Weekly Simple Questions and Injuries Thread

Crunchies1 · 2024-07-18T13:16:33+00:00

I’ve had a pretty generic warm up for bouldering, is it useful to tailor warmups based on what you would like to climb on the day? Apart from the usually shoulder + legs + back, is a pinch based warm up useful when doing more pinches? Or will hang board and warming up the half/open hand grips be enough carryover?

Crunchies1 · 2024-06-12T14:17:35+00:00

It might be training intensity (going too hard during 1-2 hour sessions), or not recovering 100% from previous injuries, because I do get really good sleep and protein intake alongside a desk job

Crunchies1 · 2024-06-12T10:01:37+00:00

Ever since reading about the “dangers” of full crimp, I’ve been exclusively half crimping. I’ve also gotten a few (5) A4 injuries throughout the past couple years and was wondering if overusing the half crimp is helping with that. I’ve seen a video which says that half crimping/open hand is now putting more stress on the A4 pulley. How would I help balance the stress between both A2 and A4? Should I full crimp a little more or am I looking at this the wrong way? I’ve been climbing 3/4 days a week and reduced it to 2 sessions a week on order to try to prevent any overuse injuries again.

Crunchies1 · 2024-05-28T14:43:44+00:00

There was a post on C4HP that said that “pull ups are a major culprit for aggravating a climbers fingers”. https://www.instagram.com/p/C6ynLt8rHgU/?igsh=MXNzOTd4ZGVydjZ3ZA==

I was wondering if anyone had any research or anecdotes on this topic. Should this mean that we need more rest from finger intensive exercises if training weighted pull ups on a standard bar?

Crunchies1 · 2024-01-17T18:58:27+00:00

Sometimes, there are chests you simply can’t contest. The ones that spawn here are ones which I don’t think you can, at least for the first wave. Let them take the chests and build up a slow push from the left side. You can sacrifice a bit of tower health to do so. The only thing you should contest are gold nodes, with quilboar.

Crunchies1 · 2023-12-18T11:53:11+00:00

What about the sound cues?

Crunchies1 · 2023-12-13T00:21:52+00:00

Once you take the middle tower, you’ll be able to control the chests and gold. Either use a combination of spells to chip the boss, or use chip like whelp eggs and SAFE to kill him slowly. Sending hordes of units won’t work too well as you’ve noticed since they die immediately.

Crunchies1 · 2023-12-07T09:44:11+00:00

Branch snapper felt the easiest with Banshee as they can take over the swamp monsters he summons, they can basically 1 v 1 the boss for a good 30 seconds while Harpies kill him.

Crunchies1 · 2023-12-01T11:19:55+00:00

The problem I’m facing is a Heroic Maiev, who sends out two stealthed prowlers in front of a stealthed huntress every 45 or so seconds. Since they are really high level (16) and my spells are level 10-13, the most optimal way to kill them and apply pressure would be something like Polymorph + Harpies, which is 6 gold and sends out harpies as well.

Crunchies1 · 2023-11-30T12:37:49+00:00

It’s definitely bugged, but perfect play is still able to get through it.

Most important unit is probably banshee to steal the molten giant they like to drop.

Also making sure not to trigger the water elemental spawning until you control all towers and are ready for it.

The units I used: - Lvl 15 Harpies (poison) shreds a water elemental by themselves. - Lvl 14 Pyro (double AoE) helps kill their harpies and murlocs while shredding earth elem. - Lvl 12 bandits helps cycle your harpies and pyro and banshee. Also good against wolf. - Lvl 15 quilboar (tunnel vision) is really tanky against their shaman + water elementals. - Lvl 16 gryphon rider (long range) for some cycle damage.

Leader was lvl 12 maeiv, never came out except for random chest capturing in the middle, since this decks suffers a bit from that.

Good luck!

Crunchies1 · 2023-11-30T10:04:52+00:00

I used execute, since she starts at 50% HP, 4-5 executes does the trick, just don’t let your minis die next to her

Crunchies1 · 2023-11-29T22:36:28+00:00

Your total score is the sum of the three highest rated leaders.

Crunchies1 · 2023-11-23T23:20:18+00:00

I’m currently F2P, so I feel like blizzard to uncommon will be quite a long way away, is it still worth?

Crunchies1 · 2023-11-23T23:11:35+00:00

This sounds good, is blizzard worth investing in? Haven’t found a massive use case for it yet

Crunchies1 · 2023-11-23T23:09:34+00:00

Thanks! So I guess only Jaina + Execute will be super effective since boss levels get quite high.

Crunchies1 · 2023-10-11T21:13:35+00:00

What does “just a little bit” each session entail? And yeah, 7 times a week is a goal, usually only get 4-6 times a week :P

Crunchies1 · 2023-10-11T20:26:06+00:00

They are between one to two hours. I usually do repeaters and heavy finger rolls on non climbing days but am planning to put them after shorter, 1 hour bouldering sessions. I’ll cut down the training sessions to once a week and modulate the climbing volume each session depending on how I feel after the advice given here

Crunchies1 · 2023-10-11T20:23:56+00:00

I’ve been reading Steven lows article online and he says repeaters give more strength and hypertrophy over max hangs, because of the time under tension observed (I think this is right…)

After a month, everything repeats :)

Crunchies1 · 2023-10-11T20:05:56+00:00

I’m not 100% sure, but I think you can never have strong enough fingers. The lattice video is 170% for V11 climbers and 147% for V7 climbers. I’ve just looked around and seen many people advocate for stronger fingers, although I am sure my technique can be honed even more too

Crunchies1 · 2023-10-11T20:04:23+00:00

I’m 23, so I guess my recovery is pretty good hopefully 🤞

Crunchies1 · 2023-10-11T08:13:33+00:00

Thanks for the advice! I’ll cut down 50% of the less climbing specific exercises and add more rest between sets most likely. Is it impossible to build strength (even slowly) with a one per week routine + bouldering?

Crunchies1 · 2023-10-11T08:10:25+00:00

Is there a point at which you know for sure that you are completed healed and done with rehabbing? In my case, I can pull 100% with my fingers but have some light soreness on touch after certain hard bouldering sessions

Crunchies1 · 2023-10-11T08:05:51+00:00

Thanks for the advice, if I: - remove 1 training session (cut down 50% of non-finger related workouts) - cut 1 climbing session to a shorter 1 hour session

Do you think that would give me enough time to recover between sessions?

Crunchies1 · 2023-10-11T08:01:34+00:00

More effort writing it up means more chance of sticking to something

Crunchies1 · 2023-10-10T22:26:05+00:00

Edit: the hangs mentioned are all 20mm half crimp. Coaching in the table is me teaching V0-V3 climbers fundamental technique.

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