[mrjonathanr]

JAN 24 good little Chapel session, 1.5 hrs
JAN 25 1 hr yoga
JAN 26 30 min run 1 hr yoga
JAN 27 1 hr board ( and shoulder not in total agony afterwards-yay)
JAN 28 1 hr yoga

[monkoffunk]

23 - post nights. Should really have done some yoga.
24 - DOMS. Few pull ups to try recover.
25 - 77.3kg. 12 hour shift at work, but made it to wall for about 2045. Good PE session, 6 laps of mostly high quality.
26 - Another 12 hour shift. Max hangs in eve. Good.
27 - Third 12 hour shift and this time just rest.
28 - Another session on Fighting Torque. Conditions couldn’t really have been better once sun off face. I think I was feeling the fatigue from the weekend, but no excuses, just couldn’t get it done. Fell from same high point twice again... next week...

[Ally Smith]

JAN 24 good little Chapel session, 1.5 hrs

 

#25 Chapel boulder
#26 Stretching & eccentrics
#27 More stretching, should have done more
#28 Cold lantern boulder. Sleeting at Curbar so headed to the shelter of Tom's Roof. Ticked Jerryatricks and some variations

Weight; 76.7 kg - could have been worse considering possible impact of business travel/socialising

[Duma]

24.
Fail - nights so sleeping then school run then nights again. Was always going to be tricky this one.
70.6 kg.
No booze.

25.
Fail - shattered from nights so couldn't drag myself out of bed to the wall. Tried to rouse myself after daughter in bed but managed 20 press ups and couldn't face anything else.
71.2 kg :-(
One beer.

26.
Hour swimming with daughter, pretty gentle, but we did walk to and from the pool as well (30 min each way).
70.8 kg
double whisky.

27.
Fail. No excuses.
69.8 kg.
4 beers (was a mates bday though).

28.
Hour at wall, planned a longer session but still seemed fucked from nights so slept in.
69.7 kg
one beer.

29.
2 hours at wall, good session hard bouldering. Felt refreshed for first time since nights last week.
69.8 kg
Will try to abstain this eve but bought some nice beer earlier so will prob fail.

Terrible few days Thurs - Sun, always a struggle when the back end of a set of nights coincides with me having my daughter for the weekend. Should have done better on Fri and Sun though. On the plus side, pleased with weight loss, it even seemed to survive the pub on Sun eve, hoping to stabilise around this level.

[Fiend]

28 - recovering from tonsilitis, 1 hour yoga, meh
29 - recovering from tonsilitis, eccentrics, mostly off painkillers so elbows starting to hurt again yay ffs.

Feeling better but also feeling like a fat lazy doughy blob. Will get back active today.

[SA Chris]

1 - Walk with Kids - 4 km approx
2 - Walk with Kids + evening bouldering with internal weightbelt
3 - Hopefully run at lunch, see if I am over lurgy or not. - edit - not, i think i left a trail of phlegm and a lung

4 - short walk with kids
5 - brisk walk to get car
6 - short walk with kids
7 - lunch run - feeling marginally better, throat still raw though.

Still on wagon, but tentative clinging to bumper, rather than riding shotgun.

8 - Nothing I can recall, packing bags.
9 - Walk to cubs not even ten minutes
10 - Fly to Geneva
11 - Board all day - Les Gets / Mont Chery
12 - ski all day - Les Gets / Morzine
13 - Ski all day -  Grand Massif  / Flaine
13 - ski all day - Praz de Lys
14 - board all day - Avoriaz / Chatel
15 - ski half day Les Gets - walk around Schipol getting bored when flight delayed.
16 - walk kids to school. Token fingerboards
17 - yoga lunchtime - 1 hour
18 - lunch run, 6 km.

19 - long run - 4 k with Kyle on bike, 13.7 km without
20 - out with kids, can't remember where
21 - nothing
22 - lunch run 7.5km
23 - bouldering session. Felt OK for first session if the year.
24 - nothing much really. Walked kids to school.
25 - lunch hill reps, hard.
26 - long run - 21 km. Fucking grim, pissed down most of the way.
27 - nothing much, weather crap. Weights while watching telly, short walk.
28 - boulder session. Didn't feel terrible, did some hard moves
29 - treadmill tempo session 5.5 km @ M pace + 2.5 km @HM pace. Hard.

[Duma]

29.
2 hours at wall, good session hard bouldering. Felt refreshed for first time since nights last week.
69.8 kg
Will try to abstain this eve but bought some nice beer earlier so will prob fail.

Did have a beer. Also did 80 press ups though.

[shark]

25 Awesome board session ticking both Oak projects
26 Short sess on systems board to do aero cap but aborted it as got pumped to quickly
27 Bracing 2.5 hour walk and fossick with dogs fromHiggar to Lawrencefield and back
28 Session on Blind Date in morning and short max hangs session late at night which I overcooked
29 Autobelay laps at Foundry

Weighed in at 11.3 this morning which is heading in the right direction.

No booze 

[mrjonathanr]

29 1hr board session, shoulder isn’t complaining too bitterly today    + 1 hr yoga.
30 Snow day so 2 hrs easy traversing at Awful Walls.

[shark]

Last day!!!

[Plattsy]

28. 5km hilly gentle run
29. 2 hours on the Wave. New set. Level 2s defo up a notch. Two dead easy level 3s.
30. Planned run but not feeling great. Fail.
31. Unsurprisingly not feeling great. Just a sore throat. Quick session later perhaps.

