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I am training for the Red River Gorge on a very short bouldering wall. At the tallest, the ceiling is between 5 and 7.5 feet. What the wall lacks in height it makes up for with options for traversing.
Starting in August I have been climbing 3 days a week, and after this weekend (my 6th training day) I will have accumulated about 500 min on the wall. After that I will have 4 more training days of endurance before I switch to strength training on the hangboard.
When training endurance or "base fitness" I normally stay on the wall for sets that last about 15 to 35 minutes, and rack up a total of 80 min per training day. That is about all that my skin can handle with the heat and humidity of the South East Ohio summer.
The lap in the video illustrates one of the least steep routes through the room and takes advantage of rests where the ceiling is high enough to actually stand up. Other times I do laps with big moves from big holds to work full body strength. However, I already have good endurance on big holds and want to improve my endurance on smaller holds and less steep angles. So I am trying to spend more time grabbing smaller holds, and resting on holds that are less than full hand jugs.
The Rock Climber's Training Manual advocates for endurance training on wall angles ranging between vertical and 30 degrees but I don't really have much terrain for that. Hopefully, creative use of rests and using smaller holds than I had used in the past (i.e avoiding most of the jugs and using more 1st and 2nd pad holds) will offset the "too steep" limitation and help me complete some tall endurance routes at the Red this fall.
Starting in August I have been climbing 3 days a week, and after this weekend (my 6th training day) I will have accumulated about 500 min on the wall. After that I will have 4 more training days of endurance before I switch to strength training on the hangboard.
When training endurance or "base fitness" I normally stay on the wall for sets that last about 15 to 35 minutes, and rack up a total of 80 min per training day. That is about all that my skin can handle with the heat and humidity of the South East Ohio summer.
The lap in the video illustrates one of the least steep routes through the room and takes advantage of rests where the ceiling is high enough to actually stand up. Other times I do laps with big moves from big holds to work full body strength. However, I already have good endurance on big holds and want to improve my endurance on smaller holds and less steep angles. So I am trying to spend more time grabbing smaller holds, and resting on holds that are less than full hand jugs.
The Rock Climber's Training Manual advocates for endurance training on wall angles ranging between vertical and 30 degrees but I don't really have much terrain for that. Hopefully, creative use of rests and using smaller holds than I had used in the past (i.e avoiding most of the jugs and using more 1st and 2nd pad holds) will offset the "too steep" limitation and help me complete some tall endurance routes at the Red this fall.
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