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Training at work...... 17-Oct-2007 At 5:49:45 PM tmarsh

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On 17/10/2007 nmonteith wrote:
>On 17/10/2007 dalai wrote:
>>Use your time at work for recovery and train properly before or after
>>work.
>
>Good advice that seems to be flying over everyones head....

Neil, I thought you used your time at work to write guidebook description, upload photos and to hang out on climbing forums. Is that called 'recovery' now?

Dalai's advice is spot on. Although I can imagine it's being said with the slightly wistful tone of someone who suffers from chronic overuse injuries and who should have heeded that advice 10 years ago but didn't and is now a crumbling wreck of his former self.

The bottom line is that overuse injuries are far easier to prevent than they are to treat. If you can avoid getting them in the first place by not doing things like relentlessly pumping a gripmaster or doing doorframe chinups, then you're doing better than the sad older climbers who can't so much as turn a doorknob without wincing.