Comments for JackGeldard.com http://jackgeldard.com I'm a professional climber, instructor, writer and photographer. This site is both my day to day blog, and a showcase of some of my work. Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:25:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Ski Photos – Pas de Chevre by Mark Reeves http://jackgeldard.com/2012/01/11/ski-photos-pas-de-chevre/#comment-244 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:25:09 +0000 http://jackgeldard.com/?p=665#comment-244 I thought you were back in Vivian Quarry making an ascent of the route of the same name. Just boring skiing!

Awesome shots though

]]> Comment on Writing a Climbing Training Plan: Step 1 – Self Discipline and Realism by Ski Photos – Pas de Chevre « JackGeldard.com http://jackgeldard.com/2011/12/12/writing-a-climbing-training-plan-step-1-self-discipline-and-realism/#comment-243 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:57:36 +0000 http://jackgeldard.com/?p=649#comment-243 [...] Parts 2 and 3 of my training plan blog will be published [...]

]]> Comment on PHOTOS: Salvan Smash-Fest by ben http://jackgeldard.com/2011/08/30/491/#comment-234 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:37:50 +0000 http://jackgeldard.com/?p=491#comment-234 You look great by the way.

]]> Comment on Writing a Climbing Training Plan: Step 1 – Self Discipline and Realism by jackgeldard http://jackgeldard.com/2011/12/12/writing-a-climbing-training-plan-step-1-self-discipline-and-realism/#comment-227 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:16:10 +0000 http://jackgeldard.com/?p=649#comment-227 Hi John,

Glad you liked the article.

I can only speak from being 30 years old, but I certainly can feel the difference between now and being 20. My training habits have changed dramatically over the last 4 years, I have been continuously injured and I am now training around my injuries, and actively stretching and rehabilitating as I train (just back home from Yoga now. I would never have thought I would be a Yoga regular 10 years ago!).

Interestingly, a couple of years ago I was chatting to Dave MacLeod about injuries, and I was probably moaning, and he replied that for the last year he hadn’t been able to do a pull up due to tendonitis, but had structured his training and rehab around that. I think he was climbing about 8c+ at the time!

Where there is a will there is a way.

Good luck!

Jack

]]> Comment on Writing a Climbing Training Plan: Step 1 – Self Discipline and Realism by john yates http://jackgeldard.com/2011/12/12/writing-a-climbing-training-plan-step-1-self-discipline-and-realism/#comment-226 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:22:35 +0000 http://jackgeldard.com/?p=649#comment-226 Great article Jack. I think there’s some good golden rules for training that apply across the board and across the ages. But there’s also a shortage of specific information on training for climbers who are over 50 – people who may still have ambitions to step up the grades but who face greater difficulty striking the balance between the need to push yourself in training and remaining injury free. On a slightly different note, your piece reminds me of a response Stevie Haston made when someone complained on a thread that it was all right for Stevie, he could do hard routes because he had the ‘right build.’
Stevie’s reply to the complainant was blunt and to the point – ‘rebuild yourself then.’

]]> Comment on Writing a Climbing Training Plan: Step 1 – Self Discipline and Realism by jackgeldard http://jackgeldard.com/2011/12/12/writing-a-climbing-training-plan-step-1-self-discipline-and-realism/#comment-225 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:03:53 +0000 http://jackgeldard.com/?p=649#comment-225 Hi Andy, glad the article was of use.

I am going to follow it up with two more on similar lines, as I design my friend a tailored program for 2012.

Best,

Jack

]]> Comment on Writing a Climbing Training Plan: Step 1 – Self Discipline and Realism by Andy G http://jackgeldard.com/2011/12/12/writing-a-climbing-training-plan-step-1-self-discipline-and-realism/#comment-224 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:01:04 +0000 http://jackgeldard.com/?p=649#comment-224 Thanks for the article, Jack. Great, pragmatic advice at just the right time of year.

]]> Comment on As the year ends… plans are afoot! by jackgeldard http://jackgeldard.com/2011/12/07/as-the-year-ends-plans-are-afoot/#comment-223 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:21:49 +0000 http://jackgeldard.com/?p=569#comment-223 I am fully relying on you to drag my ass up there Nick!

Hope Spain was good. See you sometime this winter I hope.

J

]]> Comment on As the year ends… plans are afoot! by Nick Bullock http://jackgeldard.com/2011/12/07/as-the-year-ends-plans-are-afoot/#comment-222 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:55:05 +0000 http://jackgeldard.com/?p=569#comment-222 I can hardly contain myself Jack.

Lets hope ‘the major sea cliff’ is still standing by the time we get there and there are enough bulldogs and drive in bits of metal to make it possible!

Nick

]]> Comment on Matterhorn North Face by As the year ends… plans are afoot! « JackGeldard.com http://jackgeldard.com/2011/11/01/matterhorn-north-face/#comment-221 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:49:22 +0000 http://jackgeldard.com/?p=528#comment-221 [...] the Eiger (check out my UKC article) in the spring and the North Face of the Matterhorn (check out my writing) in the [...]

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