VE:) >>>>>>>>>>>

Went climbing at VE and had a pretty good night. I worked on my foot placement, hip into the wall, balance and felt good about my climbing form. Did the 5.8+ roof climb and felt strong on surmounting the roof. Next week I plan on doing the 5.10a roof climb. Tom and I finished the night climbing in the Natural area of the gym, I nailed a 5.10b on sight and felt my climbing form was spot on. One of my goals at the gym is to do at least one roof climb per visit. Roofs have always been difficult for me, so therefore do more roofs and overhangs.

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Red Wing Sport Lead.....

Went sport lead climbing with Tom and Jim. Unfortunately today was my day for falling, I'm greatful for my climbing partners belaying skills. I fell quite a ways on Rock-A-Holics 5.8 and decided not to try it again as I was a little shook up. I then had a short fall on Jenna's Face 5.8, on this one however I got back on the wall and completed the climb. Also climbed Sunburst 5.7-, Cinq Jour D'Afille 5.7, Goofed on Skunkweed 5.8-, Living Postmortems 5.8-. I believe my problem is my feet, I have to pay more attention to my feet placement as I have noticed as I climb above my anchor my focus has been more on the next clip and my hands, kinda tunnel vision. The good thing is the falling was done in good form, feet into the wall...Ha ! Ha! Ha! I plan on practicing more sport lead in the gym and concentrate on feet placement, form and balance. Hopefully it will carry over to outdoor sport lead.

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Gym Climbing

Went climbing tonight at VE, I had a pretty good night climbing. I climbed a 5.11a on the second try completely without a take. I'm pretty happy about starting to be able to climb in the 5.11's good hard work is finally paying off. Setting goals is really important, I'm several months ahead of my goal for climbing 5.11. The satisfaction of attaining goals and resetting goals is very rewarding. I'm going to keep working hard climbing and improving my skills.

This weekend Tom and I are going sport climbing at Red Wing. I'm looking forward to sport lead and improving my climbing skills.

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Do this workout…

:20 Pushups
:10 Rest
*Repeat 8 rounds

Rest 2 Minutes

:20 Bodyweight Squats
:10 Rest
*Repeat 8 rounds

Rest 2 Minutes

:20 Burpees
:10 Rest
*Repeat 8 rounds

Rest 2 Minutes

:20 Mountain Climbers
:10 Rest
*Repeat 8 rounds

Total Workout Time: 20 minutes.

Followed by Kettlebell work out:
Warmup 12 rounds :20 work x :10 rest, Hi Pulls, Swings, Clean & Press, Alternating Swings, Snatches L & R

Snatches 12 rounds alternating left & right aprox. 8 snatches / :20 round = 96 snatches
Snatches 12 rounds repeat Total Snatches 192 Kettlebell weight 16 kg.

I'm formulating my workouts for the Tactical Strength Challenge combining Kettlebells with body weight, rope climbing, turkish get ups and weighted pull-ups.

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Today's Quote.....

"There are no failures, only results, so get busy doing what you can to make the results better."

___Pat Riley

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4000 Feet..........

I'm right on track on my rope climbing ! Today I logged 4000' right on track with my 1000' per week goal. It's hard to believe how close to a mile I am at in 4 weeks. I definitely feel stronger.
I've also added Turkish Get-Ups with kettlebells to add to my core training regiment. I will be posting a video soon on TGU's for those not aware of this intense core training excercise. I have my training sights on September Tactical Strength Challenge at Kinetic Edge Performance. I will also post how I plan on adding to my training for this challenging event.

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Week in Review

Went to Kinetic Edge 2x for "Gauntlet" & "Inferno" circuit training to help me amp up my desire to train hard. Went to Bikram yoga 1x to continue on flexibility training. I also strength trained in my garage gym and outdoors circuits. Overall I had a real good week and I'm looking forward to another great week and my climbing weekend at Blue Mounds & Pallisades this next weekend.

Rope climbing as of 7-19-09 3,440 feet

I'm starting to do lots of Turkish Get-Ups with Kettlebells to add to my rope climbing core training.

I've got my sights set on the September Tactical Strength Challenge. So I'm going to start gearing my training for this challenge. I will post my training plans as they unfold.

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