I had for many years some small boat buoys in my room. One day I thought the could be used for training my grip strength, so I tied then to a rope from my clothes line and tried them, impressively it works perfectly. Cheaper and better impossible!!
I have used the window ledge from the first floor as a hangboard, and I used a wooden plank to limit how far my fingers can get on that edge!! Fast and easy adjustable fingerboard😜.
I’ve had a boy lying around in the house for about 17 years and never really found a use for it. At the start of lockdown this boy activated it’s “motivational” mode! What an amazing bit of kit this has turned out to be. It’s had me running, pistol squatting, doing pull ups, press ups and even attempting handstands. I’m really going to miss it when it heads off to uni, though it will be good to find food in the fridge again...
Best unknown household item: wine bottle cork. Place on a tabletop, roll/press down along the length of your forearm to massage the flexor muscles. Super effective to relieve pump and tight forearms. More portable and cheaper than an arm-aid too!
Beer helped me a lot in my progression!!! When you buy 4 bottles of beer here in Belgium, they are packed with a piece of cardbord that holds them together at the bottle cap. In the middle, there is a hole to grab the pack, which makes it a perfect weighted mono pocket trainer for those projects full of mono's. When not used that way, I put the bottles in a backpack to add weight while fingerboarding, as I don't own weights. It also keeps me motivated to see my reward during the whole session :p
My computer. To watch UA-cam videos. Helps for inspiration and motivation to train during yet another lockdown. So thank you to make these times more bareable!
A vertical door frame to train my pinch strength by leaning backward. Watch out for slipery hands or you will fall on your back or on the next item behind you... Speeking from experience !
well... I know that this is not an easy thing to get your hands on... But my best home work out item is actually buying an old house. The house itself has a lot of small things that had to be fixed, so just by buying the house and fixing things every evening, I dropped 9 kg within a month! Nice. I didn't even had to change my eating habits at all, just keeping busy with small jobs every day!
We built our own 8 foot by 8 foot home wall to climb on and keep our finger strength up with. We also invested in gymnastic rings which we attached to our home wall to train more power. I can easily say that the gymnastic rings have been hands down the best fitness investment I've ever made, the sheer efficacy you get from using them is incredibly.
Noting beats opening tightly closed jars twice per day. Best forearms and biceps workout I've ever had! And the food inside is the best motivator and reward!
A backpack has been soooo useful for me. You can fill it up with anything and if works just like a weighted vest. It’s something so simple that can boost your home workouts. I have been using them mostly for exercises on a pull up bar and rings, but it would be really useful for fingerboarding, as well as other body weight floor exercises!
Widemouth 32oz Nalgenes filled with water to the 30oz weigh 1kg, to the lid tether weigh 2.5lbs, and you have twenty sitting around the house. Use one for threading the needle, rotator cuff and shoulder mobility, and more, or sling em together for weighted pullups and dips or grab one for pinch training and wrist curls and wide wrist rolls. Sand weighs about 30% more.
My trick for training in lockdown is to buy a lot of six packs of waters. You can vary on grip position number of finger, number of stairs you walk with the load. Also when you finally have more water than you can drink in the next months you can help the older neighbours and carry their water up the stairs too. So it seems you are a nice guy but you´re just doing it for the training load.
What a nice workout for the lockdown! Keep the power up for the better times in some weeks and come back stronger on the rock, crashing the projects! I wish you and the community a big output from that time. At the moment I think we all learn how much we all appreciate climbing in the nature or even in the gym!
Since we're back in lockdown here in France, I rediscovered the usefullness of a good old broomstick for shoulders mobility and stretching. Simple and efficient, and as a bonus, apart from becoming the perfect housekeeper, even if I can't boulder V0 when I get back out there I still get to have a shot at Tokyo 2021...in curling!
I’ve taken a 5 gallon/18.92 liters bucket with a handle and filled it to the top with rice. Good for body weight exercises like squats, arm exercises like rows, weighted fingerboard hangs, and pinch block exercises. You can take out and add rice based on the weight you need. However, I only have a baking scale at home so changing the weight is a tedious process. 😂 Thanks for the videos. They’re helping me stay sane, motivated, and fit!
Having us compete for likes, it's really survival of the fittest ;). The most useful thing for me has been making sure to eat properly to maintain energy, improve recovery, and maintain a healthy climbing weight. Nutrition is the unsung hero of quarantine
Honestly just a broom handle. It's a bit rogue but you can use it for shoulder, upper back, and wrist mobility as well as exercise like stick rows and all sorts of core training. On the stick rows you go from a row into a push not unlike an easier campus. Put it between two chairs or stools for an Australian Pull Up/ Front Lever progressions, Body weight Tricep Extensions, Inverse Leg Extensions. All you need is a stick for a good back workout.
