questions about PE

[tradmike]

Did my first Power endurance session today doing the linked bouldering.

Some things that i noticed, Like heelhook i believe it was?  i did not feel a massive pump after completing a set using a 1/2 duty cylcle also felt like it prepared me for the next set.

I did a cirquit of climb up a v3 down a v2 up a v0 then down a v1.  I'm thinking that i need to add some harder problems to make this more difficult.  The only problem is that the problems i can do in the gym are not all close together that i can link them.

Could i in a circuit climb up and down the same problem or so say up a v3, down a v2 up the same v2 then down a v1

Want to get the most out of this and it seemed like i could not find a good circuit of problems to link together, and the ones i could find were not quite hard enough possibly.

[MarkAnderson]

Ya, your circuit definitely sounds too easy. You can definitely climb up and down the same problem. Also, you can build your own problems using the holds that are already on the wall. For example, you maybe be able to make the V0 into a V2 by skipping a hold and/or swapping out another. Or you can make a V4 into a V2 by adding some footholds or something. Be creative.

If that doesn't work, it's not the end of the world if you have to step off the wall and walk a few steps to get to the start of another problem that better suits your goals. That's the way we used to do it in the old days....

[sebastian]

When doing a route interval routine it references a that it has to be done 2-8 Laps, just for clarification you are referring to a Lap as only go up the route or also down climbing?

[MarkAnderson]

That would depend on the route. The driving factor is the number of hand movements. If the route is quite short, it may be helpful to down-climb to reach the appropriate number of moves. However, assuming you have a good selection of routes, it would be best to select a route that has a satisfactory number of moves without resorting to down-climbing, since up-climbing is more specific.