[shark]

30 Last minute visit to dentist.  Came out unpsyched to go outside. Max hangs session with lower weight but still burnt out. Went on my home board. Managed to repeat #Oak2. Short dog walk. Walked to strength class. Half of my temporary tooth fell out. Felt under par at strength class and started feeling woozy and headachy at end so missed last station. Went home and straight to bed

31 Dog walk in a bit then dance class this evening. Will try and book into dentist again

Weight has been stubbornly holding out this month then suddenly started dropping in last few days for no obvious reason. This pattern has happened before. 7 day average has dropped from 160.3lbs for first week in Jan to 158.2lbs for last 7 days ie 2.1lb difference. However weighed in at 155.8lbs this morning compared to 161.2lbs on Jan 1st ie 5.4lb difference although to be fair I ate bugger all yesterday due to loss of appetite and lost 1.6lb overnight

[Duma]

30.
55 min run, 180 press ups (work are doing 1000 press ups in Jan challenge, and as of Tues afternoon I'd only done 600).
70.2 kg.
3 beers (1.5 pints)

[James Malloch]

28 (updated). Had a depot session in the evening also. Good board session on the 30 - some new projects and managed some easier things.
29. Fail - as per other weeks, German classes are getting in the way.
30. Gym at lunch time. 2km @ 15km/h. Weighted pull ups, close grip rows, DB curls, stretching / physio

[jwi]

Weekly average weight by day:


28 Double session FB in the morning, Bouldering gym in the evening. Strength + strength endurance
29 Double session. Core+shoulders in the morning. Campus w. feet in the evening
30 Very very little sleep, No training.
31 Still little sleep. FB at lunch. Planning a boulder session tonight. Hope I'm not too sleepy.

I started a few days late on this period of fasting, abstinence, and penitence due to family commitment, and at current weight loss of 48 g/day or 330 g/week I will need at least 2 more weeks to achieve my goals. It still boggles my mind when people are speaking blithely about loosing half a kilo/a pound a week. I don't think I could loose weight faster than I do now while living this sedentary lifestyle (it is easier when I'm out and about all day, but when the day mostly consist of driving to work, sitting in front of a desk and giving lectures and classes...)

[monkoffunk]

How tall are you?

[jwi]

How tall are you?

179.5 cm and shrinking.

[SA Chris]

De-sedentarise your lifestyle? Always time for a quick walk / run / swim / cycle.

[monkoffunk]

People loosing weight faster (such as myself) probably just had more the loose to begin with.

[shark]

I started a few days late on this period of fasting, abstinence, and penitence due to family commitment, and at current weight loss of 48 g/day or 330 g/week I will need at least 2 more weeks to achieve my goals. It still boggles my mind when people are speaking blithely about loosing half a kilo/a pound a week. I don't think I could loose weight faster than I do now

All heading the right way - you seem very disciplined. Bet you are in single figure % body fat. I’m not there yet according to body monitoring scales.

My weekly weight loss has been generally slow. (week one down 0.4lb week two down 0.1lb week three 1.1lb week four down 0.6lb)

My current main tactic is on rest days to not to eat till midday or longer if I can hold out. Also keep sugar and other simple carb intake lowish.

[gollum]

RED. Ran every day in support of MIND campaign except the days in the middle when I was snowboarding and the day I missed due to a stinking cold. (A run I caught up by doubling up with the second one in dreadful conditions).

Feel better for it physically but more importantly mentally.

[jwi]

All heading the right way - you seem very disciplined. Bet you are in single figure % body fat. I’m not there yet according to body monitoring scales.

Probably just above 10%, some visible vascularity on abs. But hard to judge even with callipers at my age as lots of the body fat is around internal organs. I don't trust body monitoring scales at all.

My current main tactic is on rest days to not to eat till midday or longer if I can hold out.

“For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.” So the bible says and it's still the news

[cheque]

I'd take slow but steady weight loss as a sign that you're doing it healthily. There are plenty of ways to lose weight very quickly but none of them will have a positive impact on your climbing in anything but the very short term.

[monkoffunk]

29 - rest, did need it. 75.8kg. Lightest since Christmas but think dehydrated. Headache by evening.
30 - 76.7kg. Power endurance at red again.
31 - I might do some yoga when I get home but who knows.


Not sure I really did this right other than a glorified kind of power club but maybe a few extra yoga sessions. Couple of kilos off since Christmas but still a little off my lightest. More work to be done to get up Fighting Torque.

[Fiend]

30 - 1 hour gentle gym, just getting back into it. 5 gentle minutes on rowing machine at the end and my elbows were twinging.
31 - 2 hours medium gym. Avoided rowing, lifted some weights. Elbow capsules sore before but not any worse after. Eccentrics.

What a festering shitshow of a Sharkathon. Constantly fucked elbows stopped me training almost anything relevant to climbing, legs and winter weather hampered training CV, freezing temps hampered doing recommended easy mileage at walls, trying yoga properly just put me off it even more, and tonsilitis garnished the whole thing nicely with fuck all exercise for several days unless you count tensing and spasming while swallowing.

I've almost certainly come out of it heavier, less fit, and considerably weaker than at the start. The only neutral aspects are during my brief dabblings on rock (Font6A-B, down from 6C-7A) I haven't got worse technically, I'm no worse at the gym, and my guts don't seem any worse. Hoo-fucking-rah. 
  etc etc whatever.