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Geeyome
May 20, 2010, 1:05 AM
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I am wondering how often I should be climbing. My sense of logic and what I have learned from the human body tells me that I should be climbing as often as possible, for my body to accomodate to the strain of the training and for the required muscles and tendons to strenghten. Some people told me to never climb on succesfull days. I've always been a pretty athletic person and I'm wondering if sessions of 1-2hour for 3 days in a row can be detrimental.. I haven't had any problems so far apart from minor elbow strain. Thanks!
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robinsmv
May 20, 2010, 1:08 AM
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those people were right. you should never be climbing on successful days. only climb on days when you are a total failure. this teaches you to pull yourself up far faster.
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altelis
May 20, 2010, 1:25 AM
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how often is too often.......let me answer that with this:
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tehbillzor
May 20, 2010, 1:57 AM
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There was a period of about 2 months were i was climbing 3 to 5 hours 6 days a week, and I felt fresh and strong every day. I did this after several months of building up strength in my tendons and building some callouses of course.
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Dip
May 20, 2010, 2:34 AM
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that is effing hilarious!
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guangzhou
May 20, 2010, 5:47 AM
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Really depends on you and your body. I get two days a week on the rock consistently here. I climb more during the school breaks. As much as 5 days in a week. Last year, I spent 147 days on the rock. Not my best year ever, but not my worse either.
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clews
May 20, 2010, 6:19 PM
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my best advice is to just go and climb and listen to your body. When you start most of the pains associated with climbing are foreign and you don't know what they mean... but you quickly figure it out. Everyone has a different threshold with how often they climb. It has a lot to do with what they are doing. If i'm bouldering maybe i can go 3 hard days in a row before i need a break. If i'm sport climbing I can go 4 or 5 days. If it's multipitch gear climbing then I can climb as much as I want because it's not hard climbing that i'm doing and i'm not wearing myself out. If I wake up in the morning and my body hurts I'll probably take the day off. If you ever feel pain in the tendons in your fingers stop immediately and don't climb until the pain goes away... Chances are you'll be like the rest of us though and learn the hard way a couple times before you figure it out.
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jomagam
May 20, 2010, 6:25 PM
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A wise man once said: climbing breaks you down, rest builds you up. The answer mostly depends on your age and how hard you break your body down when you climb.
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shockabuku
May 20, 2010, 6:58 PM
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Minor elbow strain can turn into chronic elbow pain so quickly and smoothly that you won't even notice it. You'll just notice the chronic elbow pain from tendonitis. If your elbows hurt, you're most likely training too intensely too often. If you want to climb every day, go with low intensity work and stay away from hangboards and campus boards and really hard bouldering. You can climb for successive days but observe your performance and how you feel to figure out when you aren't having fun or being effective any more and then take a rest day (or better yet, two).
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clc
May 20, 2010, 8:40 PM
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How often do we see goofy question? Too often. Depends on who you ask.
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jt512
May 20, 2010, 8:53 PM
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Geeyome wrote: Some people told me to never climb on succesfull days. Sounds like my strategy. Jay
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Geeyome
May 20, 2010, 10:47 PM
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clc wrote: How often do we see goofy question? Too often. Depends on who you ask. There's no goofy questions, only goofy answers.. This is the beginners forum, if you are impatient and tired of seeing goofy topics being brought up then please by all means steer clear from it. Thank you!
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swoopee
May 22, 2010, 2:49 PM
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altelis wrote: how often is too often.......let me answer that with this: [image]http://images.paraorkut.com/img/pics/images/g/god_kills_a_kitten-1605.jpg[/image] If that was true, I would have killed every cat on the planet by now.
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mr.tastycakes
May 23, 2010, 2:47 PM
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clews wrote: my best advice is to just go and climb and listen to your body. When you start most of the pains associated with climbing are foreign and you don't know what they mean... but you quickly figure it out. Everyone has a different threshold with how often they climb. It has a lot to do with what they are doing. If i'm bouldering maybe i can go 3 hard days in a row before i need a break. If i'm sport climbing I can go 4 or 5 days. If it's multipitch gear climbing then I can climb as much as I want because it's not hard climbing that i'm doing and i'm not wearing myself out. If I wake up in the morning and my body hurts I'll probably take the day off. If you ever feel pain in the tendons in your fingers stop immediately and don't climb until the pain goes away... Chances are you'll be like the rest of us though and learn the hard way a couple times before you figure it out. This post is good, except I'd add that a beginner will get injured very quickly with Clews' schedule. My tendons ache at the thought of 3 straight days of hard bouldering. IMHO a good rule of thumb for beginners is no hard climbing 2 days in a row. If you must climb several days in a row (i.e. climbing trip) try to alternate hard and moderate days. Take it easy on those fingers.
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whipper
May 23, 2010, 3:33 PM
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jt512 wrote: Geeyome wrote: Some people told me to never climb on succesfull days. Sounds like my strategy. Jay Holly shit.... I think JT made a joke at his own expense....
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