Campusing with added weight

[erk]

I'd like to try adding weight to my campus routine to help with the following problems:

-Improving max ladder from 1-4-6 to 1-4-6.5
-Increasing intensity of double dynos

Thoughts:
I have been struggling to advance my max ladder (it's been the same for 3 cycles). My goal is to do a 1-4-6 with as much weight I can add then attempt to improve my max ladder with no added weight.

As for the double dynos, I have reached the point where I am doing about 8 reps on medium rungs (M1-M3-M2-M4...) and about 6 reps on the small rungs (M1-M2-M3....). I feel like I would be getting more out of the double dynos if I were failing after 2-3 reps.

Has anyone played with this? Thoughts?

[MarkAnderson]

I've never campused with weight on. I don't think it would be very good for your (in order of not-good-ness) elbows, fingers, shoulders, knees, ankles.

Also, generally I think the more sport-specific technique a given exercise requires, the more it makes sense to do the activity at (as close to possible to) performance weight. In campusing you're trying to teach yourself several techniques, including how to measure the distance to a hold, how to determine the correct pulling force to produce just enough energy to deadpoint to the hold, the hand-eye coordination to hit the target perfectly, and so on. I would guess adding weight confuses all those processes.

Instead, I would suggest trying some exotic Max Ladders that train the 2nd move, such as 1-2-4.5, and then 1-2.5-5, then 1-3-5.5 and so on. You could also do some 1-arm negatives if you think that is a factor, or some triceps push downs to train the movement of using your low hand to assist.

[joev9]

Those who play with fire, usually get burnt...

I wouldn't add weight to my campus routine under any circumstances, but I'm old and really don't want to get hurt campusing. The way I look at it, is that the purpose of campusing is to improve at climbing not at campusing. If your climbing is improving, then whatever you are doing is working (whether your campus Max has increased or not).

[Chris W]

I'm with Joe. I'm only 33, but just the thought of campusing with weight makes my elbows hurt.

[scojo]

I remember Will Anglin talking about campusing with weight on a training beta (https://www.trainingbeta.com/media/will-anglin/). He was running into a problem - he could reach so far on the campus board that the resulting awkward positions were starting to hurt his shoulders. He added weight so that his reach length limit was shorter, and he could train with max intensity without getting injured.

You probably don't have this specific problem though.