There are some wooden beams that go across the ceiling of my garage that I am able to hang on and maybe use to make some roof circuits. Flash board would be nice, the only flash I have is the flash pump on my project after not warming up properly.
I've definitely love using my backpack filled with waterbottles and other stuff as a weight for different exercises. I can fill it to the brim to add a decent amount of weight to add a little bit more difficulty to pullups because I don't have heavy weights at home, and I can also use it just half filled as a dumbell alternative in some exercises. It's not the best for every exercise, but when I want to add weight, it's a good all-rounder
I found out that the gap between my desk and my dresser was big enough (and stable enough) for me to practice hand jamming and crack climbing! I worked on feet first crack climbing and my swimming technique and it helped me make a foot jamming beta on an outdoor V5 that I'm not sure had ever been used as well as a send up my first off-width highball boulder. Super happy to be able to do that!
Cast iron skillet is the one! Working from home finally gives me the time to cook lunch everyday. Serving the food from the skillet to the plate and washing the heavy pan daily is a great high intensity wrist training. No more wrist pain!!!
My favorite way to train my crimp strength at home has been to use the door frames throughout the house like a fingerboard. As a bonus, I will take two large books and pinch them together with one hand for several minutes to train my pinch grip!
This month has been hard for me mental health wise so this weekly exercise routine has really helped me out and got me back in the swing of things even when I didn’t think it was possible, I’ve been using the cupboards as finger boards which are surprisingly good for the job, I’m also a much better climber because of it so thank you so much Lattice
Here we go again! Thanks Tom for the progression, it has been very useful and it keeps me motivated for the future re-opening. We are still struggling at home without any possibility of going out here in France. Crags are waiting for us, strong and mentally prepared! As always, keep up the good work you do guys! Cheers.
I live in the attic and there is a free-standing ladder to my room. So naturally ever since my gym closed I've started climbing to my room on the backside of my ladder. And its actually quite cool: It has a decent amount of overhang and you need some amount of technique (e.g. toehooks) to get up. So in addition to your videos this is my training for now and it really helps keeping me sane. But obviously I would really love a Flash Board, as it probably is a more suitable way to ready myself for the new season.
Rolled up scarf! I recently ditching my so-called "ergonomic" memory foam pillow, and swapping it for a rolled up scarf placed under the neck (to gently support neck during back-sleeping). This has resulted in a huge and rapid improvement in chronic upper back pain that's plagued me all year and was preventing proper training (especially for front levers). Far more effective than months of trips to the physio and cheques to the osteopath. Hope someone out there finds this useful info!
Pefect item for working out pull-ups as well as wrist strength is the kitchen rolling pin. Knot it on to the pull up bar and off you go. Additionally you can use it for roll-outs to train the core.
Favourite piece of gear during lockdown? A PVC pipe hands down. Great for Myofascial Release making for a Black Roll substitute better than the original. It's handy for tricep pushdowns and pullovers with resistance bands attached aswell.
As many places sold out of weights and to find something at home similar I used old paint cans as weights, adjusting the weight by adding/removing stones
I've found that using camping sized water jugs- six gallons each- to be useful for weighted hangs and weighted pullups. You just have to fill them with the correct amount of water to reach the desired amount of weight.
Small ladder - wedged between tree branches it’s a pull up bar and monkey bar ladder walk; propped up against wall or tree with base blocked it’s now angled holds/rung walk hanging under it and also a hanging core curl for double/single leg foot placements. These are the climb-specific exercises. There are also numerous agility exercises and variations with the ladder in the ground, and weights variations of sand/rice bags or water containers are attached to the ends. Tie theraband to it when wedged and there’s cable machine options....
I've been using my thru hiking tent as a weight to make core exercises harder! Getting a bit easy now though, so maybe I should start using a family tent?!
Since I started climbing, I've found the vertical (not the evergreen horizontal) part of the doorframe super useful: you stand within the doorframe, facing the side, hold the edge of the doorframerise adjusting the depth, rise one leg and lean towards the side (the same side or the opposite) - I've used them for lock-offs and 1-arm pull-ups. Try it and let me know!
