Hangboarding
Hanging around by my fingers, hoping that my forearms don't pump out on me. Out of frame, my toes are on one of those bosu-balance-ball kinda things -- so I'm not hanging 100% of my weight from my fingers. 6-reps: 10s on, 5s rest. Feeling fresh still because this is only the 2nd of 8 grip types (resulting in a total of 8minutes of hangboarding).
So I wasn't able to climb regularly for a few months because of sickness and traveling. I'm getting back into it and feeling surprisingly strong, but my fingers are getting tired before anything else and I'm NOT willing to risk a finger injury! Do you think training fingers on a hangboard would be a good idea or a bad idea at this point? I keep going back and forth with the idea.
Finger injuries totally suck!
Without knowing a whole lot about how long you've been climbing for (and considering the fact that I don't really know what I"m talking about), it's hard to say. If you've done a fair bit of hangboarding before, you're probably fine to jump back into it. From what I understand, tendons strengthen (and conversely, weaken) signficantly slower than muscles. That being said -- it's definitely pretty stressful on your fingers. I, personally, would probably try to ease into it and see how it feels -- maybe take a bit of weight off your fingers by standing on your toes a bit if you need to dial it back a bit...
But at the end of the day, it's all about listening to your own body.
Wow... great one dude... Keep rocking... I welcome you to visit my profile at anytime... :) Resteemed...
Thanks dude! I'll check it out!
Looks really hard nice job!! I would like to try sometime..I only practice on pole dancing but I think it will be a great challenge for me!!
Well I would think you'd need a pretty solid grip for pole-dance. You'd probably do better than you think. Thanks for stopping by!