[Jaspersharpe]

Whatever anyone thinks about it, this thread is going to be fucking entertaining.

[andy popp]

Whatever anyone thinks about it, this thread is going to be fucking entertaining.

Bah Humbug!

Short term: be in reasonable shape for Horse Pens 40 next month
Mid-term: 8a?

Mon: work
Tues: work (obviously), board in the evening - bouldering - not bad but failed to tick project
Wed: ache
Thurs: climb (Cheshire esoteria, one quite good new prob) board in the evening, shorter circuits, OK, bit tired from climbing
Fri: repeaters on fingerboard
Fri-Sun: house guests staying, gently sozzled most of weeked
Mon: nowt but don't drink at least
Tues: weighted pull-ups, haven't done any for ages but did as well as previous best

Can't be bothered doing food and weight bits.

[Will Hunt]

Goals: DKV2; easy Spanish ticks.
Weight: Less than 8st using Krank's scales.

M - Rest. Tout for friends.
T - Chapel: problem sets, endurance circuits and some opposites training.
W - Rest. Tout for partners.
T - Big wall routes (10 of).
F - Beer.
S - Curry. Tout for friends.
S - Found a friend! Scour guidebooks. Beer.

Wow! You did 10 big wall routes in a single day? That's surely worthy of note.

[nik at work]

Oh fuck it, what the hell, this might be motivating (or at least amusing)...

Aims:
8B, 8b(, E8)

Last Week:
Monday - It's my birthday, did (my first) new 8A+ to celebrate, spend the evening making every character from the cars movie out of Lego before puking all night.
Tuesday - Continue puking and add shitting to my repotoire, sleep all afternoon. Make a post office out of Lego in the evening.
Wednesday - Act as sidekick in project questing escapade.
Thursday - Strain back, start crag based DIY
Friday - Finish crag based DIY, evening trip to wall reasonably successful, back still sore
Saturday - Crag guiding at local venue for visiting hotshot then off to a Pirate party (sadly forget my pirate outfit, great shame), build two naughty robots and a car wash out of lego in the evening.
Sunday - Leave a crisp dry Tod to visit a damp Stanage, don't climb but get good cardio on an under three's hill-walking expedition. No Lego

[Jaspersharpe]

Whatever anyone thinks about it, this thread is going to be fucking entertaining.

Bah Humbug!

Not at all. Did you not read the other thread Andy? I couldn't be arsed reposting on here and although I might have used a little poetic licence I think I made it clear that I bear no malice towards this idea.

[andy popp]

Whatever anyone thinks about it, this thread is going to be fucking entertaining.

Bah Humbug!

Not at all. Did you not read the other thread Andy? I couldn't be arsed reposting on here and although I might have used a little poetic licence I think I made it clear that I bear no malice towards this idea.

S'alright, was only pulling your leg.

[Snoops]

Whatever anyone thinks about it, this thread is going to be fucking entertaining.

It looks to me suspiciously like 'UKC Fitness Club ' and personally i have better ways to motivate myself. 

[slackline]

It looks to me suspiciously like 'UKC Fitness Club ' and personally i have better ways to motivate myself. 

Really?  Who'd have thought it!!! 

Listen Up. I'm going to put up a new post each week on Sundays so anyone who wants to join in can log their training and climbing for the previous week. Its something I started on UKC as Fit Club and its run for nearly 3 years  . I want to keep it going here although for climbers only (as opposed to runners etc)

[Snoops]

It looks to me suspiciously like 'UKC Fitness Club ' and personally i have better ways to motivate myself. 

Really?  Who'd have thought it!!! 

Listen Up. I'm going to put up a new post each week on Sundays so anyone who wants to join in can log their training and climbing for the previous week. Its something I started on UKC as Fit Club and its run for nearly 3 years  . I want to keep it going here although for climbers only (as opposed to runners etc)

Fair enough, I'm afraid I didn't see that post that was on another thread....
Still not a thread for me anyways.

[SA Chris]

Last Week:
Monday -  spend the evening making every character from the cars movie out of Lego before puking all night.
Tuesday - Continue puking and add shitting to my repotoire, sleep all afternoon. Make a post office out of Lego in the evening.
Saturday - Crag guiding at local venue for visiting hotshot then off to a Pirate party (sadly forget my pirate outfit, great shame), build two naughty robots and a car wash out of lego in the evening.

