Finally reached the end of a 12-week cut having dropped 7.2kg.

I’m excited to bump my calories back up to maintenance, take advantage of the extra energy and start and climbing with a renewed focus. I’m largely interested in bouldering (mostly indoors but have climbed outdoors a handful of times) and have been at it for about 2.5years.

I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts on the plan I’ve put together to increase both my climbing strength and skill.

Monday -Gym – 5/3/1 Building the Monolith (BtM) squat and OHP

Tuesday -Climbing – strength endurance (3x6 @ onsight level)

Wednesday -Gym – 5/3/1 BtM deadlift and bench

Thursday -Climbing – endurance (4x6 @ 1-2grades below insight) and hangboard (5, 10, 15 second hangs x4)

Friday -Gym – (BtM) squat and OHP

Saturday -Cardio/cycling

Sunday -Climbing – limit bouldering (4 routes @ 1-2 grades above onsight level)

The climbing sessions themselves are taken from Steve Betchel’s book ‘logical progression’ and the gym work is obviously one of Wendler’s 5/3/1 programmes. I’ve already been climbing 3x a week for the last 6 months or so (but each session was pretty aimless/unstructured), and I was going to the gym 4x per week but was becoming a ‘lifter who climbs’, rather than a ‘climber who lifts’, so I’ve knocked it back to 3x. Hangboarding I’ve never done before, and after reading some guides, picked a very simple beginners protocol to do once per week to begin with. Ideally I’d do the hangboarding on a gym day but my gym and climbing centre are in different locations.

What d’ya guys reckon?