[Nutty]

18 - Stretching and bodyweight exercises. Achilles and shoulder exercises.
19 - Stretching and bodyweight exercises. Achilles and shoulder exercises.
20 - 30 mins stretching.
21 - garden board session. First time on the board this year as I'd been avoiding it due to shoulder niggle. Was predictably rubbish on it, but good to be back on it.
22 - Stretching and bodyweight exercises. Achilles and shoulder exercises.
23 - 4km run, 90 mins at the climbing wall, 4km run home.

Ok week. Pushed for time on a few days due to work.

[Fiend]

24 - 1.5 hours gym with all the usual rehab / conditioning bollox. Didn't feel sick this time so tried to catch up planks, 1 x 2 mins then 1 x 1:30 mins. Not sure what happened there but I expect I'll be put in detention. 


(Despite feeling on physically okay form, I didn't feel that motivated, but most of the rehaby stuff went well - except hamstring curls which felt very tender on the left back of my knee, just behind the LCL injury I think. I suspect it might be a hamstring attachment point?? Not sure why but it's getting worse on the hamstring curl machine. Normally I do ~140 pounds with both legs, for LCL rehab I'm doing it single legged and dropped it down to 30 lb working up to 45 lb - but now anything above 30 feels sore, unlike quad raises or leg presses  which I'm doing a similar single leg /.much reduced weight protocol with....)

[battery]

1 hour walk, half of which was carrying toddler and bike (I will never moan about pushing him up the hills again). 2 x 1min plank and a load of pressups on the second to last step of the stairs.

[Wellsy]

Yesterday was in a stroppy mood so did a lot of volume and then OHP, Bench, biceps.

Today did core

Tomorrow may just stretch, lock-offs,fingerboard and pulls Wednesday. Training ramping up a bit.

[Duma]

24 - 2 x 1:40 plank. press ups, pull ups, squats. Back bridges for hamstring. Aeropow repeaters on fingerboard. Really bored of isolation.

71.1

[webbo]

24th. 30 mins stretching board 1 hr 10 mins. Feeling a bit weary.

[lagerstarfish]

Day 24

40 mins surfskating - back and hips were unusually stiff so frontside turns were an issue - tried to compensate by getting lower with knees - I forgot that I wasn't wearing knee pads and casually touched my right knee to the tarmac at speed - no damage done - I found this hilarious and sat on the kerb laughing

[Yossarian]

I was doing so well with Sharkathon, but then daughter got ill (with what turned out to be covid, but completely different symptoms) the w/e of 15/16 and, with a new job that started last Monday, I got completely distracted and didn't resume until Sat.

Bravo to everyone who has continued to stay strong throughout!

[Fiend]

Day 25

45 mins / 1.8 miles kneehab walk. Some IYTs. 2 x 2 mins superman planks, alternating sides every 20s 

(Knee tender today, as expected, after the gym. Hence just a fucking plodding walk. Slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww progress. Slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww)

[Duma]

25 - 2 x 1:50 plank. press ups, pull ups, squats. Back bridges for hamstring. Few sun prayers. Really bored of isolation.

70.9

[webbo]

25th. 30 mins stretching, 40 mins turbo and then dragged out by the missus to spend 45 mins clearing up and bagging leaves.

[lagerstarfish]

Day 25

Dry roads again, so did a bit of local surfskate.
This went well, so I headed to Millhouses park - two full laps of the park, slow on the wet bits, lost the back end on wet leaves a couple of times. Good session in the skate park. No kids on the mini pump track, do ended up playing on that for a while. Very happy.
Got home to find that a new deck had arrived (Soulboardy Adam XL). Psyched!
Swapped the lads trucks onto my new deck and headed out for a test drive. Lots of fun.
Ended up going out for more after tea.
Legs like jelly.
Probably two hours total riding time.
Tomorrow's cycle commute is going to be slow.

[SA Chris]

18th - not much, 3 x 5 min walks, about 10 mins with theraband and a bit of stretching. The rest - packing and filling out forms / admin. Expect today will be similar - travelling. All change from tomorrow......

19th - travelling. Did about 10000 steps just walking through Schipol airport. I actually made a point of walking around the terminal rather than sitting on my arse.
20th - ski Les Gets / Morzine with bro. Late start but got some good mileage in. Clouded in later, poor viz up top.
21st - ski Les Gets / Morzine with mates. more mileage.
22nd - Ski Avoriaz. a bit windy
23rd - Ski Grand Massif. Nearly caught on the wrong side of mountain by early closing lift, but managed do beg / bully our way on.
24th - ski tour up to Mt Chery from Mt Caly in morning. Snow shit, but good fun. Blast on skis on Mt Chery in afternoon.
25th - Snowboard blast about Les Gets for the morning before drive to airport. About 10000 steps walking around Schiphol.