Hadn't previously considered including Lego as part of a training regime. Find vomiting gives a good core workout though. Got headwetting with other new dads from NCT class on Friday night, first night with more than one drink since early December. No doubt vomiting will ensue.

[Stubbs]

Aims:
Be the best climber in Suffolk
Not go mental living in Bury St Edmunds
Not forget how to climb on rock
Use the distance from the scene to breed paranoia that i am getting weak to fuel more training
Zoo York

m: wrestled a 50kg TV up a flight of stairs.
t: Climbed at the local wall, got burnt off
w: rest
t: Long day hand augering on site followed by weights, power club, theraband, stretching and increasing paranoia
f: long day hand augering. drinks in London, lots of walking (got a bit lost)
s: Westway, showed the cockerneys how to climb despite crippling hangover. saw someone wearing an Accappppiiii top.
s:several miles walk around london's fashionable east end, good core workout from laughing at all the Barley characters walking around.

[chillax]

Fuck it why not, good for a laugh.

Long term goals: World domination, avoid sport climbing at all costs
Short (ish) term goals: Boulder 7b, all the  E2's on the main crag at Fair Head

Sunday- Murlough Bay. Ticked a 6c I'd not done before and droped the top of a 7a I had done. Rather stupid that was
Monday - Gym
Tuesday - Fingerboard session
Wednesday - Murlough Bay night session
Thursday - Session at Derry wall. Fingery old-skool scene
Friday - Not a tap
Saturday - Murlough Bay night sesh. Repeatedly greased off Carbide. Will do this with decent conditions
Sunday - Naught
Monday - Fingerboard (while watching Lesbian Vampire Killers, a work of comic genius)

[Fiend]

Will give it a go.

STGs:
Recover fitness via constant progress.
Meet people to go cragging with over winter.
Maintain decent trad form on accessible trad.
Train stamina and falling practice, ready for spring.
Push myself bouldering when no partners available.

MTGs:
Recover fitness via constant progress.
Meet people to go on longer Scottish trips with.
Climb at current limit on a variety of inspiring Scottish trad climbs.
Dabble in pushing myself sport climbing for local summer training.
Climb abroad in interesting locations.

LTGs:
Get enough fitness back to do trad in Scottish mountains.
Climb said trad in Scottish mountains.
Climb abroad in interesting and exotic locations.

(Sun: 40 mins hillwalk - exhausting.)
Mon: n/a
Tue: Go to Glasgow Uni Mountaineering Club pub meet, chat to some promising folks.
Wed: 3 hours hard bouldering on local project - didn't do it but very close, leg and finger sore, flapper on palm.
Thu: 1 decent trad lead at Dunkeld - felt fine on the trad, gear was a bit faffy, moves easy. Crag inspiring.
Fri: 2 hours gentle bouldering at Dumby - felt tricky, out of practise at Dumby.
Sat: 1 big trad lead at Glen Croe - bold, challenging, cold, not sure how I progressed yet; 45 minutes uphill staggering - exhausting; 1 hour easy bouldering - finger tweaky.
Sun: n/a

Summary:
Trad is going okay.
Bouldering felt okay on hard project but not so much on general mileage.
Walking uphill is cunting desperate.
My RH 3rd finger has an A2-type achey niggle, I am resting it for a bit and will try to take care.

[Jaspersharpe]

I think you need more goals Fiend.

[dave]

MTGs:
Dabble in pushing myself sport climbing for local summer training.

Walking uphill is cunting desperate.

 

[Fiend]

Hush, both of you  . The goals within genre are all fairly concurrent anyway.

[shark]

Hi Matt, Goals should have fixed goalposts so you know if you've scored or not. You could tighten up the STG's like this (example only) :

STGs:
Recover fitness via constant progress. Minimum of 2 stamina/endurancesessions on crag or indoors each week
Meet people to go cragging with over winter. Go outside and do roped climbing minimum once a week whatever the conditions
Maintain decent trad form on accessible trad. Benchmark and repeat x routes at x crag
Train stamina and falling practice, ready for spring. Falling practice on each visit to indoor wall
Push myself bouldering when no partners available. Do a problem at maximum grade without partner (witness!!)

Personally (like Jasper intimated) its better to reduce your goals to a couple of very specific achievable and measurable objectives - theres only so many things you can gun for and hold in your head at once.

