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Climbing Training 10-Feb-2012 At 3:54:09 PM hipdos

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On 10/02/2012 One Day Hero wrote:
>Seriously hipdos, what you do for your own training is up to you, but
>you're too stupid to be handing out advice to others. Really, I mean that.
>You just don't have the brains to be able to help others with their climbing.......I
>think its nature, wendy will probably argue that your upbringing is to
>blame......whatever, the result is the same either way.

Maybe you need a bex and a lie down?

I'm all for the just climb heaps philosophy. That's what we did when we started out. Kept going like that for a few years and improved nicely. Then we realised that you can do more structured training at the gym, and we were there a lot already, so why not give it a go? Turns out it was fun and made us even better, and was a change from just climbing the walls.

This bloke looks like he already has a bit of mileage under his belt, he wants to climb harder grades and his question was about training. I'm giving the advice I would have appreciated at the same stage. If you don't want to do it then don't, I think almost everyone agrees that climbing needs to be fun. Definitely listen to your body and be aware of potential injuries.