The TABLE is perfect. You can use it immediately after work. You can do easy pull-ups, doing finger blocks and also train your toe-hook and heel-hook power. Just be careful to have stable one and mind you monitor 😜
Another great video, Tom! The must useful household item this year is by far the computer. This probably goes without saying, but having Lattice and other great channels like Saturno Movement has really been a life saver during lock down. The Lattice customised training plan is definitely on the top of this years Christmas wish list!
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Fantastic series, I enjoy doing these workouts that simulate climbing gym really well in my opinion. Thank you Lattice. The item that has helped me is my cast iron skillet that I’ve been using for elbow tendonitis rehab exercises
I'd like to see Magnus Mitbø try this workout! I've hooked my pinch block to my dog's tug-of-war rope. While working from home, I'm getting huge volumes of pinch practice in!
So, regardless of the giveaway: I've been doing these for the past three weeks now and usually I only do some hangboard and pull up work for maximum strength at home. I get really pumped by these long 30 second hangs even though I usually train shorter hangs at 135% body weight. A side effect that I seem to notice that I suddenly blast through my strength work on the finger board. I just added an additional plate (2.5kg) today and still completed my normal protocol. I think I'll definitely keep a routine like this after gyms open up again, at least once a week.
During the first lockdown I had no pull-up bar so I used top of the door jamb which had quite comfortable large “crimp” to do pull ups and hags on and as my weight I attached 2x 6packs of beer to my harness and it work super well!
Milk jugs are a classic for weighted pull-ups!! By the end of quarantine I had like 3 gallons of weight hanging off my harness for pull-ups and frenchies haha
Zoom for me is the most underrated thing for training at home. Being able to train with my friends without actually meeting them is what keeps me going and mentally healthy. The workout can pretty much be done with just your own body and maybe a pull-up bar.
What has been really useful for my during my lockdown workouts is using a really old mechanical bathroom scale to measure the pulling strength during one arm isometrics. Sure you can easily do it without it, BUT it's a really nice tool to track progress :) p.s. I didn't own it before lockdown, I just happened to find it in a giveaway box on the street exactly when I needed it lol
My favorit is a 5L water bucket witch is attachet to a PVC pipe with a cord. It is easy to change the load (and also precise), and I found it great for forearms. In a steanding position, my hands in front of me, I twist it up from the ground, and back. (for several times :)
Large pop/soft-drink bottles, especially the 3L ones are great for wide hand grid stuff like slopers. Use like a pinch block, if too easy, fill it with gravel rather than water
Towels are really useful. I've been using one over my bar for offset pull-ups, a cool floor exercise where I lie on my front with arms out in front of me and out to the sides a bit pulling a towel tight and then bringing it in to the chest without letting it tough the floor, and (strange one this) squeezing water from a small towel with one hand. Start at one corner, squeeze, get a bit more in your hand, repeat until hand full! You wouldn't believe the pump.
Great Vid again. Can´t wait for next week. I don´t know if kids count as household items, but push ups with a 9 year old pal sittin on myself got me strong as hell!
My remote of course - switching through all kind of different climbing training videos:D finally working on my second pull up, in march i couldn't do one 😁💪
I found my 2 protine bottles the most useful as I would shake them on my rest times and warm ups to keep my arms pumped and it also ensured my protine levels have been up. 😃
Surprisingly, my varies size water bottle have been great training tools. I can easily change the intensity for my needs. Acts as weights and can be use for forearm extensor muscle training as well!
During the querentine since I was not able to do any climbing I did loads og finguerbording and an unexpected item I started useing was the rolling pin I use for pizza to massage my own forearm. This was quite useful for fast recovery (at least for me), and I am still usung this technique now that i am climbing again.
A countertop corner! Use it for core exercises (holding myself up with arms and doing tucks or front raises), and even lower back traction when that gets tight from sitting around lol
If you don’t have equipment you can visit the local middle school playground. Most have bars of various heights to run these and other exercises. Perfect for a travel size fingerboard too!
Since I'm stuck in my hostel in university, I've been using the top of the public shower doorframe since it's open at the top. Since I don't have a pull up bar or a fingerboard, it's a great alternative, but gotta make sure it's dry or you'll fall
Actually my best "house tool" was sleeping: as I'm working from home, I don't have to go to the office (1h commit). Having a proper sleep makes me feel more focused and I got good rest before each training session!
Good luck to whomever wins the board, I've got a fixed one in my garage where it's now 9c, so having a flexible one wouldn't hurt, but I can do without :) Will try this level tomorrow, I fear that I won't be able to complete it just yet.
