17-02-20
BW - 70.0
Workout
Some chins/scap pulls/serratus pushups etc to warm up
Deadhangs
HC@24mm
BW x 3s, 3s, 5s
HC@21mm
BW x 5s
HC@18mm
BW x 1s, 3s
HC@15mm
BW x 3s
Repeaters
HC@18mm
2 x 5 x (6 on / 3 off) -- Pretty close to failure on second set
Pinch block
5 x 5s
8 x 5s
10.5 x 5s
13 x 5s, 5s, 5s
Foot elevated pushbacks [https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLAD357FF6D01777E3&v=neypL5llLxY]
BW x 6, 6
Pushbacks
BW x 8, 8
Notes
This finger injury is so weird to me. I can (half) crimp basically near max with no pain, but open hand is excruciating. Anyway, feels like the open hand part is recovering along too, and it's nice to be still be able to train other things hard (seems the consensus is it is good to keep training other aspects of finger strength while this is recovering, as far as I can tell).
Pinch block fun as heck to train with. Don't really know what the gold standard is, but I guess getting to around 50% BW is a good goal, since that means you could hang off two of them without the benefit of compression, theoretically. (having looked this up, half bw is pretty elite, lmao -- yeah, elite climber Magnus Midbto, who weighs abt my weight, does ~41kg on this on the IronMind one [mine is grip genie -- idk which is easier/harder])
Pushbacks seem to really get my serratus going, and are pretty tough. Need to be doing more scapular strengthening stuff, esp for antagonist things like pushups, since that feels like a weakness and is potentially implicated in the shoulder pain I've been having.
Weight going up slowly -- not really bothered, think it is slow enough + I have been training (hard) enough that it probably means a decent amount of it is muscle. GF says I'm looking thicker so I'll take her word for it. Hoping to reap the benefits when I cut in 4-6 weeks.
Rest tmrw, climb Wednesday probably.