Santa must be a climber. He gave us a wonderful gift. The new training book called, Gimme Kraft. The perfect gift for a climber during winter. We cracked open the book this weekend and did our first training day. Whew, I am sore!
I've briefly described the first exercise below...in case you wanted to feel our pain or try it out yourself ;) I highly suggest you pick up a copy of Gimme Kraft for additional training tips and exercises.
Warm up!
We started with 10 minutes of rowing and then jumped into three training exercises at the bouldering gym.
1. Kontrast
- Pick 8 boulder problems
- Climb the first boulder problem completely static
- Rest for two minutes
- Climb the same boulder problem as dynamic as you can
- Rest for two minutes
- Climb the same boulder problem for a third time, the best way between the two (static and dynamic)
- Repeat for boulders problem 2-8
By the end of Kontrast we had climbed 24 bouldering problems.
2. Speed
- Select a number of boulder problems
- Time how long it takes climb all of them, include rest times
- How many rounds can you do? Can you improve your time?
Woohoo! I could barely even cheer after completing exercise 1 and 2..and yes, there is a third!
3. Tic Tac Toe
- On a systems board fish for holds with your foot at varying heights
Tic Tac Toe works on your core and precision. This was actually more challenging then I originally thought! This would be great a both a warm up or warm down.
Warm Down!
We wrapped up our training day with some good stretching and a few yoga poses. What a great day!
Check out the trailer for Gimme Kraft here! Both the trailer and the book features Sasha DiGiulian and other professional climbers. I am so stoked to gain power! You can probably guess what my new year resolution is ;)
Happy climbing guys!
