling arm would be even worse; but that seem not to be the case.
Today was the first Limit Boulder sesh, and it was a pretty good start. Did climb yesterday doing lead routes with some friends, and that was probably poor planning; but i surely still had a fine day today. Started out with the warmup bouldering ladder, and ended up sending a V6-7, which was honestly a kind of victory all by itself. Then did come up with some pretty decent limity sequences on the serious wall. That was pretty hard on my arm, and i'm feeling it now. Do believe i'm going to just have to take a couple of weeks off of anything that requires a lock-off. Anyhow, really great workout, and encouraging.
Then i went for about an hour run on the river trail. Starting to get past that point of looking for incremental objectives, and being able to just run because there's more time in the day--which is really nice. No speed work yet, but the endurance is coming back.
And it was one beautiful day. I really, really wish my tribe were here with me.
Saturday, March 17, 2018
Monday, March 5, 2018
So: the Plan
So yesterday i picked up some little notebooks i can keep in my pocket for "diet journals". Now, diet journals (in my opinion) are useful in two major ways. Ostensibly they reveal what one is eating, such that it can be faced and potentially corrected. But they also tend to cause one not to eat the stuff one knows he shouldn't, as he'll subsequently have to write it in. I'd reckon that's the Observation Effect respecting dieting. Problem with that (if there is one) is that you don't get an accurate picture of what the maintenance (or gaining, as the case may be) diet looks like.
On the other hand, if it works, and you really are able to clean the garbage out of the diet just by focusing attention on it, then who cares if you're a li'l fuzzy about where you started?
As i understand it (and this seems pretty reasonable to me) a brutha's gotta cut about 300 calories/day outta the diet in order to lose weight. Now, i know that's not strictly speaking true. Sorta like if you continuously add 1 N net force to an object, you'll eventually approximate light speed, in an analogous fashion you'd lose weight by snipping out a net calorie or so consistently. But in a practical sense, cutting a net 300 ca/day would work.
My diet is generally pretty rock solid. That is to say, with very rare exceptions, i eat basically the same thing every day. And that's the cruxy bit to me: breakfast and lunch--even with some snacks--are extremely consistent, and i don't imagine i have a lot of room to tweak that without spending all day hungry and miserable.
So really supper, i believe, is where it's at. It's certainly where i fail when i fail; but it's also the most variable meal of my day, and the place where i could feasibly cut 300 cals without wanting to punch someone.
But first i need to calculate my typical foods-especially supper. I'll try to get some numbers up tomorrow. But today seemed like a pretty good day.
On the other hand, if it works, and you really are able to clean the garbage out of the diet just by focusing attention on it, then who cares if you're a li'l fuzzy about where you started?
As i understand it (and this seems pretty reasonable to me) a brutha's gotta cut about 300 calories/day outta the diet in order to lose weight. Now, i know that's not strictly speaking true. Sorta like if you continuously add 1 N net force to an object, you'll eventually approximate light speed, in an analogous fashion you'd lose weight by snipping out a net calorie or so consistently. But in a practical sense, cutting a net 300 ca/day would work.
My diet is generally pretty rock solid. That is to say, with very rare exceptions, i eat basically the same thing every day. And that's the cruxy bit to me: breakfast and lunch--even with some snacks--are extremely consistent, and i don't imagine i have a lot of room to tweak that without spending all day hungry and miserable.
So really supper, i believe, is where it's at. It's certainly where i fail when i fail; but it's also the most variable meal of my day, and the place where i could feasibly cut 300 cals without wanting to punch someone.
But first i need to calculate my typical foods-especially supper. I'll try to get some numbers up tomorrow. But today seemed like a pretty good day.
Saturday, March 3, 2018
Dusty, yet fluffy
Funny...2 1/2 years since my last post on here. Really gets away. In the interim i ruptured a biceps, rehabbed that, and moved 20hrs away. Haven't stopped logging workouts, but left off the side-musing seeing as no one at all cares.
But i feel a need to ruminate again on obliquities which--notwithstanding--failn't to connect.
I've been struck (and i've been struck with such many, many times heretofore) by how my workouts are not meshed nor periodized. That is to say, i find myself again stuck in a rut on most fronts, and my workouts make no sense and don't build on each other--or, for that matter, even complement each other.
