Thoughts on climbing and bouldering?

>>76338502 (OP)
imagine her taking a shit down on you lmao

stinky

>>76338502 (OP)
>BRO JUST GO OUTSIDE!
>go outside to the park
>people playing tennis, couples walking around together or playing with their kids
>I'm just walking around all by myself only saying hi to a few boomers
Seriously it's fucking over. It's impossible to make friends let alone a gf once you're out of school.

>>76338502 (OP)
Tried it.
The "fanbase" if you want to call it that was incredibly insufferable.
Literally every single one was a vegan, leftist hippie type who wants to smash the fash and live an alternative lifestyle, they hate capitalism, volunteer, want to save nature and protest for minorities sake.
Then you come to find out their lifestyle is completely financed by their rich parents and they are upper-class people who never knew real struggle.
It was quite a disconnect.

>>76338502 (OP)
Snapped both my elbow tendons

>>76338544
And little to none of them climb outdoors, they all do it in hangers.

Im stalled on V6, the V7s at my gym are just fucked hard. My goal for the year is to be able to do a muscle up instead and maaaaaaybe get a V7. Doesn’t help Ive been getting owned by digestive issues and my will to live fluctuates daily.

>>76338544
These are the type of people joker talked about when he said people are only as good as they're allowed to be.

>>76338544
>>Literally every single one was a vegan, leftist hippie type who wants to smash the fash and live an alternative lifestyle, they hate capitalism, volunteer, want to save nature and protest for minorities sake.
Sounds like the easiest pussy you can get

>>76338502 (OP)
Its fucking great, one of the best all round things for longevity and tons of fun. Indoor bouldering is cheap to get into, climbing you can be chucking a couple of grand into rope and gear but you will be doing indoor climbing which is as cheap as going to the gym before you decide to go outdoors properly,
>>76338544
100% this. insufferable fucking cunts. Full of turbo gate keepers, anorexics and people with mediocre careers with rich families.
>>76338598
Also 100% this. If you want to bang slightly chubby oriental women go bouldering.

>>76338515
sperganon, you dont just walk around outside expecting people to run up to you like "omg, is that you, random anon?!? wow i wanna be your friend now for no reason!!!" youve got to actually do something, you know. get a hobby that involves people that you can easily mingle with. seeing as this is a climbing and bouldering thread, it is an excellent hobby to make friends. just do some climbing and people will watch you and help you out and you can stand around and watch other people too and just mingle. ive made some great friends from climbing myself.

>>76338502 (OP)
Yeah it's great. I completed lifting so now I'm bouldering.

>>76338567
Climb your normal session, try your V6es. Then when you're out of strength and energy, climb a bunch of V4s without any breaks inbetween, then a bunch of V3s, V2s, keep climbing until even a V1 requires you to do the kind of moves you usually only need to do for V6.

Don't stop until you literally fall of the wall. Just look walk up, look at the final hold, put your hands on the wall.

>>76338515
oh my ogd its random anon
i know him
WHATS UP MAN

>>76338502 (OP)
There's a bouldering gym near me.
It's actually pretty fun, it's a good forearm and grip workout too.

It's rather expensive for what it is though so I rarely go.

>>76338502 (OP)

It's a good way to stay in shape and socialize with people. Plus you need to be thin to do it so most of you fat fucks can't participate.

>>76338890
its crazy how much a few kg makes a difference in climbing. i remember when i went from 90kg to 85kg and how much of a difference that made when i was climbing. i was really demoralized from climbing in the past when i was fat as fuck at 110kg. i hated it and felt weak as fuck, when it was just my weight that was holding me back like crazy.

>>76338632
Laughed hard at the last part. You described my ex to a T.

Gay in a gym, but based if done outside. I remember scrambling up a rockslide in California to get to a beautiful waterfall. 10/10 would do again

>>76338502 (OP)
Gets me out of my apartment a few times a week. I do my regular workouts at my work gym but the climbing gym I go to has some good stuff I like to do my deadlifts there now. But I'm in the 3's range. Right now I'm pretty bad at the tiny grips where you have to just use your fingertips so I gotta maybe start training the hang board. I try and go at least 2 or 3 times a week so I'm at least getting my monies worth. Smells like feet but you stop noticing after like a minute. Everyone is generally pretty nice, haven't had any problems with anybody. I'm not there for peoples fucking life story I'm just trying to climb and so are they and its great.

