I keep toying with the idea of doing some deadlifts but I already weigh in at very close to 14 stone. I don't have much fat about me and I worry that putting on any extra weight will end up being a negative on my climbing.Any thoughts? Any way to get stronger without putting on the weight?
I don't think my core is particularly weak but it could certainly be stronger. I'm 6'2" and I can nearly do a front lever which I know is a fair irrelevant exercise in the grand scheme of climbing but its shows a decent level of core strength. My biggest issue is that the guy that sets a lot of the problems at the wall I climb at hates tall people and loves to put stupid cramped compression moves on overhangs and I can't get my damn body in there.I basically want to make my core and back stronger which I assume some lifts will accomplish better than almost anything else.
Quote from: mctrials23 on December 23, 2014, 09:55:05 amI don't think my core is particularly weak but it could certainly be stronger. I'm 6'2" and I can nearly do a front lever which I know is a fair irrelevant exercise in the grand scheme of climbing but its shows a decent level of core strength. My biggest issue is that the guy that sets a lot of the problems at the wall I climb at hates tall people and loves to put stupid cramped compression moves on overhangs and I can't get my damn body in there.I basically want to make my core and back stronger which I assume some lifts will accomplish better than almost anything else.i would just tell him sort his shit problems out and not to take it out on normal sized people just because he is inferior.problems set for pixies are never going to be nice for everyone else
My general view on deadlifting for climbing:
I reckon 2 X bodyweight is a great target but past that don't bother, you're time is much better spent on the core muscles in the mid section and hips (can you do a front lever? If not then time on that sort of core exercise is much better spent!)
a strong core is essential for lanking past stumpy sequences