Last Friday I was training at EICA Ratho and managed to complete one of my 8a projects that I’ve been working on! I felt great on the route and my forearms barely felt “pumped” at all! I reckon that using my Compex on the capillarisation and endurance settings is helping my forearm endurance to a large extent, and this gives me great hope for the last European Youth Series Round in Slovenia next week!
Just a quick note about climbing grades such as “8a” etc, see http://www.ukclimbing.com/databases/crags/comptable.html
and the grades that I refer to mostly are the “Sport” grades which are also known as “French” grades. The French system is an internationally recognised system for grading sport climbs and is therefore used on bolted routes within the UK and indoors. Unlike the UK system, this uses a single figure to describe the how hard the route is as a whole.
I have also been doing a lot of coaching over the last two weeks or so, and tonight I am coaching a young boy who has not long started climbing but is showing great potential. I am really enjoying helping the up-and-coming young climbers from the Scotland South region, they are great kids and will be tearing up the competition scene next season I’m sure!