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Climbing, weight and a complicated relationship with both

Started 12 August 2024 · 24 replies · 295 hearts · read 4.8k times

PolaGdańsk, PL · 12 August 2024
1.9 years ago

Climbing, weight and a complicated relationship with both — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

Anyone else navigating this? I feel as though every piece of advice I read was written for someone with a completely different week.

I have tried three arrangements and none of them has survived a difficult week, which suggests I am designing for good weeks.

Every piece of advice I read appears to have been written for somebody with a completely different week from mine, so I am asking people whose weeks look like this.

Sorry for the length. The logistics take longer to describe than they do to do.

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HarriSwansea, UK
#1

What I found is that the first six weeks were the worst for performance and that everything after that has been ordinary.

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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#2

Two things, both boring. Nobody here can tell you what to do about your week. And describing your own week is genuinely useful to somebody planning theirs.

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RinManchester, UK
#3

Pola, answering your question directly rather than going round the houses.

Somebody in this circle said that grip strength is the most honest measure and I have tracked mine ever since.

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BronLincoln, UK
#4

The thing I underestimated was hydration. My requirements changed and I noticed it in the gym before anywhere else.

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PamSouthport, UK
#5

Picking up Ren’s point rather than starting a new one.

The advice I got that helped most was to prioritise consistency over intensity for the first three months, and it was correct.

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BodilÅlesund, NO
#6

My coach and my prescriber have never spoken and I have relayed everything, and I would do that differently if I started again.

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BaySt Ives, UK
#7

Nothing useful, just that I have been exactly here.

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ClémenceNantes, FR
#8

Something practical: I have a shake ready for after training because on a low-appetite day I will not eat and I will drink.

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RonanBelfast, NI
#9

What I would say to anybody starting is do not stop lifting. That is the one thing everybody here agrees on.

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NolanHalifax, CA
#10

Nothing here is coaching or medical advice, and the fuelling side in particular is worth a proper conversation with a sports dietitian.

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RufusGuildford, UK
#11

I would gently say that if training has become the thing you use to justify eating, that is worth saying out loud somewhere.

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OndineLausanne, CH
#12

Picking up Nolan’s point rather than starting a new one.

My experience is that this is entirely compatible with serious training and requires deliberate attention to fuelling.

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RunaAarhus, DK
#13

What surprised me was how much better my joints felt, which had nothing to do with anything I was aiming at.

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BramGhent, BE
#14

Saying it out loud helps other people say it too. Thank you.

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BoWhitby, UK
#15

My rest days matter more than they used to and I have stopped treating them as optional.

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TressaSt Austell, UK
#16

I keep a very simple training log alongside everything else and the two together tell me more than either does alone.

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BertrandToulouse, FR
#17

Reading Tressa, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

Coming back at two years to say the strength held, the training is unchanged, and the fuelling took a season to get right and then became automatic.

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MaryamBirmingham, UK
#18

Keeping what I had built was the whole of my concern and it turned out to be almost entirely about protein and lifting, in that order.

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LenaMunich, DE
#19

My training did not change. My fuelling around it changed enormously and that took about four months to get right.

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MaritGroningen, NL
#20

What I found is that eating enough before a session was the hard part, and everything else followed from solving it.

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TacitaRome, IT
#21

I kept lifting three times a week throughout and my numbers dipped for about six weeks and then came back.

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EdwynNewcastle, UK
#22

Something practical: I moved my training to the morning because my appetite is more reliable earlier and the fuelling became simple.

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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#23

I want to say that a genuinely new practical idea is rarer than it sounds after two years of these threads. If you have an arrangement nobody has mentioned, it is worth the post even if it seems obvious to you.

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RohanPune, IN
#24

Edwyn has already said most of this and I want to add the one part that was different for me.

The endurance side was different again. Long sessions needed planning that short sessions did not, and I got that wrong twice.

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