Caveat - Everyone is different, and there will be "strength" carry over from a wide variety of exercises. When I train finger strength, including a second FB specific warmup, I hang for a total of 60-80 seconds over the entire workout. Your workout is 42sec x 4 x 2 = 320 seconds of hang time. Can you tell the difference, and obviously which direction I would recommend?
I'd day that's pretty normal for Max hangs, in my last block I was experimenting with a 6-8-10-8-6 pyramid so total hang time was only 42 38 seconds. Saw good gains over 10 sessions.
Before anyone notices:Quote from: nai on January 07, 2016, 06:26:50 pmI'd day that's pretty normal for Max hangs, in my last block I was experimenting with a 6-8-10-8-6 pyramid so total hang time was only 42 38 seconds. Saw good gains over 10 sessions.So pick a routine and go with it, there's pretty much no right or wrong, it's mostly a matter of getting on with the hard work.
Quote from: Sasquatch on January 07, 2016, 04:53:34 pmCaveat - Everyone is different, and there will be "strength" carry over from a wide variety of exercises. When I train finger strength, including a second FB specific warmup, I hang for a total of 60-80 seconds over the entire workout. Your workout is 42sec x 4 x 2 = 320 seconds of hang time. Can you tell the difference, and obviously which direction I would recommend? Really!? Is that when you're focusing on fingerboarding (if you do)? Is this a full session, or always followed/proceeded by bouldering or similar? My current session is a total of 252-378 seconds on each arm, depending on whether I do 2 or 3 sets, if I complete every set (I reckon failure usually adds up to 20-60 seconds on each arm), after a warm up. I've never got on with Eva Lopez/very short sets though.
Cheers for the detailed reply Sas. That does look like max strength! I'm amazed you can warm up so fast. I've tried similar sessions in the past but never felt like they worked very well for me, hence why I do more volume now. Each to their own!
WU 3 x (20 sec bar hang, 15 sec rest, 5pullups, 15 sec rest, 5 ATB's, 15 sec rest) FB WU - 10 x (10 sec hang, 30sec rest) these are progressive hangs starting unweighted on a jug, and ending with a 10 sec unweighted hang on the workout edge.Progressive hangs - 3 x 10 sec hang adding weight each time