Proud dad of an old barrow wheel stripped from its tire as a pulley, and an ancient tennis ball bucket filled with water as a counter-weight, my perfect one armer machine.
Ahah, for me it was the small table that I use as a bench for my barbell exercises. That and chairs obviously but I knew about them already for bodyweight workouts. The MVP is my concrete ceiling though, that reliably holds my pull up bar and homemade training board !
Regular, old, rubber bands. Put 2 or 3 around your fingers, open your hand, and work those antagonist finger muscles. Avoid pulley injuries from all the at-home hangboarding.
My fire-extinguisher is the heaviest object I can squeeze inside my backpack to do weighted hangs/pulls. I hope it'll never trigger by mistake while training!
The best thing i did was using old containers like milk boat and beans can and using the for weight as 1 liter of water is around 1kg so when you have lots of them it adds up. But the best bit about it is you can eat the beans after your work out as reward you just need to make sure you don't eat all the bean you have as there won't be any to use as weight
Missed the boat on the thing but.. CAMPING WATER JUGS! Instead of weights. I’m in a tiny apartment, I don’t have room for weights, but Ive got a few water jugs and can put whatever weight in them I want!
One of the exercises I do and only need a straight wall are the Wall Sits. I always do them while brushing my teeth. The only tissue that do not thank is the tooth enamel if you keep going longer and longer... :D
i realized that my vacuum cleaner has a hold that just feels like a big climbing jug ^^ but you can vary the grip position on it so it can feel like a crimp as well .. upsidedown fingerboard really 😁 be careful with not dropping it, i definitely don't wanna be the reason why vacuum cleaner sells are exploding after lockdown ;)
I bend beer bottle lids with one hand. It is a very challenging workout since you have to be pretty quick with the drinking, if you want to get the best of it :-)
Would you say that this workout can be combined with a regular hangboard training? If so, would you do it before or after this workout or maybe on the 'rest days' inbetween the workouts?
I guess my hoarding tendencies really came through for me during lock down when I found four old brake rotors that I had kept after putting new ones on my car. They ended up working great as added weight. One plus about being on lock down is that no one could see how ridiculous I looked covered in rust-colored brake dust and chalk with a bunch of old car parts hanging from my waist...
Tupperware Tub!! The most useful thing that I’ve been using is a Tupperware Tub screwed to a piece of wood to hold my phone whilst completing the Crimpd Workouts 😉 💪🏼😁👍🏼. Indispensable! 😉
It's been almost a year now, I still do this workout sometimes and I still hate it when Tom tells me to be "not totally relaxed" during the hardest part ;-)
I open a door, place my feet one in each side of it, pinch the edge of the door with one arm, lean back with my hand in a 90 degrees lock position and stay there creating an isometric exercise with an amazing pump in my forearm because of the pinch grip.
I had for many years some small boat buoys in my room. One day I thought the could be used for training my grip strength, so I tied then to a rope from my clothes line and tried them, impressively it works perfectly. Cheaper and better impossible!!
good idea!!!
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Awesome idea!
The best bit of gear I found was bicycle inner tubes. Awesome resistance band and voodoo floss substitute.
I entirely agree!
Totally agree!
great advice that i will be sure to follow !
i love voodoo floss
great find 💯
I have used the window ledge from the first floor as a hangboard, and I used a wooden plank to limit how far my fingers can get on that edge!! Fast and easy adjustable fingerboard😜.
That's clever! Definitely will give it a try.
Amazing! Wow!
Good job!
Very useful pitxu
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I’ve had a boy lying around in the house for about 17 years and never really found a use for it. At the start of lockdown this boy activated it’s “motivational” mode! What an amazing bit of kit this has turned out to be. It’s had me running, pistol squatting, doing pull ups, press ups and even attempting handstands. I’m really going to miss it when it heads off to uni, though it will be good to find food in the fridge again...
I have been able to do forearm workouts with water bottles and a mug for more specific finger training (it works I swear)
Best unknown household item: wine bottle cork. Place on a tabletop, roll/press down along the length of your forearm to massage the flexor muscles. Super effective to relieve pump and tight forearms. More portable and cheaper than an arm-aid too!
Beer helped me a lot in my progression!!!
When you buy 4 bottles of beer here in Belgium, they are packed with a piece of cardbord that holds them together at the bottle cap. In the middle, there is a hole to grab the pack, which makes it a perfect weighted mono pocket trainer for those projects full of mono's. When not used that way, I put the bottles in a backpack to add weight while fingerboarding, as I don't own weights. It also keeps me motivated to see my reward during the whole session :p
I use the combination of 2 Tupperware lids and the living room carpet to make sliders workouts and they work perfect!
