Youtube description: Norwegian climber Magnus Midtbø has climbed a 9b route as one of few in the world. This video shows his extreme way of training in Oslo, Norway.
Translation:
1st clip
-"I just call it a one-finger pull-up, You feel that your'e using your entire body. Its a nice exercise"
2nd clip
Well, its just double-catching, but instead of maintaining grip on the top grip, I just hit it and go back down. I feel like I'm getting lots of "explosive strength" from that excercise. Climbing is often slow, but if you can climb some parts fast, you can save time and efforts, so this gives me that explosive strength
1:00
This is just "locking" with one arm, and I let myself down with one arm with an extra weight [in the other arm] and then you'll have to brake your own weight. Now, I can do this with up to 20 kg in the other arm. Its more demanding to go down than to pull yourself up, if you brake all the way and do it controlled
1:40
I Jump with my arms, so that both arms release and have no contact with the handles for each jump. Its explosive strength again, plus I let myself down, so its a combination in a way, your bodyweight comes down, and you need to use your arms as brakes
You dont really need steel (the weights) , because when I let myself go(and catch again), its like a double bodyweight because your body is coming down.
Sometimes, when I try an excercise or a new route, or a new move that I've never tried before, that seems impossible, and I keep at it until I'm all worn out, I can rest for two days, and during that time, its like my body has remembered and prepared for the moves, and when I go back to do it I feel that its suddenly easy. Its stuff like that that you discover as a climber
11 Comments
JiggaJonson*tries to do a pullup*
URGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
*feels like a loser*
visionepsays...Looks like a good candidate for Ninja Warrior.
FletchMy carpal tunnel is acting up.
EDDI'm going to work out and work out, and work on it, and keep pushing myself until I can do at least one.
Seriously.
Let me elaborate a bit. A year ago I was a complete couch potato. I couldn't jog for more than a kilometer, couldn't do more than 6 or 7 consecutive pushups - near-zero marks on a fitness scale, basically. That all changed this April, when I finally decided to get of my (fat) ass. I'd already started gradually changing my eating habits since year's end 2010, and in April I finally started working out. For half a year I've been allocating somewhere between an hour and two and a half practically each day for workouts; running almost every other day and in between - also every other day - did bodyweight exercises: started with these, built a routine around them, but recently substituted it for a weightlifting program in a gym. I've lost some 15 kg, I've done the 100 pushups program (yup, pretty much anyone can do it, and in less than six months, too), recently ran my first half-marathon (1:47, very proud of that time), and I'm aiming for 2 marathons (NYC among them, hopefully), a 70k ultra, and a long-course triathlon next year.
So because this is so inspiring to me, and because I want to be able to do what he does, and because I realize now that anyone who sets their mind to it and works towards it relentlessly can do it, let's *doublepromote
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Nebosukesays...That is some crazy arm strength.
hallucinatedsays...i'd like see him flip off somebody.
deathcowi went from zero to 12 fast full arm extension pullups over the last 90 days... p90x again
conansays...great. now i feel bad because i'm sitting at my desk eating pizza while watching this.
Deano*skillful
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