[rginns]

10 - 1hr endurance circuits on the board

[nik at work]

10 - The Works 1.5 hours steady away.

[webbo]

10. 15 minutes stretching shoulder rehab. Wednesdays geriatric ride 5 hours 47 minutes 83 miles wet, windy, cold and muddy.

[Mostly_Inanimate_Beans]

10. Finger rehab

[Wellsy]

9 - 30 mins yoga. Ached

10 - still ached from Monday a bit. Variety hangs. 3x 20 second hangs. Climbing drills, an hour of gentle recovery climbs

[slab_happy]

11.  Went to the donor centre and gave them some of my blood in exchange for a small packet of crisps. That's practically exercise, right?

Then an hour of very slow yoga.

[Fiend]

11 - 2 hours bramble clearance / involuntary forearm accupuncture (may also count as donating blood but I didn't get any crisps). 2 hours indoor bouldering, weak but feeling fairly energetic.

[rginns]

11 - 50 minutes walking from the garage to work

[James Malloch]

Day 10
2 hours of pram pushing for nap time
3km run to garage

Day 11
2 hours of pram pushing for nap time.
Going to count the pram time as it is meaning I’m not managing to fit much else in. It’s also knackering with all the hills!

[Duma]

1. No

2. 90 min bouldering

3. 30 min run

4. 2 hrs bouldering

5. 30 min (barely!) Core and rehab.

6. 90 min bouldering

7. 30 min run

8. 75 min bouldering

9. 120 min bouldering

10. 30 min run

11. 90 min bouldering

[dunnyg]

9. Walk 30 mins, finger rehab
10. Walk 30, finger rehab

2 lazy ISH days, but will make up for it in the next couple of weeks....

11. Finger rehab, 7 routes up to 6b in the sun (after a bit of rain based faff).

[northern yob]

Day 10

30mins zwift tempo

No snacks no booze(found a passable low alcohol beer… )

83.15kg

[monkoffunk]

2. Strength and conditioning. Bicep curls, squat/shoulder-press, bent row, single leg RDL with 6kg dumbbells. Plus push ups. Finished with 4x 10s body weight hangs on a flat jug. Zero pull ups this month. Yoga. Pronator teres rotations evening.
3. Brisk walking with toddler on shoulders and pram+baby. Yoga. Another simple weights session. Few easy exercises from Al Kavadlo’s pistol squat progression. Elbow PT exercises + pronator teres rotations.

Lots of snacks, no booze, but only two more days of Christmas left so snacks will be gone soon.

4. Yoga. Pronator teres rotations. Really wanted to go for run but couldn’t bring myself to go out in the pouring rain at 2100. Few more pistol squat progressions and hangs on flat edge instead.

5. Run. 31min 19sec, 5.07k. First since September! Probably wouldn’t have gone so far if not for Sharkathon. Pronator teres rotations, yoga.

6. Yoga. Pronator teres rotations. Weights session. DOMS kicking in from run so mostly upper body. Increased weight. Few more hangs. Right wrist slightly complaining at the elbow physio  . Old injury from way back.

Last day of eating crap! Christmas pudding after dinner. That’s it now, rest of the month will be on point.

7. Red Spider. Couple of hours running after two and three year old through the castle play thing. A few boulder problems for good measure! Bicep curls when home plus yoga evening.

8. Run. 29m 20s 5.08km. Beautiful sunshine and light snow. Physio. Very gentle wrist stuff. Yoga.
9. 30+mins of weights. Wrist physio included in warm up. Yoga.

10. First day back at work post baby. Yoga. Wrist physio and theraband. Body weight hangs on flat jug. Hanging core stuff. Body weight hangs on a crimp. Christmas weight vest coming in useful. Easy pistol progressions to take me up to 30 mins total.

11. 10 mins of yoga before work. 20 min run after the kids asleep.

[monkoffunk]

Day 10

30mins zwift tempo

No snacks no booze(found a passable low alcohol beer… )

83.15kg

Which one?

Have you seen this thread?

https://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,28598.0.html

[lukeyboy]

Parkrun with brother-in-law this morn, good start to the year. Cleared out the remaining Christmas leftovers from the fridge, though still going on the homemade mince pies, too good not to.

Aim to start a week's trial at the independent crossfit-style gym my wife goes to, in the next day or so, with the aim of working on the gaps left by climbing and running and just feeling stronger/healthier overall.

