Weekly routine

We've settled on a three-times-a-week climbing schedule. My mind would easily visit the gym more often, but I'm trying to listen to my body and take it slow. Three times was a recommendation I saw on some plausible "climbing tips for beginners" article. Everyone seems to agree that your joints and tendons grow stronger slower than your muscles, and it's easy to cause some micro injuries just by doing too much too soon.

On the other hand, I do have some other stuff to keep me moving. I do horseback riding twice a week. My riding sessions are typically dressage training with coach and they involve a great amount of active use of my core muscles and some sweating.

Once a week there's time for a Pilates lesson and every Friday afternoon I'm attending smooth and relaxing (and sometimes painful) stretching class. These two I'm not able to make every week - I usually have to skip either one of them almost every other week because of work-related travelling.

Other stuff is less structured. We use to have a brisk 5-6 km walk with the doggy once or twice a week. I was trying to improve my chin ups (to be honest, I'm trying to make the first one), and I'm still practicing on the pull-up bar couple of minutes almost every day. Because of bouldering I've abandoned chin ups and trying to do pull ups with a little bit wider grip.

Example of my weekly routine (last week):

• Monday - riding
• Tuesday - bouldering
• Wednesday - pilates & bouldering
• Thursday - riding
• Friday - stretching & some board games, a little bit wine and good food :)
• Saturday - bouldering (PT training / technique class - I was able to send three new 6A's)
• Sunday - walk with the hubby and doggy