Nordic Blood: Climbing And Lifting / Lifting And Climbing

I’m not using it as an excuse to not train it directly but I don’t emphasise it as much as I might otherwise would have :slight_smile: I try and put my effort into my triceps instead

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For whatever reason i always had more success in bringing up my biceps than my triceps! Whereas I’ve been doing more tricep work in my life I’m sure, and I feel them right!

Since we have the same build according to CT we need less pulling work.

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Yeah and I’m doing his conjugate stuff which is all pulling ahahah I know, better focus on our weaknesses :wink:

I know what I’ll do: less back, more single-leg stuff, chest, arms.

Chest is a weakness for you? My pecs are really dominant but that’s probably because I’ve been benching without managing to use my tris for two years…

I don’t want to clutter CTs sub-forum with this but man, I can imagine this being the instinctual reaction an author would have to all the dumb shit we come and ask them sometimes,

Etc4FPj

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Tuesday, 2020-09-08

Committed Week 2, Day 8 #committed2020

Climbing 2h10m

Long session today, three person rotation and after I was done another friend wanted a belay and he fought a long while with the route he was on (twenty minutes or so easy) and so I something shy of three hours in the hall.

Anyway, as far as my own performance is concerned (all lead, zero falls)

  1. 5c
  2. 6b+
  3. 6b
  4. 7a
  5. 6b+

Then the plan was to do alternating chin-ups/pull-ups and do 50 in as short a time frame as possible but I forgot to start the timer so instead I did sets with 20 second rests and did

15
10
5s in perpetuity until I reached 50.

The 5c was a nice and breezy warm-up.

The first 6b+ is a 6b+ on top-rope and it was brutally hard on lead. Easily a 7a+. For sure a climbing PR, hardest climb I ever did by a significant margin. To make an analogy, imagine a 10-15 kilo PR on an overhead press for how far removed this performance was from what I ordinarily train at. Sweaty when I came down, decent forearm pump that took a while to subside. It was really technical, you had to keep your hips just perfect to stay on the grips for as long as was required to clip. Much love.

Then an easy 6b

A repeat performance on the 7a. An old project of mine that I have down to a science at this point

Finished with a marginally challenging 6b+, that I want to repeat as I used a bit too much strength and too little technique to be happy with it. I did utter out aloud at 3/4 of the way to the top “are you fucking kidding me?” when I thought I was going to fall but I just pushed through it. Had to breathe quite heavily on a section prior to that. Lifting really helps here. I know how to breathe my way through an effort.


Post-workout meal: 2xPancakes with bananas & cottage cheese mixed with O’boy (sugar and cocoa basically). One pancake with pomegranate and raspberry marmelade and one pancake with maple syrup. Yum

Slightly cooled down back-picture @aldebaran:

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@anna_5588 I don’t think these belong in food porn but I think you would’ve like these meals,

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This looks tasty as fuck damn! And I’ve been only eatin garbage for months ughhh

Back still looks yummy like the pancakes ahahah

Why are you eating garbage fam?

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He says that all the time, then turns up looking like a fucking underwear model.

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Oh, he meant he’s been eating delicious shit and even then the pancakes looked good? If so, I appreciate the compliment

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No no I’m eating out all the time. Today double burgers and fries.

I guess because I’m going out and partying all the time…

But for real starting thursday I’m going clean

Sounds expensive

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Yeah it is… 15€ for a burger ughhh

And the alcohol as well. So I’m not gonna have a choice but to restraint myself anyway because money gonna be tight

I wish our resident financially responsible @danteism with his aptly named log would post more. Maybe he could inspire you in gaining whilst frugal.

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I know how I’m just going out all the time ahah I’m bored

Drinking pink gin and lemonade right now. Girly but delicious

Hey man, I’m glad for you that you can have fun. On a more self-centered note it’s very helpful for me to see someone that manages to kill it in the gym and still live your life with all of my orthorexic tendencies. The pancakes are such a win for me, personally. I’m still mindful that you have a TDEE far higher than mine which is presumably how you can find space for alcoholic drinks as well.

Meanwhile, I was just thinking about what you said earlier about me being 1-3 kgs shy of beach bod and I’m not sure you were thinking in the right direction,

That lower belly pouch won’t go away unless I fill out my frame with some LBM first or so I’m guessing. At my lightest I was sub 70 kilos and it was still there more or less so :woman_shrugging:

Gotta admit, I’m pretty much only posting if someone tags me, kinda gotten lazy in that way. I should post more just to keep a habit of doing so.

Ragarding the topic at hand, I’ve actually just lately noted how easy it is to get away with a “dull” diet when you’re doing plenty of other stuff that gives you a dopamine boost.

It could just be a coincidence, but I do feel like if I get that dopamine spike from say, training or socializing (obviously this is kinda limited atm) or playing some games it hinders cravings and makes you think less of food in general.

Part of that is of course just that you have less time to do so when you’re doing stuff. You’re not eating out of boredom, and you’re not eating because that is the only source of satisfaction and excitement you have.

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Ya think!!!