I would be very thankful for some feedback on my routine
Hello everybody,
i'm new here in the forum and also pretty new when it comes to classical strength training.
Im coming from climbing (by far not professional, but still motivated to improve) and so far most of my workout consisted of climbing and some additional specific exercises like dead hangs or campus board exercises (although not very structured. Mostly just a few sets now and than after climbing or at home).
Now, thanks to the closure of climbing gyms over the cold period, i was/still am pretty out of shape (gained too much weight, lost too much power - interestingly i lost a lot of pulling power, but not so much of gripping power). This has to be changed, so i decided to give "structured" workouts a go.
My goal:
Get stronger (specifically when it comes to climbing-related stuff, but also overall strength).
Loose the gained weight.
Therefore i set up a trainingsplan for myself with very little background knowledge and now, after following this plan for about a month i'm questioning myself if my made up plan makes even any sense or if i'm just wasting my time.
So i would be more than happy if i could get some thoughts from you regarding the following workout plan:
day 1 (desired target: chest & shoulders, push power to balance pulling-workout):
5 sets of (10 pushups, 15 dumbbell flys on ground, 10 dumbbell chest press on ground, 15 Chest pull-over both hands on 1 dumbbell, 10 plate press-out); Within one set i try to rest as little as possible between the exercises. So overall one Set takes me about 3-4 minutes and after that i rest 7-6 minutes - So one set takes me 10 minutes with train + rest time combined.
3 sets of 15 x Theraband fly per arm (not sure if this does anything. I feel my chest contracting but not really burning. Therefore i feel it in the side of my obliques, so i keep doing them).
day 2: rest
day 3 (desired target: pull power & core):
3 sets of (10 pull ups, 20 L-sit crunches, 20 legraisers on ground, 20 hip raisors on ground, 10 L-sit crunches) - at the moment i can do max 8 pullups in a row (dropping to 7 in set 3), but i still finish the 10 per set after a short break.
One set takes me about 4 min, after that 4 min i do 10 min rest, so one set train + rest together takes about 14 min.
5 sets of (2-3 weighted pullups till failure, 10 biceps curls with hammer grip), with 5 min rest between sets
day 4: rest
restart at day 1.
additional on every day: light hangboard workout with 10 sets deadhangs on various holds (starting on easy ones going to rather bad but not suberbad ones and back to easier ones again). Goal here: Keeping the fingers healthy and prevent injury
So far im quite happy with the results, but since i have no benchmark and also no theoretical knowledge i cant really judge.
Therefore it would be great to hear some ouf your thoughts about what i'm doing and of course improvements would be great too.
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