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Post by tradmike on Apr 14, 2015 9:22:07 GMT -7
Well somehow i was talked into doing a half marathon with a family member, and am now wondering how this will affect my climbing and training. I feel all the cardio will definatly help with weight loss and all but i'm also sure it will sap energy from my climbing efforts.
Has anyone trained for something like, this while also training for climbing at the same time i would be interested to hear you advice or how it went for you.
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Post by joev9 on Apr 14, 2015 9:51:13 GMT -7
It will negatively affect your climbing, no doubt. How much, depends. I run, some would say a lot. I trained for halfs and a full marathon and climbed in the past and, though you can get skinny, you will also get tired. Be careful though, as you can easily eat more than you burn from running. I would use a calorie counting app (I use myfitnesspal.com) to track your input and output and keep the in and out nearly equal. I recall having many pig outs where I set back a lot more calories than I ran off...
With a half you will want to get up to 10 or 12 mile long runs (to complete it) or 14 to 16 mile runs (to be competitive). Forget climbing on those days as you will be wrecked.
I have cut my running down to 20 or 30 miles per week, down from 50s and 60s and my climbing has improved greatly. I enjoy running, so I can't see myself stopping but being more reasonable about my mileage has helped me climb better.
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Post by ericg on Apr 14, 2015 10:20:26 GMT -7
I have run a few half marathons and i think you can do them without to much hindrance to your climbing. I actual have had some of my best seasons by running a half marathon at the beginning of my PE training. This is because I struggle with bodyweight and always lost weight training for halfs.
I would do two shorter runs (3-6 miles) or some speed training during the week and found them not to have a noticeable negative influence on my training. What did was a longer run I would do every weekend. My solution was to do this the day after I had a climbing training session and take 2 "rest days" where the first rest day is the long run. The next work out would occasionally suffer but not horribly. I find I can hangboard and get long runs in without a noticeable impact on my results. However, when you start training for power my bouldering did take a hit from the long run and same when training PE. So I would try to get a really good max power bouldering session in the day before the long run when training power.
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