{"id":921,"date":"2022-05-07T20:48:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T19:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/?p=921"},"modified":"2022-05-07T20:48:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T19:48:07","slug":"beastmaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2022\/05\/07\/beastmaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Beastmaking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I finished this book<\/a> this week. I have been climbing for a while and I really love it. But as well, for several years I think I am not improving. I dont make a living with climbing but I want to try more difficult routes and challenge myself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I decided I was going to start to try different things to get stronger and climb harder. First of all, early this year, after watching this video<\/a>, I decided to put in use my beastmaker board that was gathering dust…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It took me a weekend of DIY for completing it…. But has been worth it. Although I haven’t managed to get an schedule to do it twice a day. I do it on weekends morning and some non-climbing weekdays. I think I feel some improvement though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later on, I started to do weighted pull-ups as recommended by a fellow climber from the gym. This was the excuse to buy a harness after soooo many years! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since last year, I had a finger injury so that kept me out of proper climbing for several months but I discovered endurance. I was only able to make easy routes and put low stress in my finger so with time I managed an expected endurance. So I was happy with that and I am trying to get an endurance session each week (if my skin agrees with that). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As well, I had watched this video<\/a> several times and it helped too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the last couple of months I started to get back to the normal climbing checking how my finger was feeling. So I decided to keep adding things. And the book has clarified many things. I really need to improve my finger strength. Something I have ignored as I always thought it was too much for me and it was easy to get injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prioritise fingers and flexibility. Work in your “core”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do high-intensity strength training when you are fresh and well rested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finger strength takes time, it is a slow process, dont rush it. And dont get injured!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Important is to warm-up and stretch. So this is always do so I am happy I have it in my routine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book gives a lot examples (and have very nice pictures) for exercises. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I need to try things and build my training plan. And very likely get back to the book to refresh things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I finished this book this week. I have been climbing for a while and I really love it. But as well, for several years I think I am not improving. I dont make a living with climbing but I want to try more difficult routes and challenge myself. So I decided I was going to … Continue reading “Beastmaking”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-climbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}