Mountaineering Training | Fit To Climb: Week 2

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Mountaineering Training | Fit To Climb: Week 2

Posted by: | February 11, 2013
Categories: *Mountaineering Fitness & Training

Congratulations on last week’s training, you are off to a great start! How does your body feel after seven practice sessions of the Daily Dozen?

The purpose of this week’s training is to continue to practice the Daily Dozen and to add a weekend hike to round things out. Choose an easy or moderate goal for the first hike.

This is the end of the adaptation phase. Next week is the beginning of the foundation phase.

Fit to Climb: Week 2 Schedule

DAY	WORKOUT	TOTAL TIME	DIFFICULTY
1	Daily Dozen	12 min.	Recovery
2	Daily Dozen + 40 Minute Hike	52 min.	Medium
3	Daily Dozen / Rest	12 min.	Recovery
4	Daily Dozen + 40 Minute Hike	52 min.	Medium
5	Daily Dozen / Rest	12 min.	Recovery
6	Daily Dozen + 2 Hour Hike	132 min.	Medium
7	Rest	-	Recovery
	Total	4 hrs 44 mins

-John Colver

John Colver is a longtime climber, former mountain guide, and certified personal trainer with the American Council of Exercise. Colver introduced outdoor fitness classes to athletic clubs throughout the greater Puget Sound region before creating his adventX brand. Currently, adventX leads training programs in Seattle and Colver presents clinics on outdoor fitness at companies such as Microsoft, Boeing, the American Lung Association, and REI. Colver lives in Seattle, and is working on his second book, Fit to Climb - a 16 week Mount Rainier Fitness Program.

Questions? Comments? Share your thoughts with John and other readers on the RMI Blog!

RMI Climbers on the Emmons Shoulder, Mt. Rainier.

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Comments

There are answers to your questions on the most recent post on Mountaineering Training found here:

http://www.rmiguides.com/blog/2013/02/28/mountaineering_training_answers_to_common_questions_from_fit_to_climb

Thanks for voicing your questions!

Posted by: Linden Mallory on 2/28/2013 at 12:42 pm

Thanks for all of the comments. We’ve forwarded them to John for specific review and will post his replies soon!
- The RMI Team

Posted by: RMI Expeditions on 2/25/2013 at 1:11 pm

John, if you’re limited to find the terrain to do 40min hikes, there is an array of things you can do. Basically, you know that aerobic benefits do not start to happen unless you go over certain length of time exercising. With that, having that time to exercise, you can certainly try to mimic any climbing/hiking activity over that period of time at the gym. No fixed inclines or speeds, but just picture yourself on the trails. You can alternate steeper inclines on the treadmill at lower speeds with flatter ones at a higher pace. You can switch from day to day to the stairmaster and even put a pack on with some weight! The best to get in shape for a climb is to provide a lot of variety on your workouts, juts like mountain woudl do; not always the same angle, not always the same speed, not always the same load. Hope it helps.

Posted by: Elías de Andrés on 2/22/2013 at 12:08 pm

I also missed the specifics for the 40 minute stair interval training. Could you resend it? Thanks.

Posted by: Linda McMillan on 2/20/2013 at 6:56 am

John: thanks for a great program! Perhaps I missed it: what are the details for the 40 minute stair interval training?

Posted by: Mark Hayden on 2/20/2013 at 5:27 am

I second Mr Janssen’s request. Glad he was brave enough to ask first!

Posted by: Dean Dunham on 2/19/2013 at 2:14 pm

Any pictures to help me understand this “Turkish Get UP”?

Posted by: Paul Janssen on 2/19/2013 at 1:23 am

John,I’m trying to follow along with your training program because I’m doing Rainier in July but since I live in the suburbs and work during the week I can’t get out to do 40 “hikes” during the week. Could you suggest more specific ideas like a workout on a treadmill at a certain speed and incline?? THX Dave

Posted by: Dave Brounstein on 2/18/2013 at 8:21 am

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