>>76338502 (OP)
Very fun but full of the most cringe urbanite open marriage yuppies you could imagine. Just don't join the "club" and you won't hate yourself for doing it.

The shoe dust is supposed to give you cancer https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestair.5c00017

>>76339899
Anything talc adjacent can. I mean that figuratively and literally. Silicates often form in layers you'll have talc asbestos and a bunch of other silicates all sandwiched together and they look alike so it's easy to dig too far and get the wrong one.

>>76338544
I've done bouldering for years, definitely an enthusiast and I'm 40 with a family, been doing construction my whole life and generally conservative. So blue collar to the max. Nature preservation comes with the territory, where the fuck are you going to climb if some monopoly man builds a hotel over the local climbing spot? There's a happy medium in between being politically on the right but not a mouth-breathing retard.

>>76338544
idk where this stereotype comes from really. all the people i see at the climbing gym are dorks at worst. the oldheads are finance bros or Mr Clean looking dudes running a landscaping business or something similar. there are some legitimate old hippies i guess but none of these bash the fash guys you talk about.

>>76338515
Remains undisputed to this day.

>>76338502 (OP)
I’d like to climb her boulder iykwim

>>76340096
You're a libtard and can't see the forest for the trees that's obvious enough

>>76338502 (OP)
I’m fascinated by the concept of climbing. It’s one of the few forms of resistance training which isn’t lifting, yet you can get decent size gains in your core, back, and forearms without ever lifting a single weight and without it feeling like work, it just feels fun. I can’t think of anything to compare it to in terms of muscle growth aside from lifting itself. Swimming isn’t effective enough, wrestling requires you have other people, boxing is basically just cardio, gymnastics is very physically and mentally fatiguing, ect.

It’s an avenue for guys that feel like lifting is too tedious, difficult, and boring. You’re not going to get huge, but it’s literally the best compromise one could make if you still wanted to get some gains without all the effort associated with lifting. Maybe throw in some weighted pull-ups and dips you do at home a couple days a week, and you’re goin to get a decent physique with basically no effort.

>>76340447
My formula is 50% climbing/25% bodyweight, usually with rings/25% weight training. Literally a cheat code for healthy, muscular body with lots of fun.

>>76338544
>Hates (((Capitalism)))
You do realize we don't live under Adam Smith's capitalism right? His creation of capitalism is strongest of the fittest but with gov preventing monopolies from forming. We live under a neo-feudal facist liberalisms thanks to private entities that control the money supply

>>76338515
>>76340192
Its so sad that there really are anons who have fallen for this bullshit.
Self-fulfilling prophecy at its finest.

>>76340565
>goes somewhere alone
>comes back home alone
lemme guess, you're the exception?

>>76338515
>go outside
>become phoneposter
>still among friends
srsly tho if you go to the rock gym you will make friends. every climber who's done it for more than three weeks is an expert and will go out of their way to talk to you about your grip and body positioning.

>>76338502 (OP)
Its awesome! Great exercise and its fun as hell.
>>76338632
>Its fucking great, one of the best all round things for longevity and tons of fun.
Indeed! :3
>>76338883
Yeah the price can be a real motivation killer depending on the area/country. Especially if its not easily continued outside after getting the basics down indoors or if you prefer indoors.

>>76338921
nta and yeah, its insane how much just a bit of extra weight impacts climbing.
>i was really demoralized from climbing in the past when i was fat as fuck at 110kg. i hated it and felt weak as fuck, when it was just my weight that was holding me back like crazy.
Did you get back to climbing after losing weight? (cheers for the unfattening :3)
>>76340069
> Nature preservation comes with the territory, where the fuck are you going to climb if some monopoly man builds a hotel over the local climbing spot? There's a happy medium in between being politically on the right but not a mouth-breathing retard.
Well put.

>>76338544
>want to save nature
The horror

>>76338554
How dude?

>>76340009
They might have traces of silica deliberately added or left in if it's a smooth powder without chunks. At least that's the usual anti caking agent for table salt. That Vienna university group could probably repeat the study with silica, microplastics or glass fibers from the holds, but I don't think they would be able to make as strong of a case for those.

>>76340578
You could join an irl community. It's like a discord server but the server is located in a specific place, like a climbing gym, or an MMA gym, or a dance studio. Instead of gamer tags people use their real names. And the games don't use keyboards and mice. There's usually tutorials and people are generally pretty nice to the newbies.