My computer. To watch UA-cam videos. Helps for inspiration and motivation to train during yet another lockdown. So thank you to make these times more bareable!
A vertical door frame to train my pinch strength by leaning backward. Watch out for slipery hands or you will fall on your back or on the next item behind you... Speeking from experience !
I find the trim around the door is always good for a quick hang session. Thanks for another great work out.
well... I know that this is not an easy thing to get your hands on... But my best home work out item is actually buying an old house. The house itself has a lot of small things that had to be fixed, so just by buying the house and fixing things every evening, I dropped 9 kg within a month! Nice. I didn't even had to change my eating habits at all, just keeping busy with small jobs every day!
We built our own 8 foot by 8 foot home wall to climb on and keep our finger strength up with. We also invested in gymnastic rings which we attached to our home wall to train more power. I can easily say that the gymnastic rings have been hands down the best fitness investment I've ever made, the sheer efficacy you get from using them is incredibly.
Our wall has been amazing for training!
Noting beats opening tightly closed jars twice per day. Best forearms and biceps workout I've ever had! And the food inside is the best motivator and reward!
A backpack has been soooo useful for me. You can fill it up with anything and if works just like a weighted vest. It’s something so simple that can boost your home workouts. I have been using them mostly for exercises on a pull up bar and rings, but it would be really useful for fingerboarding, as well as other body weight floor exercises!
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Towels! Around the bar and table legs, challenging on the grip and keeps my hands dry!!
Widemouth 32oz Nalgenes filled with water to the 30oz weigh 1kg, to the lid tether weigh 2.5lbs, and you have twenty sitting around the house. Use one for threading the needle, rotator cuff and shoulder mobility, and more, or sling em together for weighted pullups and dips or grab one for pinch training and wrist curls and wide wrist rolls.
Sand weighs about 30% more.
My trick for training in lockdown is to buy a lot of six packs of waters. You can vary on grip position number of finger, number of stairs you walk with the load. Also when you finally have more water than you can drink in the next months you can help the older neighbours and carry their water up the stairs too. So it seems you are a nice guy but you´re just doing it for the training load.
What a nice workout for the lockdown! Keep the power up for the better times in some weeks and come back stronger on the rock, crashing the projects! I wish you and the community a big output from that time. At the moment I think we all learn how much we all appreciate climbing in the nature or even in the gym!
Since we're back in lockdown here in France, I rediscovered the usefullness of a good old broomstick for shoulders mobility and stretching. Simple and efficient, and as a bonus, apart from becoming the perfect housekeeper, even if I can't boulder V0 when I get back out there I still get to have a shot at Tokyo 2021...in curling!
You nailed it! I just used a broom handle for shoulder exercises for the first time after reading this - amazing! Really nice post workout. Cheers!
I’ve taken a 5 gallon/18.92 liters bucket with a handle and filled it to the top with rice. Good for body weight exercises like squats, arm exercises like rows, weighted fingerboard hangs, and pinch block exercises. You can take out and add rice based on the weight you need. However, I only have a baking scale at home so changing the weight is a tedious process. 😂 Thanks for the videos. They’re helping me stay sane, motivated, and fit!
Having us compete for likes, it's really survival of the fittest ;). The most useful thing for me has been making sure to eat properly to maintain energy, improve recovery, and maintain a healthy climbing weight. Nutrition is the unsung hero of quarantine
hahhaha, it's all about that :-D
Honestly just a broom handle. It's a bit rogue but you can use it for shoulder, upper back, and wrist mobility as well as exercise like stick rows and all sorts of core training. On the stick rows you go from a row into a push not unlike an easier campus. Put it between two chairs or stools for an Australian Pull Up/ Front Lever progressions, Body weight Tricep Extensions, Inverse Leg Extensions.
All you need is a stick for a good back workout.
There are some wooden beams that go across the ceiling of my garage that I am able to hang on and maybe use to make some roof circuits. Flash board would be nice, the only flash I have is the flash pump on my project after not warming up properly.
