Post by johnybinwv on Oct 27, 2016 8:07:47 GMT -7
Hello,
I have a question about Arc Training and its effects on the body. I find that more than all others forms of training discussed in the book, except for power endurance training, ARC makes me tired! All over, glycogen-depleted, need to sleep a long time that night tired. I usually end up feeling about the same as if I had gone and done 5-7 pitches of outdoor trad climbing, splitting leads with a partner.
I believe that in part this is because of all the resting and the relatively high involvement of the legs, hips, core, arms, and back in this form of climbing. I usually ARC on vertical terrain at a climbing gym, traversing and and up and down climbing across the wall. I also sometimes ARC outdoors on routes by up and down climbing at around the 5.8 to 5.9 difficulty level but this is less common due to the need to find a partner willing to train that way (this is really effective if you need to work on a particular skill, like crack climbing, and can find a moderately difficult crack that permits up and down climbing).
My question is: Do other climbers feel this worked all over feeling from ARCing? I haven't completed a full ARC routine in about a year, so maybe I'm still just building up my conditioning for it? I feel like the intensity I am ARCing at is appropriate. I try to not get pumped out of my gourd and try to alternate little difficult sections with easier sections and resting.
Maybe one reason that I feel 'worked-all-over' is because of the on-the-wall resting involved in ARC training? This often involves taking as much weight off my grip as possible and giving it to my legs or trying to distribute it away from my grip somehow (karate chop rests/waiter rests/knee bars/hanging low on a hold with frog legs).
Addendum question which I probably should move to its own post: Because of the fatigue, I find it difficult/potentially injurious to complete supplemental exercises in association with ARCing. Other people's experience with this?
I do think ARCing will be useful for me in the long run as I have goals of doing long alpine rock routes and enjoy trad onsighting about as much as any form of climbing.
I have a question about Arc Training and its effects on the body. I find that more than all others forms of training discussed in the book, except for power endurance training, ARC makes me tired! All over, glycogen-depleted, need to sleep a long time that night tired. I usually end up feeling about the same as if I had gone and done 5-7 pitches of outdoor trad climbing, splitting leads with a partner.
I believe that in part this is because of all the resting and the relatively high involvement of the legs, hips, core, arms, and back in this form of climbing. I usually ARC on vertical terrain at a climbing gym, traversing and and up and down climbing across the wall. I also sometimes ARC outdoors on routes by up and down climbing at around the 5.8 to 5.9 difficulty level but this is less common due to the need to find a partner willing to train that way (this is really effective if you need to work on a particular skill, like crack climbing, and can find a moderately difficult crack that permits up and down climbing).
My question is: Do other climbers feel this worked all over feeling from ARCing? I haven't completed a full ARC routine in about a year, so maybe I'm still just building up my conditioning for it? I feel like the intensity I am ARCing at is appropriate. I try to not get pumped out of my gourd and try to alternate little difficult sections with easier sections and resting.
Maybe one reason that I feel 'worked-all-over' is because of the on-the-wall resting involved in ARC training? This often involves taking as much weight off my grip as possible and giving it to my legs or trying to distribute it away from my grip somehow (karate chop rests/waiter rests/knee bars/hanging low on a hold with frog legs).
Addendum question which I probably should move to its own post: Because of the fatigue, I find it difficult/potentially injurious to complete supplemental exercises in association with ARCing. Other people's experience with this?
I do think ARCing will be useful for me in the long run as I have goals of doing long alpine rock routes and enjoy trad onsighting about as much as any form of climbing.
