Power Club 2024 retrospective

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Duma

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Screw those soul climbers over on the best of 2024 thread, let's have some number crunching!

Here's mine, feel free to create your own categories as suits though!

Exercise sessions
227

Non climbing
50 (29/21 running/other)

Climbing
177
Indoor
120 (109/11 bouldering/routes)
Bouldering includes a total of 3 (three) board sessions
Outdoor
57 (28/29 bouldering/routes)

No fingerboarding
No weights

Grades
7C x 3. Two off my best and all were soft. Happy to get a few though as my last was in 2020
8a x 4. One off my best and two were soft. Still the most I've managed at this level in a year.

Fairly pleased with that. Be nice to get to 260 this year for 5 days a week average, 12 HR shifts make it tricky though.
 
I’m not very good at keeping a log of my activity, but this is probably a reasonable summary of the non-soul-climber high/low lights… (numbers only, cos nothing else matters right?)

Hardest Sport Route rp
7c

Hardest Sport Route o/s
7b

Hardest Boulder Problem
7B

Hardest Boulder Problem Flash
7A

No trad

Gym Feats
Middle BM rung:
right 10s @ +10kg
left 20s @ +6kg

Sessions climbing:
Significantly more than previous few years

A good year, got properly back in to climbing. Fingers seem to still be reasonably ok, and no particular signs of swelling or stiffness. Rest of body has definitely got less dynamic. Flexibility continues to decline…
Lots of nearly did its so hopefully 2025 can get things a notch or two higher.

The weather… sort it out
 
Hardest RP. 7a in 2 tie ins / one session.
Hardest Onsight. 6c
Total climbs. 53
Total crag days. 18
Total operations. 2
Weeks lost to operations. 16
 
rough final entry oldfella! had you tried much for more than a session? surprisingly quick for your hardest RP.

Nik, I'm attempting to reconcile your bouldering with those beastmaker numbers and failing!
 
Hardest boulder of 2024: 7A+ really

Best lift: Probably a 125kgs squat or a 50kg weighted pullup or 75kg edge pick-up on the right hand/72.5kgs on the left

Ideally would like to add to all these in 2025!
 
Nik, I'm attempting to reconcile your bouldering with those beastmaker numbers and failing!
There’s more to climbing than fingers??
I’d say a combination of most of the rest of me being in a state of failure and only trying things that other people wanted to climb, which were either:
Not suited to me
Too hard for me
7B or below

Crap excuses but I’m sticking to them :)
 
Thus is a good idea, but other than my Strava stats i haven't got the level of activity recording down to be of any use.
 
Here we go...
- 366 sessions;
- 63 climbing, all on my board;
- 4 months off climbing due to finger injury;
- the rest split between weights (mostly) and boxing bag.
Grades: impossible to tell until someone comes over and repeats my problems.
Highlights: setting new PB for deadlift and trap bar deadlift; finally joining a boxing gym in december.
 
Cheers Duma! To be honest, I should have written "366 days on", because I did quite a few double session days, with the usual mini AM session and then another one in the evening. Anyway...
Wellsy, I did nothing special in terms of pure weight: 145 kg regular and 150 with the trap bar, but the important thing was that I hadn't deadlifted with a training plan in ages, and to set a PB at 52 was very cool.
Now I only deadlift for "hypertrophy", with higher volume, and much lower weight, but that's the general focus.
 
I don’t contribute to Power Club but do keep a handwritten training diary and like the idea of totting up what I’ve done over the year, so here goes.

3 months lost to injury (broken collar bone). In the first 9 months of the year I managed …

61 wall sessions.

51 fingerboard sessions.

28 days route climbing. Nearly all trad, but a few days DWS. Only one day sport climbing. Managed 49 routes up to E5.

5 days bouldering. Managed 16 problems up to 7A+.

26 days on the MTB, including the session I bust my shoulder.

Would be nice to get outside more instead of the wall and fingerboard, but perhaps not surprising for a middle aged dad with 3 kids and a full time job?
 

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