I was thinking that in order to really get and stay in shape for training you'd need to do some sort of climbing. If you can't get out then building your self a small wall would probobly be the best option.

But I'd like to address another issue. You say you don't have the time to drive an hour to go climbing. How many nights a week do you go to school? How many hours of home work do you have to do? I understand that if you're working and going to school at the same time you don't have a ton of time, but I bet you have more than you think. But you have to make climbing a priority.

find a different sport. honestly. you're gonna bore the shit out of yourself trying to contrive ways to stay in shape for climbing. there's more to life. you got to get out there and live it. be somebody.

woah, lost myself there. but if you find another sport that you like/love doing, you'll stay in shape reasonably well and will probably enjoy yourself a lot more. plus, crosstraining generally reduces the plateau effect. who knows, if you get back to climbing, after a month of the crappy readjustment period you might start crushing because you built a foundation of fitness.

However many hours you work in a day: run that many miles 3 times a week.
However old you are: do that many push-ups everytime you enter your dorm room.
However many credits you're taking: do that many pull-ups everytime you walk under a doorway.
However many friends you have on Facebook (or some other social network): do that many ab excercises daily.

Don't forget yoga

Although I know you meant well, blurricus, I can't think of a more random way to plan a fitness program. Using such number correlations just makes no sense to develop a plan that does anything specific.



Also, just fyi to all, yoga is, believe it or not, totally unnecessary to be able to climb well. It may help one out in certain ways, but climbers have been crushing for years long before yoga became a big fad.

Sorry, dude, I am not picking on you, I am just writing facts wrt your comment. Although I agree that general fitness can't hurt his prospects for climbing better later on, one has to formulate it properly in each individual case.

F*ck running. The only thing more boring then going for a run or "jog" is going for a damn walk. Unless it's in the mountains and more or less alone.
Although I agree completely with GG up there, that climbing has to become a priority (and I mean over going out and drinking, over wasting time on the net, over spending time with your lady friend- Your callender should be planned around your climbing, not the other way around.).
Hell you could even cut down on spending and lose some work hours.
If you really can't get out, then perhaps light use of a fingerboard (extremely light at first. Jumping straight at it would be begging for tendon issues) could be in order.
And while pull-ups aren't a godsend for training for climbing, throwing those into your daily workout, along with frenchies and attempted levers, couldn't hurt.

I personally far prefer rowing, swimming, or biking to running. In that order. I find that if you hold the rowing bar with and open hand grip you can actually get a fair forearm pump in 15ks...

It's a man thing. I know EXACTLY down to the fucking T what that plan means and so does every other guy in the world.

The "yoga became a big fad" is also a little strange of a thing to say about a form of life that is over 3000 years old

Every guy on earth who is a legitimate strength coach and trains actual athletes for a living (and the research that makes up the foundation of what they base their work on) would not agree with you and blurricus at all. How do I know this? Because what I know I learned from them.

If you worked in the fitness and wellness field as a professional for a while, you would see this is exactly the case. And eventually it will fade in popularity and be replaced by something else everyone wants to do. This is not to say it won't continue in the areas of the world where it has its roots and is pursued for other reasons than "mind body fitness" alone.

And eventually it will fade in popularity and be replaced by something else everyone wants to do. This is not to say it won't continue in the areas of the world where it has its roots and is pursued for other reasons than "mind body fitness" alone.

Huh? So I have to put my yoga mat with my mini trampoline and thong leotard from my aerobics days?

Also, one time, Schwinn paid me to ride their bikes at a trade show for 3-4 hours a day during an neverending cycling class.... Is that easiest money ever or hardest money ever???)

Make it 10 hours at heavy resistance with drunk girls grabbing your ass and you've got my job.

Make it 10 hours at heavy resistance with drunk girls grabbing your ass and you've got my job.

Wait, what is it you do? Do you work at a bar where the bottles are 10 liters instead of 1 or 1.75?

yeah I wanted to do that last summer and me and my friend had the supplies to do it but at the moment I live at the dorms at my college so I really can't build anything around here, probably could have last year but this year this place is more strict than a prison.