Yeeeeah, Karen wuntzed to go climb moderates and had never been to Bubba Shitty. I sent a proj on Saturday, so she knew she could convince me to go there on Sunday.

Have never had my balls cupped so hard. That Russian guy who knew you was like, "are you camhead? why are you climbing here!"

and then when I offered some advice about lowering off of routes, he was telling his crew "listen to him, he's the closest thing to a pro climber that you'll see at Bubba City!"

Oh dear.

For prosperity.

We have really nice wood paneling from the 1960 era in our house. Real wood, not that printed stuff. We're not painting it, but will be pulling it all down. Kind of a pity, but it is very dated.

Well, history and geography aren't the same thing.

Curt

The wood paneling I have is super bad.

I mean, it is real wood, not fake printed stuff. But it is old, scuffed, water-stained in spots, and ugly. Pulling it out would be a major undertaking, not the one I'm wiling to start right now.

It is starting to look really nice, in sections where we got the second coat of primer already. But it is a lot of work.

So I've been getting moar serious about this hangboarding thing. Adding/subtracting weight, etc. While I'm still not feeling so trashed after a workout that I need 72 hours of rest, I'm definitely getting a better workout now.

I think I mentioned that I've just been doing the beginner workout out of the Manderson book, at least until my fingers didn't feel so tweaky anymore. I was thinking of moving on to the intermediate workout later this week though now that I'm getting stuff sorted out. There's no benefit to sticking to the beginner workout instead of moving on to the intermediate workout, is there?

Hopping on MoonButt with Trashy tomorrow. Hopefully hilarity will ensue just a bit!

you could ensure that it ensues if you just cutz his rope halfway up.

I regret to inform y'all that we both survived. Great day out, although Trashy was probably regretting offering to jug the hole thing. My everything hurtz today, though.

Wait, where's the spray? I showed up with full raingear today! I needz 2 no! How did it go? Tell me now!

GO

Wait, where's the spray? I showed up with full raingear today! I needz 2 no! How did it go? Tell me now!

GO

If you looked on facespace you'd see he didn't even do it clean. Weak sauce!

Trashy and I were just having lunch here in noiZ, and this older climber from Jtree struck up a conversation with us.

I asked him if he knew Jack, and he was like, "Yeah! He used to have a mouth on him– he made women cry and guys want to punch him!"

'Used' to?

Trashy and I were just having lunch here in noiZ, and this older climber from Jtree struck up a conversation with us.

I asked him if he knew Jack, and he was like, "Yeah! He used to have a mouth on him– he made women cry and guys want to punch him!"

Clearly the incorrect verb tense.

Interested in this too- I'm assuming I'll just do beginner for the whole period, but what if it feels too easy? I guess I'd take off assisted weight, not sure if my goal should be increased time and reps or to get down to body weight- but what if I can't ever get down to body weight?

Nathan was actually working on finishing up the kitchen stuff last night. He can't quite remember where he left off though... Unfortunately I think taking down the wood panelling and painting the living room is low on the list.

If you looked on facespace you'd see he didn't even do it clean. Weak sauce!

umm, the mere fact that his post didn't mention zending it tells me he didn't do it clean.

don't need facespace for that.

Getting to body weight isn't really the main goal, unless you plan to one-arm jump-campus everything? If you go from hanging with 60lb subtraction at the start, and get to 30lb subtraction at the end, that's pretty darn awesome. In the next cycle you would maybe start at -50, and end at -20, and so on. Sure, eventually you'd get to body weight and even more, but it might take multiple cycles.

The goal is to get better at holds that you can't hang onto, with body weight. I usually have one hold that I am starting at body weight or slightly more, and will be adding a lot of weight by the end (this is a warm-up hold) 3-4 holds that I am starting at 10-15 lb subtraction (so halfway through the cycle I would be moving into positive weight territory) and 2-3 holds that I have to subtract a LOT of weight, and might never get to body weight.

For example the pinches on the Manderson hangboard are brutal!!! I have finally gotten to +2.5lb on medium pinch, after 3 cycles of hangboard. I started the first cycle at -50, and got stuck at -20, couldn't get better. Teh next cycle I started at -45, and got to -12.5, again, getting stuck and not getting better over multiple workouts, And then finally, finally, in the 3rd round it felt like, gee, I can do this, I kept adding weight in every workout, and went into positives.

Wait, what? He can't remember where he left off what? painting? And he can't see the difference? Then maybe it doesn't need to be done?

No chance of that happening in my basement, the difference between the spot that got two coats of the primer, and one coat, is very glaringly obvious, LOL.

I feel like I spend hours yesterday on spackling and repairing gaps (I did spackle before the first coat, but a lot of spots were just not visible on the wood, but became glaringly obvious after the first primer coat, like the gaps between panels in some places, etc). But after hours and hours of work, it feels like I barely made a dent.

Oh, and in unrelated gnus, it snowed last night. I haven't been out to the garden to see what survived, and what didn't... Ugh!
It is not the end of the world, the beauty of square foot gardening is that if Kale got killed... big deal, I only lost 4 seeds and couple weeks of time. Though I don't think kale got killed...Anyway, we'll see, tonight.

So I only have 27.5 pounds of weight at my apartment for me to take weight off, so I started mostly on larger holds (especially since my fingers were really not used to the strain I was putting on them).

Anyway, point on the dudes story is that as I'm increasing weight on the hold my finger hurt so bad! It's a bit of a strain on my winter fingers, but I'm talking skin issues here.

Anyway, I just asked Nathan is he had any more weights he could take up here for me. I'm thinking I should get off the larger holds and bump the subtracted weight way up. I also figure if I'm rejiggering my workout I should try switching over to the intermediate workout. Shorter hang might put a little less strain on my fingers, even though there's more total volume to the workout.

Still haven't gotten pinches, and while I asked Nathan to make them for me he apparently needs a CAD drawing before he'll do it. I'm not sure what's going to work best so I told him to just make some up and we'll see how they work.