[Fiend]

 Day 27

1 hour indoor bumbling. 10 mins rowing warm-up, some conditioning. Attempted Aerocap min on min off on stamina wall. Tried some trickier moves traversing after. 1 x 3:30 min plank, with no gimmicks 


Despite nothing feeling especially worse than usual, climbing was both extremely unenjoyable and, since the wall area was full of young, strong, uninjured cunts, just as extremely demoralising.

[SA Chris]

27th - come kettlebells and push ups 10km run, usual Thursday loop, first time without a headtorch for a while. Hip tweaky but OK.

[webbo]

27th. 30 mins stretching bike 4hrs 6 mins 67.4 miles got an absolute battering as wind choose to blow in the wrong direction and was stronger than I expected.
I may have to invent some sort of pseudo exercise regime tomorrow.

[Duma]

28 - 2 x 1:50 plank. Indoor bouldering, 3 hrs

70.7

[Fiend]

28 - 50 mins / 1.8 miles kneehab walk. 1 hour gym with the usual rehab fucking everything bollox. Heavy rows felt a tiny bit better and very carefully eased back to 100kg deadlift which is my usual warm-up weight. 2 x 1.51 mins inverted altitude plank (superglued toes and elbows to ceiling and tried to maintain good form hanging there) 

[webbo]

100kg deadlift as a warm up and gets injured a lot 

[Fiend]

100kg warm up was when I was uninjured and maxing at 150-ish, and would be physically well warmed up overall. I've  only ever got injured once deadlifting and that was some mild lower back soreness / tightness from trying to lift after running 0.7 miles to the gym and thus having very de-oxygenated legs. There's been several times where I've curtailed lifts and backed off heavier weights because things didn't feel good. So, err, 

[webbo]

28th. Would put shopping  delivery away count. So half way through 30 minute stretching regimen and got a phone call asking me if I could attend my appointment with dental hygienist early. So 90 minutes later finish off stretching.
Decided to go for board session to try and do the problem I couldn’t do on 26th. Managed it second go after dodging the moves. Managed 40 minutes.
Put away shopping 30 minutes.

[Fiend]

If you've got a 100kg shopping delivery then yes it counts 

Pretty sure 70mins of other stuff counts anyway 

[webbo]

100kg warm up was when I was uninjured and maxing at 150-ish, and would be physically well warmed up overall. I've  only ever got injured once deadlifting and that was some mild lower back soreness / tightness from trying to lift after running 0.7 miles to the gym and thus having very de-oxygenated legs. There's been several times where I've curtailed lifts and backed off heavier weights because things didn't feel good. So, err, 

Just a thought if you weighed say 75kg  and do a pull up with 75kg hanging off you. Would you warm up with a pull up with an extra 25kg.
Given there was probably about 12 crates of stuff there might have been 100kg.

[Fiend]

Just a thought if you weighed say 75kg  and do a pull up with 75kg hanging off you. Would you warm up with a pull up with an extra 25kg.

I wouldn't be twatting around rehabbing and moaning my way through the sharkathon if I could do a +75kg pull-up FFS 

Not sure that context-less maths really helps. If I could do a 1RM of 2xBW pullup, then would I warm up to that exercise (AFTER  20-30 mins of general activity and increased intensity warm up - sorry if I didn't imply this clearly enough) by doing say 5 reps @ 1.3xBW, 3 reps @ 1.6xBW and 2 reps @ 1.8xBW ?? Quite probably yes - assuming my body felt good and I was generally reliably strong on pull-ups.

In fact if I applied that overall strategy including the general warm-up to every time I push things, I wouldn't be answering the question because I wouldn't be on this thread sharkathonning because I'd have avoided most of my elbow-wrecking (if you're really bored I did the mother of all mind-numbing navel-gazing injury introspection on my blog recently).

[webbo]

Have you thought of getting a bike .

[Paul B]

 

Have you thought of getting a bike .

Don't go there, I tried.

[lagerstarfish]

Day 28

added a bit of extra to the cycle commute so about 45 mins

walked 12km

not really feeling like a climber of any sort

felt like starting a fight at several points in the day, but remembered that I am old and slow

[SA Chris]

some press ups 1 x 3:00 plank, some theraband and kettlebells and a wee bit of core, plus some hip exercises.

