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Re: [c_plante] Bigger Climbers?:
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treyfrancisclimbs
Apr 13, 2007, 5:00 PM
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I am 6'4 and rocking right around 225 right now. I try to lift 4 days a week as well as throwing in 4 days of cardio to match. I have found that when I have trained really hard with just climbing I had a tendency to have more finger injuries and more tendonitis. I am now in the process of trying to drop down to 210 or so by altering my weight training a little. I still want to maintain my muscle mass, but want to lose any excess body fat I can. In the recent issue of Muscle and fitness there is an article and lifting program for burning fat and retaining muscle that involves a pretty intense regimen of supersets.
The program can be either 4 or 8 weeks, with the exercises and supersets changing after one or two weeks respectively. You are forced to use lower weight and end up doing many reps, but still have great gains in strength without gaining a lot of muscle mass. Also, the short rest intervals and taking each set to failure insures that you are building massive muscle endurance as well as getting a fair amount of cardio training at the same time. After two weeks of this supersetting and 4 days a week of cardio I have lost 7-8 pounds and one notch on my belt. It seems to help overall endurance and performance while climbing too.
I still plan on climbing 2-3 times a week in order to get my forearms and other climbing specific muscles into better shape, but this type of lifting has made a big difference overall. If you have any questions or want me to send you the workout just PM me.
(This post was edited by treyfrancisclimbs on Apr 13, 2007, 6:45 PM)
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