Post by tiago on Nov 22, 2014 11:16:07 GMT -7
Hi,
Over the years I was "forced" to do some base fitness workouts along with climbing, in order to stay injury-free. Actually, because of my elbows (golfer's elbow on both arms) I had to work out on a gym and gain some muscle. Eventually I started to attend some Body-Pump classes (I wasn't training that much at the time) and the results were incredible! I've been frequenting these classes for one month in a row, every four months or so, and by the 3rd/4th week I have a peak of form. This has proven to be true over the last three years.
My question to Mark and Mike is, as I am following the RockProdigy method, in which phase could I fit this workout, if I can fit it at all? For those who don't know, Body-Pump classes are a 50 minute routine where you train all the major muscles through a huge set (or 2 or 3 sets with almost no rest between them) with a great ammount of repetitions per set. As a result, each muscular group works for about 4-6 minutes. In total it's over seven hundred repetitions in less than one hour. The weights are relatively small (they have to be!) but, from the middle of the exercise on until the end, it hurts as hell.
I used to do this 2 times per week. As my experience with this is I send all my projects after the 3rd-4th week of BP routine, I'd say that the ideal phase to fit in this routine would be the Power-Endurance phase, because it's just before the performance phase. However, I'd like to know your opinion if the RockProdigy training will suffer from these added workouts. I intend to climb outside on PE routes both days of the weekend and train PE indoor on wednesdays. So the body-pump routine could fit on mondays (or tuesdays) and thursdays.
What do you guys think?
Cheers,
Tiago
Over the years I was "forced" to do some base fitness workouts along with climbing, in order to stay injury-free. Actually, because of my elbows (golfer's elbow on both arms) I had to work out on a gym and gain some muscle. Eventually I started to attend some Body-Pump classes (I wasn't training that much at the time) and the results were incredible! I've been frequenting these classes for one month in a row, every four months or so, and by the 3rd/4th week I have a peak of form. This has proven to be true over the last three years.
My question to Mark and Mike is, as I am following the RockProdigy method, in which phase could I fit this workout, if I can fit it at all? For those who don't know, Body-Pump classes are a 50 minute routine where you train all the major muscles through a huge set (or 2 or 3 sets with almost no rest between them) with a great ammount of repetitions per set. As a result, each muscular group works for about 4-6 minutes. In total it's over seven hundred repetitions in less than one hour. The weights are relatively small (they have to be!) but, from the middle of the exercise on until the end, it hurts as hell.
I used to do this 2 times per week. As my experience with this is I send all my projects after the 3rd-4th week of BP routine, I'd say that the ideal phase to fit in this routine would be the Power-Endurance phase, because it's just before the performance phase. However, I'd like to know your opinion if the RockProdigy training will suffer from these added workouts. I intend to climb outside on PE routes both days of the weekend and train PE indoor on wednesdays. So the body-pump routine could fit on mondays (or tuesdays) and thursdays.
What do you guys think?
Cheers,
Tiago