Day 2
30 min rainy walk to nursery and back in the morning.
5k run loop to/from the gym (first time in about 20 years) this eve, had a good 1h strength training session. Keen to get stuck in over the next few weeks and see some progress. Mostly used light weights and focused on technique.
Was quite restrained with food, though still working through sister-in-law's homemade Christmas cake.

Day 3 - very wet 1h walk school/nursery run. 1h30 indoor boulder session.

4. 1h walk school/nursery run. 5k run loop to/from gym, 1h strength session. Really enjoyed.

5. Just the 1h school/nursery walk today. And currently doing a bit of stretching.

6. 15 min jog to gym then a 1h beasting. Loved it. Went for a coffee after and managed to avoid the pastries.

7. 1.5h trail run (10ish miles) along the coast from Clevedon to Portishead whilst daughter at ballet. One of those where it fitted in perfectly and felt like a win.

8. The normal 1h walk school/nursery run this morning, then 5k run to/from 1h strength training at gym.

9. Just the 1h walk this morning, though we were late so I was storming along with a double buggy incl. 40kg of children, which got the HR up.

10. Same again today, just the school run. Wife's birthday so no chance of an evening outing!

11. 2 x school run (2h brisk walking) then 1.5h bouldering at Bloc this eve. Had a whale of a time.

[northern yob]

Day 10

30mins zwift tempo

No snacks no booze(found a passable low alcohol beer… )

83.15kg

Which one?

Have you seen this thread?

https://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,28598.0.html

Lucky saint hazy ipa…
I have seen that thread, the trouble is like real beer it’s such a personal thing. I tried the Guinness which was sold to me by JB as being no different…. He doesn’t drink much Guinness is what I think, not bad on taste but the texture is nowhere near(too watery). Lucky saint is either the best I’ve had, or I’m at my most desperate…. 0.5 % as discussed in the thread far superior to the zero stuff imho.

[nik at work]

11 - another non-stop day, stretching only again, bah!

[Duma]

No snacks no booze(found a passable low alcohol beer… )

Which one? Lucky Saint is the only worthwhile pretend beer I've ever found

[webbo]

11. 30 mins stretching and rehab exs. Walk 1 hour 25 minutes. Too tired from yesterdays ride to go on the board.

[monkoffunk]

Day 10

30mins zwift tempo

No snacks no booze(found a passable low alcohol beer… )

83.15kg

Which one?

Have you seen this thread?

https://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,28598.0.html

Lucky saint hazy ipa…
I have seen that thread, the trouble is like real beer it’s such a personal thing. I tried the Guinness which was sold to me by JB as being no different…. He doesn’t drink much Guinness is what I think, not bad on taste but the texture is nowhere near(too watery). Lucky saint is either the best I’ve had, or I’m at my most desperate…. 0.5 % as discussed in the thread far superior to the zero stuff imho.

Yeah, lucky saint is good, I like punk AF. I don’t drink any of the 0%s any more, 0.2-0.5% is a ripe banana anyhow.

If you haven’t tried, Clear Head from Bristol beer factory is good, and I quite like Citra IPA from big drop.

[Mostly_Inanimate_Beans]

11. Finger rehab, stretching, routes at the Foundry. Weighted pull ups and face pulls

[shark]

11. 40 mins walking with and without dogs. Lame

[Paul B]

I have seen that thread, the trouble is like real beer it’s such a personal thing. I tried the Guinness which was sold to me by JB as being no different…. He doesn’t drink much Guinness is what I think, not bad on taste but the texture is nowhere near(too watery). Lucky saint is either the best I’ve had, or I’m at my most desperate…. 0.5 % as discussed in the thread far superior to the zero stuff imho.

I'm pretty sure you're aware I'm not a big Guiness drinker but have you tried the pin trick as perhaps that might improve matters?

https://www.ladbible.com/community/viral-mans-can-of-guinness-hack-goes-viral-on-tiktok-20210505

https://www.joe.ie/life-style/mans-hack-guinness-can-viewed-millions-times-721256#:~:text=He%20recommends%20puncturing%20the%20can,impressive.

(brought to you by 'the Dull Men's Club' over on FB of which several UKBers are members  )

[Johnny Brown]

In my defence I didn't say 'no different' I said if you weren't paying attention (or were already drunk) you might not notice.

[slab_happy]

12. 20 mins walk, two and a half hours at the Works (but the first hour and a half was fairly ineffectual, trying new things and finding they hurt my elbow, before I got it together and spent the last hour more productively, repeating easier things I'd done before and not hurting my elbow), circa half hour strength training.