For some reason, i've never managed to mesh weightlifting with any other sport in anything like a sensible fashion. I absolutely cannot say why that is. I think that i just loathe lifting light weights--seems pointless, even though it isn't. So when i try to maintain a power program in the irongym while i'm ramping up a triathlon or climbing program i end up damaged. That, or i end up wrecking my more important workouts. Total nonsense, but it's like a mental disorder from within which i can't see the problem. This time 'round i've very nearly ruptured my other distal biceps, and am trying to stave that off now. I'm sure it's very much like why i cannot get my diet dialed to lose weight.
Today i was hangboarding (and had a very fine workout in fact), and there was a 16ish year-old kid also working out. Bouncing between campusing, hanging from wooden pinches on a 270, and finally just endless projecting on bad holds on the 40deg overhung proj wall. Strong dude, for sure. But the guy weighs maybe a buck forty. So i'm considering the weight i'm having to take off for some of my hangs, and thinking Man! I'm stripping weight to get down to this kid's weight. And it once again occurred that if i could find a way to disencumber myself of 20-30 lbs, i'd go from being a decent climber to being a monstrous climber. I realize there's no useful way i could get to 140lbs; but i could go from the 203ish i'm at now to 180 without necessarily even losing any muscle.
But i can't figure out how.
I will explore that on here.
But i feel a need to ruminate again on obliquities which--notwithstanding--failn't to connect.
I've been struck (and i've been struck with such many, many times heretofore) by how my workouts are not meshed nor periodized. That is to say, i find myself again stuck in a rut on most fronts, and my workouts make no sense and don't build on each other--or, for that matter, even complement each other.
For some reason, i've never managed to mesh weightlifting with any other sport in anything like a sensible fashion. I absolutely cannot say why that is. I think that i just loathe lifting light weights--seems pointless, even though it isn't. So when i try to maintain a power program in the irongym while i'm ramping up a triathlon or climbing program i end up damaged. That, or i end up wrecking my more important workouts. Total nonsense, but it's like a mental disorder from within which i can't see the problem. This time 'round i've very nearly ruptured my other distal biceps, and am trying to stave that off now. I'm sure it's very much like why i cannot get my diet dialed to lose weight.
Today i was hangboarding (and had a very fine workout in fact), and there was a 16ish year-old kid also working out. Bouncing between campusing, hanging from wooden pinches on a 270, and finally just endless projecting on bad holds on the 40deg overhung proj wall. Strong dude, for sure. But the guy weighs maybe a buck forty. So i'm considering the weight i'm having to take off for some of my hangs, and thinking Man! I'm stripping weight to get down to this kid's weight. And it once again occurred that if i could find a way to disencumber myself of 20-30 lbs, i'd go from being a decent climber to being a monstrous climber. I realize there's no useful way i could get to 140lbs; but i could go from the 203ish i'm at now to 180 without necessarily even losing any muscle.
But i can't figure out how.
I will explore that on here.
Monday, September 7, 2015
Remediation
February 28 was my last post. Been over 6 months since i posted. Wow. That's kinda wild, 'cuz last i posted was around when i just had the Moon wall finished and was starting to put holds on. So i was still at reliance, and was looking at switching jobs. I guess it makes sense that there was a hiatus there. And i didn't stop climbing.
Anyhow, time for an update. And prolly a reboot.
Does look like it's been nearly 4 months since i've been in the irongym. That's a bit eye-opening, and sad. Got a Highland games coming up, and it looks like i'll be middle of the pack if they let me into the kids' division.
Respecting climbing, i could tentatively say i haven't lost any ground. In fact, i think the problem is i've felt too good climbing. Seems i inadvertently tacked on about 2 extra months to the end of the last season--mostly because it seemed to be going well. Seems i normally naturally call the season about on time 'cuz my hands just start feeling frayed and stale. Obviously didn't this time round. Maybe wasn't pushing it hard enough. Also, i think it took me several weeks to get in a groove on the PE thang. That felt very important once i realized what it was supposed to feel like, so i gave some extra time to it. Then i think i was just having fun bouldering. There're worse reasons, i'd reckon, to not start a new season on time.
Ah well: it's in the past.
Just started Season 4. Did two weeks of ARCing and just finished the first hangboard sesh a coupla days ago. Lost a li'l ground on the hangboard, but only a li'l. And i'd climbed pretty hard earlier in the day, and that didn't help a bit. And the weather's cisping up a bit, which should make hangboarding more fun.
Can't say i've gained any weight, but i'm certain i've lost some muscle as i haven't been lifting.
That'll hafta change. I've got the gear to start lifting again.
Think i'll go strip down the moonwall and start something new.
