Post by Mike Anderson on Jul 21, 2014 5:09:00 GMT -7
This question is from Abby via email:
We both absolutely love to get outside nearly every weekend, and although we are focusing on sport climbing for this fall, we love to spend our weekends in July and August in the mountains doing longer, easier trad climbing. My question is this - in the strength phase, we understand that it is best to have a 2-day rest between the hangboard workouts. However, would it be detrimental if we climbed easy trad both days on the weekends even if that means we would do a hangboard workout on Saturday or Sunday evenings in order to stay with our schedule? We are fully committed to following the program, so if it means we don't get outside both days, that is fine. I do understand that the hangboard routine is best done rested and with solid focus. I guess I'm just curious what you two think about doing easier trad climbing (to mix it up a bit) during this phase.
Abby
We both absolutely love to get outside nearly every weekend, and although we are focusing on sport climbing for this fall, we love to spend our weekends in July and August in the mountains doing longer, easier trad climbing. My question is this - in the strength phase, we understand that it is best to have a 2-day rest between the hangboard workouts. However, would it be detrimental if we climbed easy trad both days on the weekends even if that means we would do a hangboard workout on Saturday or Sunday evenings in order to stay with our schedule? We are fully committed to following the program, so if it means we don't get outside both days, that is fine. I do understand that the hangboard routine is best done rested and with solid focus. I guess I'm just curious what you two think about doing easier trad climbing (to mix it up a bit) during this phase.
Abby