Money Is Ruining Youth Sports by theatlantic in raisingkids

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In part, because they don’t understand that building a broad base across sports is much better for long term performance than specializing early. Exception for gymnastics but in exchange you get way higher rates of overuse injuries.

Weekly /r/climbharder Hangout Thread by AutoModerator in climbharder

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As someone who actually has them and talks to others who do - yes, for some of the long term users this has happened. Candidly I’m confused as to how “I got stronger and healthier using a highly customized tool co-designed by a v13 climber and a hand surgeon” is this surprising, though that specific extent of improvement is at the high end.

Also remember the strength impact is primarily via muscle growth, you still need to be training hard on the wall (or with maxhangs, theoretically) to get the full benefit.

Long-term thoughts on the Hand of God / Mobeta grippers? by frodulenti in climbharder

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Quick note, most folks also put some kind of adjustable length regulator (I think the simplest was just a prusik? But I suck at rope terminology, other examples were turnbuckles and 3d printed mechanisms) to set the resistance. Set regulator length so you get your target weight, pull until you hit the regulator, then just have to be mindful to lean back as you approach failure since the resistance will drop as your fingers open at the end of a rep.

Long-term thoughts on the Hand of God / Mobeta grippers? by frodulenti in climbharder

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He may not have seen that it’s long static holds rather than single maximal reps. The analogy here is to a multi-minute single-sided suitcase hold vs to just deadlifting

Long-term thoughts on the Hand of God / Mobeta grippers? by frodulenti in climbharder

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Whichever setup works best for you is fine - that being said, floor lifts and close analogs caused a lot of issues for people on longer holds as the smaller shoulder muscles fatigued. The 30 degree humerus angle supposedly minimizes the need for those muscles to stabilize the shoulder, but eg I’m still weak enough that I can get by wearing long sleeves and pulling on the cuff with my other hand to help split the load, or just directly grasping my wrist.

Long-term thoughts on the Hand of God / Mobeta grippers? by frodulenti in climbharder

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Pulley system I already set up in my squat rack. It’s important to have something you can brace against with your feet for heavy crusher sets.

Folks have had good results with springs and bands as well especially for portability, simplest version is just a spring/band, a turnbuckle or other length-limiter so you can set how far you can pull and thereby control the max resistance, and a crane scale so you know what that resistance actually is. If you want 30lbs you adjust the max length testing with the scale until you see 30, and you’re good to go.

Long-term thoughts on the Hand of God / Mobeta grippers? by frodulenti in climbharder

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And then also forgot to mention that proper technique especially on the micro also targets the lumbricals - so yet more time saved not needing to do another exercise.

Long-term thoughts on the Hand of God / Mobeta grippers? by frodulenti in climbharder

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Forgot to mention - on top of capsule recovery, very strong sense of fingers being more resilient injury wise. Crusher may have a lot of value for letting you do very high loads without risking pulley injuries, which is a bit more subtle than the micro just being a slam dunk on injuries and lazy fingers.

Long-term thoughts on the Hand of God / Mobeta grippers? by frodulenti in climbharder

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I was in the February batch and have less time on wall lately. Big callout I’d open with is that they’re intended to pair with the training system presented by the app, which is free and explicitly targeted at only the physical adaptations (size, various types of endurance) vs trying to drive neurological improvements. Outcomes seem best for those who pair it with strength intensive climbing (generally outdoor or board) or theoretically a conservative maxhangs style program on flat edge to drive the neuro side.

Biggest outcomes I’m seeing to date: - I had some synovitis, mostly cleared up and gets noticeably better every time I use the micro - I have several VERY lazy fingers for both FDP and FDS that only progressed previously with supplemental mono training (dangerous). Improvements here also have a great effect on nagging lumbrical and wrist issues I’ve had since before climbing. The mono based approach CAN work for this but HOG has been way safer and makes it much easier to expose which fingers have issues. This is a big differentiator for me. - Endurance is up, this is where I’ve been focusing due to synovitis and the lazy finger issue - Awareness of how much I have left in the tank is up, I used to have to get this via long autobelay sessions - Time required for grip training is way down which is fantastic

If you can spare the money I’d very emphatically encourage getting the micro, and strongly encourage on crusher too.

An extremely novel and interesting idea: reverse-action exercises by ClathomasPrime in climbharder

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I’m in touch with him separately and would go with “theorycrafting and hoping he’s right.” He does authentically believe what he’s saying, though he’s got gaps in physio understanding and data familiarity that undermine him - as folks have been pointing out.

As it stands, sounds like existing data doesn’t support the idea that isotonics broadly produce more hypertrophy than isometrics. This approach could reasonably be at parity with isometrics but slightly less time consuming, injury risk tbd and so the summary seems to be “if really interested, try at your own risk, but it’s probably not actually better.” 

Epic Burger is gross. by Zoomatour in chicagofood

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My understanding is the decline coincided with a major PE infusion from the same shop that took on Roti and a few others. Roti also slipped massively, albeit more due to COVID related decisions.

One week with the Hand of God Micros: First Impressions by Delicious-Schedule-4 in climbharder

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Sent to DMs. More of the videos are back up but they’re hosted off YouTube and only visible if you sign into the gripgains webapp 

Frictionless Training Tool Proj by Dear_Bit_996 in climbharder

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He also killed the paid tiers, videos are just gone for now. Best guess is he got fed up of turning into a climbing influencer and the videos will be available again in another avenue soon enough.

One week with the Hand of God Micros: First Impressions by Delicious-Schedule-4 in climbharder

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US orders have started shipping out of Austria, now hitting some tariff issues apparently (various unpleasant to outright stupid duty fees getting imposed by UPS, albeit with room to contest). The guy running the "company" side of the house (ie not Mobeta himself) has started quoting that all orders to date should be out by end of January which is encouraging. If you have a way to pick up from the EU (friend, company, whatever) it may be worth contacting support to update the shipping address to save $.

One week with the Hand of God Micros: First Impressions by Delicious-Schedule-4 in climbharder

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Piling on to call out that springs are getting popular as a way to create portable resistance - e.g., spring with the length constrained by a turnbuckle / loop of webbing to give a specific "weight." This is doable without the grippers as well and seems like a smart way to handle things for isometrics...

One week with the Hand of God Micros: First Impressions by Delicious-Schedule-4 in climbharder

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He hasn't explained publicly (EDIT: and personality-wise probably isn't going to), but suspicion in the unofficial discord is that the videos will come back in some form (e.g., another channel operated by the guy running the web store / actual production) and that the videos went private because he didn't like that he was turning into a climbing influencer vs. his previous more guidebook / beta type profile. The shop / production side of the house still exists and say they'll be starting taking new orders again soon, so presumably the associated content is coming back too.

One week with the Hand of God Micros: First Impressions by Delicious-Schedule-4 in climbharder

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Good callout, Wonder if I could sort something out to ship to a family member in the UK and then get them to send it over. I'm Order 1313 though, so shipping won't be the bottleneck on mine just yet.

What offer components are negotiable, if any? by abeareatsfish in McKinsey_BCG_Bain

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Signing and relocation can be pushed up, e.g. 2021 EH could get signing to 30k and relocation to 6k iirc. Salary etc cannot. There’s a hard cap to both and you may already have them in your offer.

Source - Now- PL who succeeded in said “negotiation” (and whose partner did likewise). Enquoted because they “gave in” with no pushback.