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The real trick is to never have to get out of bed in the morning.

by tdavis 18y ago

unalone 18y ago
I envy you. On the side, 3 and 8 work incredibly well. I sleep on the top bunk and so I have to jump out of bed just to disable an alarm, or else my roommate starts kicking me through the bedsheet. It's a motivator, all right. And I wake up much faster on a day after a work-out session. I've been doing P90X for a little while now, and while it hurts like hell, the next day I wake up bursting with energy. It's great.
- blackguardx 18y ago
  I have found that I am dead in the morning after a really hard day of rock climbing. Maybe it is because I am usually sore all over my body.
  - tdavis 18y ago
    My workout guarantees I am perpetually sore. It sucks for a couple weeks, but after a few months you get used to it and you actually do have more energy... though paradoxically require more sleep to recharge. As long as I hit the minimum number of hours, though, I feel like a million bucks.
    - unalone 18y ago
      That's how it's been for me too. Part of me misses feeling not-battered. The rest of me really enjoys the energy I have despite that.
    - blackguardx 18y ago
      I have been climbing for over a year. I still don't burst out of bed with energy in the morning.
  - thaumaturgy 18y ago
    Climbing is different from typical gym workouts. It puts far more stress on your tendons than your muscles, and tends to exert injurious forces on your muscles when it does work on them. Tendons take longer to heal than muscles. Plus, most climbers have a series of rapid warm-up and cool-down cycles -- climb, stop, belay, climb, stop, etc. -- which doesn't get the heart rate going the same way that an extended aerobic workout does. Your climbing will tend to improve if instead of climbing a few hard routes, you climb a bunch of routes about one full grade below your maximum ability. Bonus points if you can score a belayer that doesn't mind the boring end of the rope for an entire evening. As your muscles become fatigued, your body will start trying to get lazy and sloppy, and that's where your technique will actually improve. Straining on a really hard route doesn't do anything good for technique / body position / etc. (Former climbing instructor from Livermore. I really miss it, can you tell?)
    - blackguardx 18y ago
      I climb everything from 5 grades below my current level to one grade above. I have found that consciously maintaining good technique on the hard routes helps me out a lot. I don't believe in "redpointing," so I usually don't try to force myself up a really hard route that I'm having trouble on. That is how you get injured. The soreness I get after climbing is the same kind of soreness I used to get during the first two weeks of a weight lifting routine. It is not tendon damage or severe muscle damage because it doesn't last more than a day.
kqr2 18y ago
Descartes was accustomed to working in bed until noon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes
- zer0 18y ago
  Even in his portrait René Descartes looks somnolent.
jodrellblank 18y ago
Winston Churchill - in the years until he became prime minister: "Despite all this activity Churchill’s daily routine changed little during these years. He awoke about 7:30 a.m. and remained in bed for a substantial breakfast and reading of mail and all the national newspapers. For the next couple of hours, still in bed, he worked, dictating to his secretaries. At 11:00 a.m., he arose, bathed, and perhaps took a walk around the garden"

The real trick is to never have to get out of bed in the morning.

by tdavis 18y ago

The real trick is to never have to get out of bed in the morning.

I envy you. On the side, 3 and 8 work incredibly well. I sleep on the top bunk and so I have to jump out of bed just to disable an alarm, or else my roommate starts kicking me through the bedsheet. It's a motivator, all right. And I wake up much faster on a day after a work-out session. I've been doing P90X for a little while now, and while it hurts like hell, the next day I wake up bursting with energy. It's great.

blackguardx 18y ago
I have found that I am dead in the morning after a really hard day of rock climbing. Maybe it is because I am usually sore all over my body.
- tdavis 18y ago
  My workout guarantees I am perpetually sore. It sucks for a couple weeks, but after a few months you get used to it and you actually do have more energy... though paradoxically require more sleep to recharge. As long as I hit the minimum number of hours, though, I feel like a million bucks.
  - unalone 18y ago
    That's how it's been for me too. Part of me misses feeling not-battered. The rest of me really enjoys the energy I have despite that.
  - blackguardx 18y ago
    I have been climbing for over a year. I still don't burst out of bed with energy in the morning.
- thaumaturgy 18y ago
  Climbing is different from typical gym workouts. It puts far more stress on your tendons than your muscles, and tends to exert injurious forces on your muscles when it does work on them. Tendons take longer to heal than muscles. Plus, most climbers have a series of rapid warm-up and cool-down cycles -- climb, stop, belay, climb, stop, etc. -- which doesn't get the heart rate going the same way that an extended aerobic workout does. Your climbing will tend to improve if instead of climbing a few hard routes, you climb a bunch of routes about one full grade below your maximum ability. Bonus points if you can score a belayer that doesn't mind the boring end of the rope for an entire evening. As your muscles become fatigued, your body will start trying to get lazy and sloppy, and that's where your technique will actually improve. Straining on a really hard route doesn't do anything good for technique / body position / etc. (Former climbing instructor from Livermore. I really miss it, can you tell?)
  - blackguardx 18y ago
    I climb everything from 5 grades below my current level to one grade above. I have found that consciously maintaining good technique on the hard routes helps me out a lot. I don't believe in "redpointing," so I usually don't try to force myself up a really hard route that I'm having trouble on. That is how you get injured. The soreness I get after climbing is the same kind of soreness I used to get during the first two weeks of a weight lifting routine. It is not tendon damage or severe muscle damage because it doesn't last more than a day.

kqr2 18y ago

Descartes was accustomed to working in bed until noon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes

zer0 18y ago
Even in his portrait René Descartes looks somnolent.

jodrellblank 18y ago

Winston Churchill - in the years until he became prime minister: "Despite all this activity Churchill’s daily routine changed little during these years. He awoke about 7:30 a.m. and remained in bed for a substantial breakfast and reading of mail and all the national newspapers. For the next couple of hours, still in bed, he worked, dictating to his secretaries. At 11:00 a.m., he arose, bathed, and perhaps took a walk around the garden"