Blue skies most of the trip. No fresh snow, but I guess the next best thing. Don't ask if I stayed dry! Great trip, testing and forms are a hassle, but not that bad, and great to be back after 2 years.

[SA Chris]

and in spite of eating like a horse I seem to have shifted a few pounds too.

[Duma]

26 - 2 x 1:50 plank. Press ups, pull ups, squats. Back bridges for hamstring. Ancap repeaters on fingerboard. Really bored of isolation.

71.1

[AJM]

Sharkathon Goals:
- Exercise every day, obviously
- Stretching every non climbing day
- Lots of push exercises to work on my lack of pushing ability.

21/12 - circa 3 mile walk, carrying child for half the time
22/12 - Fairlop boulders with Duncan
23/12 - about 55 pushups and 25 pull-ups on the edges on my portable fingerboard
24/12 - circa 1.5 mile walk carrying child, plus another 50 pushups or so
25/12 - short stretching session and hangs on the portable fingerboard
26/12 - more stretching, about 70 pushups
27/12 - about 20 dips in sets of 4 (I am weak at pushing!), plus good stretching session
28/12 - climbing at The Dug Out with Ally and Ross. A day of learning and being reminded of weaknesses!
29/12 - 30-40min walk carrying child
30/12 - stretching
31/12 - 10km walk pushing pram. Set a pocket circuit on the home board.

1/1 - promised afternoon sunshine never arrived, so it was low cloud, damp wind and high humidity at the New Cuttings. Spent some time working the project nevertheless, think I worked out some helpful microbeta.
2/1 - 30 mins park walk/jog with children; 25 dips in sets of 6-7; stretching
3/1 - family wall trip. Moderate amount of stuff done, bit of time on a fun project, one to come back to. Then later on some stretching and pushups.
4/1 - bit achey, back to work, quieter day: stretching and compression
5/1 - wall session. Ticked pocketed project from the 3rd. Finger a bit grumbly when crimping.
6/1 - 30 min walk and 20 dips around school drop off. In the evening, a short session of stretching and a few sets of pushups.
7/1 - attempts at shoulder shrugs in various permutations, then aerocap on the board.
8/1 - light wall session, focused on some different angles etc, nothing too hard
9/1 - outdoor bouldering, Portland
10/1 - stretching
11/1 - unstructured stretching plus 3 sets each of shoulder press and squat with 26kg
12/1 - indoor wall
13/1 - decent session of pushing and stretching in the evening
14/1 - some squats, some side raises, some stretching
15/1 - board aerocap, then 11km pram pushing.
16/1 - stretching/compression
17/1 - pushups, pseudo planche leans, assisted shoulder shrugs, a few tuck front lever holds
18/1 - mono pickups
19/1 - feeling grotty. Gentle stretching and more mono pickups, gentler session though

20/1 - more grot. More gentle stretching
21/1 - worse grot. I need a bye for this one.
22/1 - slightly less grot. A short walk
23/1 - maybe an hour-ish of pram pushing.
24/1 - board aerocap
25/1 - assisted shoulder engages, tuck planche attempts, weighted pull-ups and chin ups, and so on

Soldiered on through some of last week but grot overcame me at the end. If I can exercise every healthy day that’ll still be a good Sharkathon…

[Duma]

If I can exercise every healthy day that’ll still be a good Sharkathon…

That's what I'm going for now...

[Fiend]

26 - 30 mins / 1.6 miles kneehab walk. 50 mins haphazard indoor bumbling on V1-3s. Dismal. Would barely be a warm-up for an HVS climber. Some IYTs and shoulder stretches 

[webbo]

26th. 30 mins stretching. Board 1hr 10 mins struggling a fair bit.

[lagerstarfish]

Day 26

40 mins cycle commute

Walked 10km

3 sets of 4 pull-ups - shoulder, elbows and fingers hurt too much to contemplate more.

[shark]

Apart from a travel day done at least 30 mins exercise each day. No booze either. Think I’ve lost some weight too. 😇

[Wellsy]

3x 10 seconds at 90 degrees lockoff with 31kgs added, 3x 10 seconds at 120 degrees, same

3x 5 pullups, 20kgs added

Bit of core

[SA Chris]

26th - half hour walk, bloody cold. Some theraband while in a teams call (bonus of keeping me awake) and some kettlebells while watching TV

[Duma]

27 - FREEDOM! 2 x 1:50 plank. Indoor routes 2 hrs.

71.6

[lagerstarfish]

Day 27

35 mins cycle commute

walk 10km

40 mins surfskate with the lad - I seem to have hit a point where my technique and physical ability mean I can get lost in the movement without getting tired for what seems like ages - feels amazing - never looks as good as it feels on video