Last night I had a great session at EICA Ratho in Edinburgh where I did 12 routes on the ridiculously steep competition wall! There are some excellent new routes which really tested my forearm endurance.
I’ve just detached myself from my Compex mi-Sport after completing my second session with the equipment. As well as working on my finger and wrist flexors I also decided to try it out on my biceps this time. First of all I used the motor point pen to determine the exact position of the motor points, which appeared to work much better than my haphazard approach last time!
I selected the “Strength” programme and increased the muscular contraction levels to about 50 for my wrist and finger flexors and about 75 for my biceps, with a work Level of 3 (38 minutes). My arms felt quite tired afterwards yet I still think I could handle a higher level of contraction next time! The sensation of the electrodes on my biceps was a bit strange at first, rather like pins and needles, but after a few minutes I felt a lot more comfortable with the feeling.
Tomorrow I am coaching children for the Quickdraw Climbing Club for their first session after the summer holidays, which is a monthly job for myself and a fellow British Team member. Hopefully we will get a good training session in after work for ourselves too. Maybe I should introduce the Club to EMS training!? Off for a session on my Beastmaker fingerboard now and then dinner!