I've been able to use a bed sheet jammed in a closed door as a replacement for rings/TRX
I've definitely love using my backpack filled with waterbottles and other stuff as a weight for different exercises. I can fill it to the brim to add a decent amount of weight to add a little bit more difficulty to pullups because I don't have heavy weights at home, and I can also use it just half filled as a dumbell alternative in some exercises. It's not the best for every exercise, but when I want to add weight, it's a good all-rounder
I found out that the gap between my desk and my dresser was big enough (and stable enough) for me to practice hand jamming and crack climbing! I worked on feet first crack climbing and my swimming technique and it helped me make a foot jamming beta on an outdoor V5 that I'm not sure had ever been used as well as a send up my first off-width highball boulder. Super happy to be able to do that!
Cast iron skillet is the one! Working from home finally gives me the time to cook lunch everyday. Serving the food from the skillet to the plate and washing the heavy pan daily is a great high intensity wrist training. No more wrist pain!!!
My favorite way to train my crimp strength at home has been to use the door frames throughout the house like a fingerboard. As a bonus, I will take two large books and pinch them together with one hand for several minutes to train my pinch grip!
This month has been hard for me mental health wise so this weekly exercise routine has really helped me out and got me back in the swing of things even when I didn’t think it was possible, I’ve been using the cupboards as finger boards which are surprisingly good for the job, I’m also a much better climber because of it so thank you so much Lattice
Here we go again! Thanks Tom for the progression, it has been very useful and it keeps me motivated for the future re-opening. We are still struggling at home without any possibility of going out here in France. Crags are waiting for us, strong and mentally prepared! As always, keep up the good work you do guys! Cheers.
I live in the attic and there is a free-standing ladder to my room. So naturally ever since my gym closed I've started climbing to my room on the backside of my ladder. And its actually quite cool: It has a decent amount of overhang and you need some amount of technique (e.g. toehooks) to get up. So in addition to your videos this is my training for now and it really helps keeping me sane. But obviously I would really love a Flash Board, as it probably is a more suitable way to ready myself for the new season.
Rolled up scarf! I recently ditching my so-called "ergonomic" memory foam pillow, and swapping it for a rolled up scarf placed under the neck (to gently support neck during back-sleeping). This has resulted in a huge and rapid improvement in chronic upper back pain that's plagued me all year and was preventing proper training (especially for front levers). Far more effective than months of trips to the physio and cheques to the osteopath. Hope someone out there finds this useful info!
Pefect item for working out pull-ups as well as wrist strength is the kitchen rolling pin. Knot it on to the pull up bar and off you go.
Additionally you can use it for roll-outs to train the core.
Favourite piece of gear during lockdown? A PVC pipe hands down. Great for Myofascial Release making for a Black Roll substitute better than the original. It's handy for tricep pushdowns and pullovers with resistance bands attached aswell.
As many places sold out of weights and to find something at home similar I used old paint cans as weights, adjusting the weight by adding/removing stones
I've found that using camping sized water jugs- six gallons each- to be useful for weighted hangs and weighted pullups. You just have to fill them with the correct amount of water to reach the desired amount of weight.
Small ladder - wedged between tree branches it’s a pull up bar and monkey bar ladder walk; propped up against wall or tree with base blocked it’s now angled holds/rung walk hanging under it and also a hanging core curl for double/single leg foot placements. These are the climb-specific exercises. There are also numerous agility exercises and variations with the ladder in the ground, and weights variations of sand/rice bags or water containers are attached to the ends. Tie theraband to it when wedged and there’s cable machine options....
The tension I feel to go back to the crag fits the Fingerboard perfectly ;) Would love to warm up on this badboy next time when going climbing
I've been using my thru hiking tent as a weight to make core exercises harder! Getting a bit easy now though, so maybe I should start using a family tent?!
Since I started climbing, I've found the vertical (not the evergreen horizontal) part of the doorframe super useful: you stand within the doorframe, facing the side, hold the edge of the doorframerise adjusting the depth, rise one leg and lean towards the side (the same side or the opposite) - I've used them for lock-offs and 1-arm pull-ups. Try it and let me know!
The TABLE is perfect. You can use it immediately after work. You can do easy pull-ups, doing finger blocks and also train your toe-hook and heel-hook power. Just be careful to have stable one and mind you monitor 😜
Another great video, Tom! The must useful household item this year is by far the computer. This probably goes without saying, but having Lattice and other great channels like Saturno Movement has really been a life saver during lock down. The Lattice customised training plan is definitely on the top of this years Christmas wish list!
Fantastic series, I enjoy doing these workouts that simulate climbing gym really well in my opinion. Thank you Lattice. The item that has helped me is my cast iron skillet that I’ve been using for elbow tendonitis rehab exercises
The psychological burden of staying at home instead of climbing at the gym or a crag is an awesome tool for weighted training...
