Getting the reps in

Warm-up:
Burgener warm-up
overhead squat

19x1 snatch (2x88,99,5x110 [f3],7x121 [f2,3,5],2x132,2x138)
1x(1+3) clean + jerk (132)
4x2 clean + jerk (2x132,143,154)

3x8 RDL (154)
3x8 glute-ham situps

All weights assuming the bar was 20kg.

Another day at Equinox. Lifted with a Yoon, who I met over at LBH (also the creator of the map below). Lifts felt ok, especially after I turned around so I wasn't facing the mirror. Got some good advice from Yoon regarding the first pull; I may try some snatch pull + snatch complexes tomorrow. Gym is real nice, got to do the situps on a real GHD. Got big boxes too, gonna max out on the box jumps tomorrow!

Ever wondered where all the gyms with bumpers in NYC are?
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40 what?!?

A climbing themed day with JKoll. Started by installing her new hangboard. It's an awesome piece of gear, but seeming as Joana has no studs, it's mounted in drywall only. This means that none of you guys is allowed to use it without cutting some weight! We proceeded to Rat Rock in Central Park (where Bon Jovi was puttin on a free concert), and met a nice guy named Ari who showed us a tough slabby problem with tiny holds on the north face. Worked on that and a nice traverse in addition to the same move I get stuck on in the Polish Traverse. Ended the day by walking down to MPHC to meet Kenway and his brother for some indoor climbing (the meetup was ultimately foiled by NYC traffic). You'd think we would have been exhausted after all of this, but Joana ended the day by running 40, that's right 40, laps on a 5.6! WTF?! (Oh yeah, brunch, sprinkler soaking, tree climbing, fence jumping, fence breaking and Pinkberry eating occurred at various times between the climbing.)

For future NYC bouldering trips:
www.climbnyc.com
upstatemanhattanboulderer.blogspot.com
scottsnelling.blogspot.com

Central Park Bouldering

Perfect day to climb outside, so despite some lingering jetlag, I met up with Joana to explore some boulders in Central Park. I'm surprised we never made it to CP to climb, but I guess maybe the weather hasn't been conducive for awhile. Either way, today was perfect and my fingers have been itching ever since climbing in Cascais. We started off at Rat Rock, where we met up with Dave. Tough to figure out what constituted a problem, but there was good stuff on all the faces. I especially like a problem on the West face (thanks for pointing it out Dave, although that heel-hook wasn't working for me), and there is a fun flake on the East face. We then decided to find Cat Rock, which we arrived at through a rather roundabout path (if it weren't for the map below, I doubt I could find it again). Problems here were tougher, more vertical, crimpy and had committing topouts. We spent a good while trying to find problems we could get more than a few moves into. After 45 minutes of this, we all spontaneously decided that burgers were necessary. Off the Stand we went for burgers and beer!

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Morningside Park bouldering

First try at some bouldering in Morningside Park. I started at a nice easy face, which for a lack of creativity, I've labelled Rock I on the map below. There's a nice easy traverse to warm up on. No sign of climbing (eg, chalk) so I just climbed a couple of obvious corners. Real rock is sharp, and I need a brush to clean some dirt off some of the holds, but I had a lot of fun! Just the tip of the iceberg too, I've spotted at least 3 more good problems. I'll update this map as I make progress.

Update: Turns out I was climbing on the east face of Crackpipe corner. I had a look at the south face where you can find NYPD Goo (V2), and it looks like fun (although the landing isn't nearly as nice).
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Beach workout III

200 meters push throw (at least 25# marble cylinder, 6-7 paces between throws)
200 meter walk with cylinder held at shoulder height
150 meters push throw (at least 35# rock, ~4 paces between throws)

Had to stop early to finish packing. Will definitely incorporate more odd object lifting in the future.

Beach workouts I and II.
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