[jwi]

Smoking works really well too...

In my experience, nothing legal works as well as smoking

[Banana finger]

I guess everyone has a natural "fighting weight" which if you go above you're gonna struggle on "dirkers" and if you go below you feel good in the fingers but arms/shoulders/body gets weak and of course you are probably in injury territory!

It is probably good to keep track of your weight and how you are climbing.....Its a pretty awesome feeling when you feel strong down the wall, then weigh yourself and find you're slightly heavier than expected!

Being light to climb hard is akin to selling your soul to the Devil......quick gains, long term regret.....I guess I am still suffering from starving myself as a younger man and screwing up my joints!

Plus as a good friend once said "who wants to stand naked in front of a woman (*or man) looking like a pre pubescent boy"

[Nibile]

I guess everyone has a natural "fighting weight" which if you go above you're gonna struggle on "dirkers" and if you go below you feel good in the fingers but arms/shoulders/body gets weak and of course you are probably in injury territory!

It is probably good to keep track of your weight and how you are climbing.....Its a pretty awesome feeling when you feel strong down the wall, then weigh yourself and find you're slightly heavier than expected!

Being light to climb hard is akin to selling your soul to the Devil......quick gains, long term regret.....I guess I am still suffering from starving myself as a younger man and screwing up my joints!

Plus as a good friend once said "who wants to stand naked in front of a woman (*or man) looking like a pre pubescent boy"

Amen to that.
I'm glad you wrote it, so that I didn't have to!

[Adam Lincoln]

I don't think its coincidence i climbed my hardest stuff when i was 1 stone lighter than i am now. 8b's quickly and 8b+. Though i was also climbing full time and getting outdoors 4/5 times a week. I wasn't training so didn't need the calories. Its not something you can sustain for very long. 6 weeks maybe, tops. Not sure about bouldering as i wasn't doing much back then.

[Oldmanmatt]

As Adam said...

In my twenties, when climbing hard, I was ~72kg.
On my "resurrection", at it's peak, in 2010; I was 74kg and 7C/8A projecting.
Now, with various "itis" type thingys going on (and general old age stuff) sitting around 87kg.
Still strong enough to manage Muscle-ups and one armers but feel too damn heavy to climb anything.


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[Doylo]

I find you get 3/4 weeks of awesomeness after initial diet so need to time it right.

[B0405413]

Cheers for the replies, I agree that feeling light does not necessarily equate to being light.

[SA Chris]

Same as feeling shite does not necessarily equate to being shite.

[B0405413]

This is true.