u/SteveClimbFish3rd

Legitimate question.

I feel like no matter how “fit” I get and how much I build by aerobic base I still get slightly breathless after a few flights of stairs.

Is anyone else is the same boat or am I just 💀

I have not been bouldering very long, neither do I climb very hard. But I do love the outdoors and there's nothing like being outside on rock. Lately I have been spending a lot of time on granite in central Europe, a bit of a change from sandstone lovely Font. Now I have climbed a handful of v5's on the rough granite but want to push harder.

Hence, my question: How do climbers deal with painful skin when climbing hard on aggressive rock? For example, I'll give it a couple of strong goes. Get sore skin. Become frustrated and downhill from there. On the rough granite here I'm even too scared to warm up because I feel like I'm only getting closer to painful skin fatigue. So. How do they do it? Am I just weak and feeble minded, too scared to commit because I might get a booboo. Do I just need to push through the pain? Turn my brain off? Or is there a trick that helps the good and strong among us manage to climb hard all day outside on rough stone?

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