The most useful training implement is the dog! This moving weighted vest has a real added training element to squats and sit ups.
I'd like to see Magnus Mitbø try this workout!
I've hooked my pinch block to my dog's tug-of-war rope. While working from home, I'm getting huge volumes of pinch practice in!
So, regardless of the giveaway: I've been doing these for the past three weeks now and usually I only do some hangboard and pull up work for maximum strength at home. I get really pumped by these long 30 second hangs even though I usually train shorter hangs at 135% body weight.
A side effect that I seem to notice that I suddenly blast through my strength work on the finger board. I just added an additional plate (2.5kg) today and still completed my normal protocol.
I think I'll definitely keep a routine like this after gyms open up again, at least once a week.
Loving these videos. Doing them with my 10 year old in our home gym. So, I guess the most useful item is our gym!
During the first lockdown I had no pull-up bar so I used top of the door jamb which had quite comfortable large “crimp” to do pull ups and hags on and as my weight I attached 2x 6packs of beer to my harness and it work super well!
Milk jugs are a classic for weighted pull-ups!! By the end of quarantine I had like 3 gallons of weight hanging off my harness for pull-ups and frenchies haha
Zoom for me is the most underrated thing for training at home.
Being able to train with my friends without actually meeting them is what keeps me going and mentally healthy.
The workout can pretty much be done with just your own body and maybe a pull-up bar.
What has been really useful for my during my lockdown workouts is using a really old mechanical bathroom scale to measure the pulling strength during one arm isometrics. Sure you can easily do it without it, BUT it's a really nice tool to track progress :)
p.s. I didn't own it before lockdown, I just happened to find it in a giveaway box on the street exactly when I needed it lol
I use a full Nalgene bottle for reverse wrist curls and shoulder raises! The width of the bottle helps to get an extra pinch/stretch element in too.
My favorit is a 5L water bucket witch is attachet to a PVC pipe with a cord. It is easy to change the load (and also precise), and I found it great for forearms. In a steanding position, my hands in front of me, I twist it up from the ground, and back. (for several times :)
I discovered that my cold swiming pool in winter has been a great tool for mental training ! All in the head !
Large pop/soft-drink bottles, especially the 3L ones are great for wide hand grid stuff like slopers. Use like a pinch block, if too easy, fill it with gravel rather than water
Towels are really useful. I've been using one over my bar for offset pull-ups, a cool floor exercise where I lie on my front with arms out in front of me and out to the sides a bit pulling a towel tight and then bringing it in to the chest without letting it tough the floor, and (strange one this) squeezing water from a small towel with one hand. Start at one corner, squeeze, get a bit more in your hand, repeat until hand full! You wouldn't believe the pump.
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Great Vid again. Can´t wait for next week. I don´t know if kids count as household items, but push ups with a 9 year old pal sittin on myself got me strong as hell!
My remote of course - switching through all kind of different climbing training videos:D finally working on my second pull up, in march i couldn't do one 😁💪
I found my 2 protine bottles the most useful as I would shake them on my rest times and warm ups to keep my arms pumped and it also ensured my protine levels have been up. 😃
Surprisingly, my varies size water bottle have been great training tools. I can easily change the intensity for my needs.
Acts as weights and can be use for forearm extensor muscle training as well!
A saw. Started making holds from scrap wood for finger/grip/hang training.
A door frame! The best replacement for a fingerboard, especially in older buildings where you can find so many different "depths" of the grip. :-D
During the querentine since I was not able to do any climbing I did loads og finguerbording and an unexpected item I started useing was the rolling pin I use for pizza to massage my own forearm. This was quite useful for fast recovery (at least for me), and I am still usung this technique now that i am climbing again.
A countertop corner! Use it for core exercises (holding myself up with arms and doing tucks or front raises), and even lower back traction when that gets tight from sitting around lol
If you don’t have equipment you can visit the local middle school playground. Most have bars of various heights to run these and other exercises. Perfect for a travel size fingerboard too!
Since I'm stuck in my hostel in university, I've been using the top of the public shower doorframe since it's open at the top. Since I don't have a pull up bar or a fingerboard, it's a great alternative, but gotta make sure it's dry or you'll fall
Books - great as yoga blocks for stretching, workout, small weights in pinch grip, and also for the book balance challenge...
I made a wrist wrench. It’s great for training sloper strength. It used by arm wrestlers and we all k ow they have very strong wrists.
