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Originally Posted by TXClimber
Damn, super jelly! Looks great.
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Originally Posted by MeLoveYouLongTime
Woah, that's cool!
Thanks both!
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Originally Posted by cottonseed1
Is it quite humid where you live? I tend to get more flappers and such training during the summer as it is pretty hot and humid where I live that time of year. One trick I will do is put some rubbing alcohol on my skin, let it dry then apply chalk. It dries out my skin a bit and keeps it from getting too soft. My hands tend to sweat a good bit and they almost never get too dry and cracked. Everyone is different in this regards so YMMV.
The weather in South East England never really gets particularly extreme. It's been pretty hot by UK standard recently, but it's not been very humid. I'm sure the issue is just my hands getting de-conditioned. When I started climbing, it took a while for my hands to toughen up. A couple of friends have also recently built home walls, and they've found the same thing.
I've climbed every day now for 5 days, and my technique is starting to recover, and the hands are starting to toughen up. I don't know if you get it in the US, but I'm a big fan of all the Rhino skin care products. They have a few - Spit is applied pre-climb and helps drying the hand. An another one is similar to Climb On.
I am attempting to a programme which is
Day 1: Hangboarding and pull-ups
Day 2: Climb - 4 hard boulder; dyno training; endurance training
Day 3: Legs and core
Day 4: Climb - Dyno/power practice; hard projects; and footwork training.
Day 5: Hangoarding and upper body lifts
Day 6: Fun climbs
So far, I have done Day 2 (climbing) twice; Day 4 (climbing) once; Day 6 (climbing) once and none of the strength days. I'll attempt to start on the strength today.
Anyway, for logging purposes, yesterday was 90 minutes climbing (over 2 hours with warm up, wamr down etc.) Today I did an hour's yoga before breakfast, and I'll aim to leg day this evening.