[Fiend]

29 - 2 hours mostly vert indoor routes F6a - F6b so basically hillwalking. 22 hours rest of the day in a continuous plank whilst posting shite on UKB on my phone 


(I was exactly as rubbish on routes as expected, but bizarrely was not nearly as miserable and demoralised as I expected. I think this is partly because even the easier routes had a bit more interest on smaller holds than most of the bumbly bouldering, and also because I didn't feel too inhibited by my knee nor my elbow - I was shit, but it felt like a shitness that I could currently work on. My knee felt quite "worked" afterwards from a lot of press moves in a row, and also my previously uninjured left shoulder flared up in an impingment type way, completely ignoring all the good work I've been doing recently on shoulder and upper back stuff, so it can fuck right off)

[Duma]

29 - 2 x 1:50 plank. Pull ups, press ups, squats. Was going to fingerboard but slept all day, nights are feeling hard on the comeback from covid.

70.3

[webbo]

29th. Woke up with a sore arthritic hip. It was a bit twitchy after driving last night. 30 mins stretching and it was still sore. Moped about for most of the morning then decided to go on the board. 1 hr 20 mins later battered but hip was feeling fine.
After watching wife, grandson and next door neighbour cutting the hedge felt obliged to go and assist. 90 mins hedge cutting.

[Wellsy]

Friday - Anston, worked out the top of The Last Stand reliably. The dynamic slap is still nails. I've only done the move twice and it was a whole ago. Think I need to be very fresh.

Saturday - big ol walk

Today - weighted lockoffs (32kgs, 10 seconds, 3 at 90 degrees, 3 at 120). 3 x 12 20kgs dumbbell bench, 3 x 10 12.5kgs dumbbell OHP. bit of stretching.

Warming up for deadlifting is a good topic. When I was doing a few sets of 120kgs for say 3 as my maximum for a session, then I'd start at 70kgs. I feel if you max around 150 and you're already nice and warm plus somewhat experienced then starting at a 100kgs feels okay although I'd say 110kgs would be pushing it a bit. Depends how much you do it, time you have, how fucked you're alright with being for the next few days etc

[Fiend]

30 - 30 mins / 1.6 mile kneehab walk. A bit of light mobility stuff. 1 x 4:30 min plank, naked* 


(Knee definitely feeling worked after yesterday's vert routing, and gym the day before, so felt a light day was in order, same for elbow too. Intended to do a lot more stretching, but fell asleep then started painting another toy soldier. Still feel vaguely un-miserable after not hating routes yesterday)


* - apart from compression stockings, of course.

[SA Chris]

 28th -

some press ups 1 x 3:00 plank, some theraband and kettlebells and a wee bit of core, plus some hip exercises.

29th - wall session. First tome back in 2 weeks, didn't expect much, didn't do much, still enjoyed it.

30th - 5km walk with family. Some kettlebells.

[Duma]

30 - 2 x 1:50 plank.  Ancap repeaters on fingerboard.

70.3

Almost there team!

[lagerstarfish]

Day 29

60 mins cycling

10km walk at work

Walk out with my wife to visit two new bars and one new to us restaurant. Taxi home, so probably still only scoring in the snowflake version of Sharkathon.

Day 30

Went climbing outside. Didn't do anything hard, but felt like a climber and had fun.

The roads were dry in between various family commitments, so I did some surfskate hill sprints. Managed not to throw up and amused the neighbors by lying on the floor with my legs in the air.
I am very happy to have found an activity that feels like this without hurting my joints too much.

[webbo]

30th. Bike 4 hrs 8 mins 68.65 miles.

[Nutty]

24 - Stretching and bodyweight exercises. Achilles and shoulder exercises.
25 - Stretching and bodyweight exercises. Achilles and shoulder exercises.
26 - Had intended to go to the wall, but had sore throat. Tested negative, but thought I'd take it easy. 30 mins stretching.
27 - Throat still sore. 30 mins stretching.
28 - 30 mins stretching.
29 - Garden board session. Much better session than last week.
30 - Stretching and bodyweight exercises. Achilles and shoulder exercises.

Not the most active week. Still did something every day but minimal on a few days. Didn't get any running in this week.