VIDEO: 20 Foot Rope Climb

[JoeJustice]

Ladies and gentlemen, friends and neighbors, can we all agree that a 20 foot rope climb is a pretty good demonstration of functional fitness?

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This is a 1 and 1/4" nylon rope I got from a local marina. It was pretty tough finding rope in my area, but we're a river city and this is the stuff they use to tie up barges. I bought this piece of rope about two months ago. When I hung it up, I could tell my arms were strong enough buy my grip was too weak to get far. So for about six weeks I focused on the Power T's, chins, towel pull-ups, isometrics and a lot of the wrist and forearm exercises in PYTP. In that time I didn't even try to climb the rope. I went back to it about two weeks ago, climbing once a day for two weeks was all I needed to get to the top. I think those two weeks were really just about getting the coordination down.

Physical challenges don't really intimidate me much anymore, once I set my mind to something, I know I can get it in a matter of time. Not too bad for someone who just two years ago could barely do one chin-up :)

-Joe

[Andy62]

Joe, That is really impressive. Gordon

[jonlclay]

Great job Joe, inspiring to all of us who can't do that yet.

Jon

[GB]

Joe,

Good stuff – good job. You made it look easy any chance you’ll try a 40 ft climb?

GB

[John Peterson]

Joe,

It would be a lie to say I am even remotely surprised. But you made it look very easy my friend.Great job.

---John Peterson

[tom]

Great job, Joe. Thanks for letting us see what 20 feet up there looks like. Yeah, in the end it was the grip thing. What next?

Tom

[gs300tx]

Awesome work Joe!!!

[DT man]

Outstanding and impressive job, Joe. This video is a testimonial to effectiveness of the program you are doing. As stated before, Transformetric exercises produce big time functional fitness results. When ever someone asks me what do I mean by functional fitness, I direct them to your videos. More than just posing for muscle mags, Transformetrics produces results which truely take a person to the next level. And don't point out outstanding athletes who train one way or another, show me real improvement. Here is a guy who couldn't do one pull up two years ago and now can out perform most Special Forces unit members, Firefighters and Police Officers. That's what you get from Transformetrics.

[JoeJustice]

Hey, thanks everybody! Glad you enjoyed it.

For the record, yesterday morning I weighted 188lbs. The tree limb is actually right at 18 feet off the ground, when I bough the rope I didn't think add a few feet for tying it up! D'oh!. But it worked out okay, because leaving the rope a few feet off the ground made it impossible to use my legs to get started. I think I can make it several more feet with no problem, you can tell at the end of the video I'm no where from out of gas when I get to the bottom. Now a 40 foot climb? Not yet.

I guess the L-Sit is the next big challenge. L-Sits are freakin' tough!! I'll probably going work on doing multiple climbs next. I'm also thinking of hanging another rope and doing some two rope climbs. One day I'm going to have a bunch or ropes back there and everyone can start calling me Tarzan! :male-fighter2:

-Joe

[Aaron Hoot]

That was great Joe.

Aaron

[monty]

Rock on Joe you are becoming a certified beast!!!

Monty

[VRT Man]

Joe, great job! And no feet for extra leverage! It would be interesting to see how far you could really go, since a 20 foot climb isn't a problem.

-Greg Mangan

[tom]

Stick with 20 (ish - good enough). Go for reps, speed, or L's or sumptin. Nobody does 40 unless they can't measure or are unwisely foolish. A 20 foot drop may injure - a 40 foot drop will injure, or worse. Again, great job. Don't want to lose you.

And a pegboard. Consider that. I loved pegboarding in jr. high.

Tom

[Greg Newton]

Great job Joe. I was suitably impressed. That is functional fitness at it's best. Russ Warner, the physique photographer got into the post WWII bodybuilding scene after he watched marines from his unit drown. The transport they were supposed to get on to carry them to the beach was shot out from under them and some couldn't hang on to the ladder roping and slid into the water never to surface again. He swore that would never be him.

By the way Joe, I know you can't be really using John's methods to develop that kind of strength. Tell the truth, you are really doing Cross Fit or one of Ross E.'s progams, aren't you?:wink:

Too, and I am being serious this time. Shuck the baggy clothes. I am not saying wear skin tight clothes, but you can wear stuff now that will be flattering of your physique. The baggies are a mental holdover from the fat days. You have a build you can be proud of.

[tom]

Yeah! Tommy Bahama all the way!

Uh, uh oh, might be heading for another shirt disaster.

Never mind.

[JoeJustice]

Man... sure seems like a get a lot of grief over my cloths around here... :thinking:

-Joe

[gruntbrain]

Beyond Joe's impressive climbing, I hope folks are inspired to use some dangling rope to "monkey around" with a variety of isometrics & isotonics . Double your pleasure/pain with 2 adjacent dangling ropes. If you tie Bowline knots the ropes can function as gymnastic rings.

[Greg Newton]

Well Joe,

Since I have a whole closet full of black and navy blue tee-shirts, I'd have to say that I really like your tee-shirt in your avatar!

[jonlclay]

I'd love to do a rematch, I think I can take Caleb this time!! Joe, what do you say? We could include a 1 set max bodyweight improvement option.

Jon

[JoeJustice]

Be honest Greg, what you're really jealous of is my Eagle staff and the remarkable similarities between it's beak and my nose!

Jon, we'll see here in a few months. I just did another friendly competition with someone just before I did this one and I'm a little burnt out of competitions. I'm shifting my focus from physical transformations to more strength building.

It was about this time two years ago that I first picked up The Miracle 7, at that time I could barley do one chin. Since then I've been working on my "transformation". Now it being 2 years and being able to climb a rope with no sweat, I think it's a pretty good capper to the transformation period of my training. Time to shift focus, at least for a bit.

-Joe

[jonlclay]

Hey Joe, understandable. Keep up the strength building. I'll have a contest against myself.

Jon

[tom]

Taking a break from being a smart alec, there is really something to what Greg said. Don't consider yourself a fat person. Don't be a fat person. Wear clothes that a slim person, not a fat person can wear.

Women do it automatically. We don't change our wardrobe naturally. If it weren't for our wives, we'd still have orange shag carpet and Bruce Lee posters on the wall. And swords over by the pull-up tower. I knew I could stay serious too long.

Tom