...average 7b climber...
where you are to the average 7b climber across a variety of training measures and identify our weaknesses (or even strengths) Worth it or not?
"anthropometric" (length, arm-span, body fat %, etc) explain very little of the variation in performance, whereas trainable factors (relative muscular strength, endurance and power) explained a lot (60% of the variation in the sample).
I mean, if I do 40 pullups and climb 7c while my mate does 20 and clmbs 8b, probably I have to readdress my schedule...
but shorties are always going to have to have a better strength to weight ratio to climb 90% of the things lankies do, which is convenient since they are inherently at an advantage when it comes to strength to weight.
Does anyone ever understand anything dense says on here?
Quote from: jwi on October 09, 2012, 12:03:26 am"anthropometric" (length, arm-span, body fat %, etc) explain very little of the variation in performance, whereas trainable factors (relative muscular strength, endurance and power) explained a lot (60% of the variation in the sample).So anthropometric explained the other 40%? That's a lot.
Quote from: r-man on October 09, 2012, 10:30:07 am but shorties are always going to have to have a better strength to weight ratio to climb 90% of the things lankies do, which is convenient since they are inherently at an advantage when it comes to strength to weight.Fixed. A short 8c climber would be expected to out perform a tall 8c climber on foot-off strength-to-weight exercises (you can view this as the shorty 'having' to be stronger, or the lanky one having an inherent disadvantage when it comes to being strong at these exercises).
I suspect you are thinking about Spanish sport climbing and I'm thinking about scrappy UK sitstarts.
Perhaps things even out over a longer distance, but they don't seem to on boulders.
I know who usually has to do the most and hardest moves to get to the top.
But it means that for bouldering, comparing training strength to grades would need to account for a lot of variables before it had any sort of meaning.
Having said that it might be moderately entertaining knowing ukB 'vitalstatistics' ie time hang on 5mm edge; bench press, pull ups on a bar etc...
Surely for all the variables you can think of it'll come down to finger strength and finger endurance?Struggling to remember Malc's exact quote, was it: "fingers, fingers, fingers"?
What next are we gonna quote ondra as saying fingers don't matter it's biceps biceps biceps, cos that's where he struggles. Obviously they've done him no harm but if he was to point out his weaknesses that's where he'd identify.
Quote from: nai on October 09, 2012, 11:17:18 amSurely for all the measurable variables you can think of it'll come down to finger strength and finger endurance?Struggling to remember Malc's exact quote, was it: "fingers, fingers, fingers"?
Surely for all the measurable variables you can think of it'll come down to finger strength and finger endurance?Struggling to remember Malc's exact quote, was it: "fingers, fingers, fingers"?
I normally suffer core failure before my fingers give up...
Quote from: tomtom on October 09, 2012, 10:57:09 pmI normally suffer core failure before my fingers give up...That'll be your diet of Demon Wall Roof, Dolphin, Underhand, Keel, etcDon't recall it being your core that gave out on The Rasp
Shirley thats more to do with having a fat arse.
Was doing some stuff at work and I got thinking about the resource that is UKB. Would there be any value in trying to benchmark feats of strength etc against worked grade eg can hang a 1cm edge for x amount of time, lock off x, campus y, do a front lever for, do so many pull ups and climbs grade x
Quote from: webbo on October 10, 2012, 02:40:24 pmShirley thats more to do with having a fat arse.You saying my arse looks big Webbo Heard you'd moved to the South Bank - not seen you at RockShitty for a while.. things alright?
shorties are always going to have to be better climbers to climb 90% of the things lankies do.
Quote from: r-man on October 09, 2012, 10:30:07 amshorties are always going to have to be better climbers to climb 90% of the things lankies do.Firstly, I don't see why hot girls should be at an inherent disadvantage in climbing.Secondly, you're wrong. Here's the SCIENCE:http://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,10347.msg171064.html#msg171064