I know that one of the main things top climbers say is to work you're weaknesses so i am trying to address that at the moment but they don't usually explain why.Is it to make you a better all round climber?I know that fixing weaknesses will ultimately enable you to climb a larger variety of stuff at a certain grade but wouldn't focussing on your strengths push your maximum grade more?
oh I understand that slack line but it won't actually affect your maximum grade will it. You may be able to climb v8 on crimpy routes and only v5 on slopy ones but bringing your sloper strength up to par won't mean you are suddenly climbing v9.That improvement to get to v9 will still be just as hard no?
Cheers for the replies guys, seems like most people just do what I do.I don't necessarily feel like I have plateaued massively, I just want to improve as quickly as I can.
I know that one of the main things top climbers say is to work you're weaknesses so i am trying to address that at the moment but they don't usually explain why.Is it to make you a better all round climber?
I understand that in bodybuilding you eventually compromise your gains if you don't target all areas of your body so is that the same in climbing?I know that fixing weaknesses will ultimately enable you to climb a larger variety of stuff at a certain grade but wouldn't focussing on your strengths push your maximum grade more?
... it is benchmarking every three months or so. If i can get some metric of improvement, its so much easier to motivate myself to keep trying!Why not see how much weight (if any) you need to take off with a pulley set up to one arm hang a one pad edge for 5 seconds - then repeat that every so often to see if you are getting stronger? Or for power endurance you could see how many moves of foot on campussing you can do at a max effort, and then repeat that as a benchmark.
then track % gains in reps, duration, weight added/removed with simple formulae.
Cheers for the replies but how do you plot more than 2 things on a graph?If I am tracking length of hold and weight added against a calendar how does that work? You would also have a graph for every single grip position on every different hold I assume?
Also, although the resistance on the pulley is constant for a given weight it will obviously change if the weight changes. For 50kg it may be an added resistance of 20kg whereas for 20kg it may only be 5kg. Its not likely to be a simple function of the weight added times a percentage.