Actually my best "house tool" was sleeping: as I'm working from home, I don't have to go to the office (1h commit). Having a proper sleep makes me feel more focused and I got good rest before each training session!
Good luck to whomever wins the board, I've got a fixed one in my garage where it's now 9c, so having a flexible one wouldn't hurt, but I can do without :)
Will try this level tomorrow, I fear that I won't be able to complete it just yet.
Ive been using my wardrobe top to do hangs from. Theres a small ledge that i can either grip round or test my finger strength on.
Proud dad of an old barrow wheel stripped from its tire as a pulley, and an ancient tennis ball bucket filled with water as a counter-weight, my perfect one armer machine.
Perhaps not a household item in everyone's home, but baoding balls have really helped soothe/stretch my fingers post workout.
Ahah, for me it was the small table that I use as a bench for my barbell exercises. That and chairs obviously but I knew about them already for bodyweight workouts. The MVP is my concrete ceiling though, that reliably holds my pull up bar and homemade
training board !
Regular, old, rubber bands. Put 2 or 3 around your fingers, open your hand, and work those antagonist finger muscles. Avoid pulley injuries from all the at-home hangboarding.
netherlands back into lockdown.... thanks a lot for helping me to keep motivated!
Locked back in Italy I found concrete bags (25kg) and wood pellets (15kg) to use as weights
My fire-extinguisher is the heaviest object I can squeeze inside my backpack to do weighted hangs/pulls. I hope it'll never trigger by mistake while training!
The most usefull and unsung household item is definitely the fingerboard i bought recently.
I've been using a 10L water jug to do finger training. It's easy to adjust the weight and i can combine it with other things with strings and pulleys.
gotta be that chopping board - tough balance pushups on the thing edge!
The best thing i did was using old containers like milk boat and beans can and using the for weight as 1 liter of water is around 1kg so when you have lots of them it adds up. But the best bit about it is you can eat the beans after your work out as reward you just need to make sure you don't eat all the bean you have as there won't be any to use as weight
Our bathroom's doorframe for hanging and pull ups! Been working towards occupying the bathroom for as long as my female roommates haha
Missed the boat on the thing but.. CAMPING WATER JUGS! Instead of weights. I’m in a tiny apartment, I don’t have room for weights, but Ive got a few water jugs and can put whatever weight in them I want!
I did level 1 and level 3 back to back! WOuld you recommend that?
Not normally! Build up nice and slow :-)
One of the exercises I do and only need a straight wall are the Wall Sits. I always do them while brushing my teeth. The only tissue that do not thank is the tooth enamel if you keep going longer and longer... :D
i realized that my vacuum cleaner has a hold that just feels like a big climbing jug ^^ but you can vary the grip position on it so it can feel like a crimp as well .. upsidedown fingerboard really 😁 be careful with not dropping it, i definitely don't wanna be the reason why vacuum cleaner sells are exploding after lockdown ;)
I bend beer bottle lids with one hand. It is a very challenging workout since you have to be pretty quick with the drinking, if you want to get the best of it :-)
Would you say that this workout can be combined with a regular hangboard training? If so, would you do it before or after this workout or maybe on the 'rest days' inbetween the workouts?
I love that you're always doing something silly with your hair and you NEVER acknowledge it XD
I think it's really just my broomstick which I use for my warmup and flexibility training now :D
I guess my hoarding tendencies really came through for me during lock down when I found four old brake rotors that I had kept after putting new ones on my car. They ended up working great as added weight. One plus about being on lock down is that no one could see how ridiculous I looked covered in rust-colored brake dust and chalk with a bunch of old car parts hanging from my waist...
Tupperware Tub!! The most useful thing that I’ve been using is a Tupperware Tub screwed to a piece of wood to hold my phone whilst completing the Crimpd Workouts 😉 💪🏼😁👍🏼. Indispensable! 😉
For weighted pullups i was lacking weights (they are so expensive). I found old paint buckets in the basement which worked fine for me.
I’ve been using my neighbors stone fence as a gym wall. Good for crimps and precise feet work. Hope I won’t get caught though...
Y’all should do a video on climbing gym etiquette video, with a lot of new climbers getting into the sport it would be really helpful
It's been almost a year now, I still do this workout sometimes and I still hate it when Tom tells me to be "not totally relaxed" during the hardest part ;-)
I open a door, place my feet one in each side of it, pinch the edge of the door with one arm, lean back with my hand in a 90 degrees lock position and stay there creating an isometric exercise with an amazing pump in my forearm because of the pinch grip.