[webbo]

short term goal
climb something harder than 7a outside again.
long term goal
still being able to pull hard when i'm 60

every morning first thing either lower back exs or shoulder theraband exs
mon.after work.rockcity been reset. did 18 or so problems up to v7
tue after work disussed going on turbo trainer with missus drank wine instead.
wed.after work rockcity repeated mondays problems plus 2 more.
thu. after work looked at beastmaker.drove to tescos for a bottle of wine instead.
fri.at work supermen,crabs,spidermen,crunches,press ups,body lowers,knee raises.
sat. bouldering at wrights rock.there have more successful days in my climbing career.friends for dinner more wine.
sun.working for self harm team.assessed a lot of people who seem to drink too much.thought about training.drank the left over wine instead.

[Fiend]

I lasted for several weeks on the UKC Fat Club before not wanting to participate, I was hoping to last more than a week before being put off this one...

Just because my goals are vaguer and non-numerical does not mean they are not clear goals and I'm not focused on them. I'll know if I'm achieving them alright (I'm aiming for a state of climbing rather than specific events anyway).

STGs:
Recover fitness via constant progress. Minimum of 2 stamina/endurancesessions on crag or indoors each week - talking about leg fitness anyway. I don't need to specifiy a set amount, just to know I've been putting some effort in each week.
Meet people to go cragging with over winter. Go outside and do roped climbing minimum once a week whatever the conditions - have you see what the conditions can be like up here?? I'm living in Glasgow not Siurana! Anyway, the point is finding people and mainting contacts to do said roped climbing with.
Maintain decent trad form on accessible trad. Benchmark and repeat x routes at x crag - I'm talking about onsighting overall, I don't repeat stuff, maintaining form is just getting out and doing it (and trying to do it well).
Train stamina and falling practice, ready for spring. Falling practice on each visit to indoor wall - this I agree with, but again I don't need to specify it.
Push myself bouldering when no partners available. Do a problem at maximum grade without partner (witness!!) - grades schmades, there's too much variety to set a number. Besides there are many ways to push oneself - flashing easier problems, successfully working something hard, working towards a project etc etc...

 

[magpie]

Yeah, Simon, stop trying to be helpful! 

I am not joining in just yet as my training plan is not fully set out, although I can tell you all that my current goal is to climb something, at some point, soonish. 

[Jaspersharpe]

I was only joking. Personally I think you can have as many goals as you like.

My only one at present is to manage to find the time and inclination to do more than one training session a week.
 

webbo - my life sounds like yours but with less exercise.

[shark]

I lasted for several weeks on the UKC Fat Club before not wanting to participate, I was hoping to last more than a week before being put off this one...

Just because my goals are vaguer and non-numerical does not mean they are not clear goals and I'm not focused on them.

Soz. You had put so much thought into goals that...err (stop digging Simon  )

Good to see what everyone gets up to though eh ?

[soapy]

..drank wine instead.

goal achieved

[slackline]

Goal : Enjoy my climbing

Monday : Went bouldering, had fun. Post-climbing beer tally == 2
Tuesday : Routes indoors, a good time was had +4 on the beer tally.
Wednesday : No training/climbing, went for a pleasant meal with the wife.  Only +2 (bottles) to the beer tally due to lazy waiters.
Thursday : Routes indoors, good laugh with mates, add another three to the beer tally.
Friday : Drove to Scotland.  +3 on the beer tally (I was a passanger btw)
Saturday : Winter climbing for the day, excellent fun. +4 beers and one whisky
Sunday : Up too late to climb (plus shitty weather) so walked up The Cobbler, nice walk, precarious scrambling onto the pinnacle in crampons.  Beer consumption curtailed as it was locked away behind a seat in the camper van

[Falling Down]

This is going to be well funny and inspiring in turns each week..

STG - Get over elbow injury/problem that I've had since last August
MTG (End 2010 depending on STG) - F7b+, E5 onsight, Font 7b
LTG - F8a, E6 onsight, Font7c

M - 1 hour run with dog
T to F - A hideous work week - travel, stress, food, wine, not enough sleep.
Sat - 1 hour run then drank beer, played XBoX and watched Stoke nearly beat City at COMS - chips and gravy
Sun - Newstones bouldering to 6c+ impressed with my own flexibility, out-climbed a 58 year old.

Turns out that my residual tennis elbow might be shoulder related which is great news.