Anyhow, time for an update. And prolly a reboot.
Does look like it's been nearly 4 months since i've been in the irongym. That's a bit eye-opening, and sad. Got a Highland games coming up, and it looks like i'll be middle of the pack if they let me into the kids' division.
Respecting climbing, i could tentatively say i haven't lost any ground. In fact, i think the problem is i've felt too good climbing. Seems i inadvertently tacked on about 2 extra months to the end of the last season--mostly because it seemed to be going well. Seems i normally naturally call the season about on time 'cuz my hands just start feeling frayed and stale. Obviously didn't this time round. Maybe wasn't pushing it hard enough. Also, i think it took me several weeks to get in a groove on the PE thang. That felt very important once i realized what it was supposed to feel like, so i gave some extra time to it. Then i think i was just having fun bouldering. There're worse reasons, i'd reckon, to not start a new season on time.
Ah well: it's in the past.
Just started Season 4. Did two weeks of ARCing and just finished the first hangboard sesh a coupla days ago. Lost a li'l ground on the hangboard, but only a li'l. And i'd climbed pretty hard earlier in the day, and that didn't help a bit. And the weather's cisping up a bit, which should make hangboarding more fun.
Can't say i've gained any weight, but i'm certain i've lost some muscle as i haven't been lifting.
That'll hafta change. I've got the gear to start lifting again.
Think i'll go strip down the moonwall and start something new.
Saturday, February 28, 2015
Eighteen Days Out
Really not that far out from the last workouts. Kina stumbled a bit here. But it's not a real loss. No injuries
Just time
There're some really beautiful cold nights. Hands are still strong.
Endurance is certainly not what it needs to be. Gunna have to correct that. But i campused on the medium rungs; and that's a bigger uptick than i'd dreamed before.
So there's hope. See what tomorrow brings.
Just time
There're some really beautiful cold nights. Hands are still strong.
Endurance is certainly not what it needs to be. Gunna have to correct that. But i campused on the medium rungs; and that's a bigger uptick than i'd dreamed before.
So there's hope. See what tomorrow brings.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Plastique
Got the fresh Egrips holds in. There're some very hard problems to be had here.
Just ordered a coupla mo' MadPads for an LZ. That should make this more fun yet. Seriously looking forward to playing with this more.
Also just got in a few more campus rungs. Tomorrow could relinquish a new high point. :)
Friday, January 9, 2015
Waxing Clydesdale
As i mentioned in that other post, i've been growing in obesity over the last few weeks. Was 204lbs (fully-clothed) yesterday before the hangboard sesh. Horrifyingly undisciplined season here. Gunna hafta change.
Part of it, i know, is just the holiday deal: been abiding the presence of tinsful of sundry morphisms of sugared lard, upon which grazing is far too easy. Going to have to get the right view of that: Sugary crap is sugary crap no matter how neat (i.e. accessible) the presentation.
But also i've just been coming home from chaos at work and, having not had the time to actually eat all day, am cramming whatever i can find down the craw. Also undisciplined. Just difficult to keep eyes on the prize when i spend every hour of sunlit daytime trying not to cuss. But that (GOD willing) could change soon. And i'd very much like to not have another stone of weight to shed in order to start getting it back together.
On the upside, the weather seems to be warming a smidge, which'll surely make easier the decision between going for a run/workout and playing another round of tower defense wrapped in my fleeced blankey. With a beer and two lbs of cookies.
And now that i've tanned the morning's Eggs Benedictine, i'm off to install the new campus rungs :)) That should lend some psychvoltage.
Part of it, i know, is just the holiday deal: been abiding the presence of tinsful of sundry morphisms of sugared lard, upon which grazing is far too easy. Going to have to get the right view of that: Sugary crap is sugary crap no matter how neat (i.e. accessible) the presentation.
But also i've just been coming home from chaos at work and, having not had the time to actually eat all day, am cramming whatever i can find down the craw. Also undisciplined. Just difficult to keep eyes on the prize when i spend every hour of sunlit daytime trying not to cuss. But that (GOD willing) could change soon. And i'd very much like to not have another stone of weight to shed in order to start getting it back together.
On the upside, the weather seems to be warming a smidge, which'll surely make easier the decision between going for a run/workout and playing another round of tower defense wrapped in my fleeced blankey. With a beer and two lbs of cookies.
And now that i've tanned the morning's Eggs Benedictine, i'm off to install the new campus rungs :)) That should lend some psychvoltage.
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