Spent the weekend preparing for work in SB for the week, carrying out errands, and squeezed in a two hour climbing session. On a typical day at the gym, I tend to jump on difficult climbs right off the bat, and rest long periods of time in between. It's more fun and challenging, but this results in minimal development of endurance. This time around, I went after more reps on easy climbs then a handful of difficult.
I did push ups, traversed, and stretched to warm up, and then did as many V0 - V2 problems as possible. I tried to plan my moves for every problem before jumping on, and focused on making the most efficient moves possible. I also typically mantle or jump off from the top, but I forced myself to carefully down climb the same route, all the way to the bottom. I quickly exhausted myself, not even coming near to doing all the easy problems in the gym. I stopped when I sensed my hands developing hot spots, precursors to oozing blisters. I couldn't afford hurting my hands before an entire week of building fences!
The week in Santa Barbara was beyond expectations in opportunities for exercise. Ten hour days of constant hiking, lifting, lugging 45lb loads, digging, hiking, balancing on steep slopes, and then some more hiking. Incredible work-out, and all while on the job! As it was, I was too exhausted and hurting at the end of the day to do much biking or swimming.
This weekend will probably be one of mostly rest. I will definitely squeeze at least one session of climbing at the gym, maybe something outdoors as well.
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