Training and things

Nick Brown said to me 'Oi Will, if your blog was more about climbing and training than your life, as intensely interesting and engaging as it is, then I'd probably put it on my site'. That got me thinking. Fame. Power. Women. Hmm. Yes, I shall make my blog about my training for Hueco (my upcoming bouldering trip). Please read -

Tonight I'm going to do some weighted chin ups, press ups and core training in order to strengthen my large muscle groups and so get as strong and vascular as Grant Bateman. My god. He's an example of a man. Once he told me a story about this guy who was walking along Chesham's Berkhamsted Road, opposite Mighty Bite, when suddenly a man popped out from nowhere and tried to 'start something'. The guy (Len) immediately faced his enemy and prepared for an engagement. The man (who happened to be of Asian decent, I mean like from Pakistan or Indian rather than Asian in the sense of Orientals, I've made that mistake a lot on US porn websites) some how secreted an empty Pot Noodle cup and used it as a horn. BOOOORRRRRRR. Len looked at the guy with a surprised look (Grant didn't tell me that part, I'm assuming) and was soon faced with loads of other Asian men, some of whom were coming out of dust bins and things (I'm sure Grant told me this part). Then Len ran off, or got beaten up. Probably the later. Hmm. I thought I remembered that story better than I actually did. Still, you get the general gist. I was more struck by the Pot Noodle horn, I wondered exactly how the chap managed to turn it into a horn. Perhaps I'll try tonight.

It's time to go home now so I'll finish it later.

I have just remembered that I was going to return to continue writing this blog thing. After arriving at home I didn't try to make a pot noodle horn (didn't have any at home), in fact by that time I had forgotten that I was going to do that. I can't actually remember what I did that night. I think I went climbing. Hmm. I went training last night. I was going to do a big beastmaker repeater encore/1 arm hang sess. But I tired myself out warming up because there was a pretty girl there so I went into show off mode and got tired. I rested for a bit and then started the one armed hangs on the medium campus rangs. Then by arm really hurt (apparently from over training). Because both arms hurt by that point, I generally just dossed around, doing the occasional repeater and one armed hang. Jen Wilby told me that I should go home but I thought that would be admitting defeat. Then Keiran came over and we started doing feats of strength on the beastmaker. I can now do 3 mono chin ups using my middle fingers, 10 second hangs on the 45 degree slopers and 7 second half crimp hangs with my left arm on a medium campus rung (with 3.25 kg assistance). My right arm was shot to pieces due to one armed chin ups and general fatigue. It's a bit weird how my right fingers are weaker than my left since I'm right handed. I think I need to rest for a bit in order for my arm fatigue to subside and also start training arm power and also deep locks. Also, I've started doing repeaters while holding a 5kg weight between my feet. Pure core AND arms.