Grip Strength and Salad
Hi Steph,
The other day I came across a yahoo article concerning ’10 awesome careers’, and I ran into a tid bit section about your rock climbing career. After checking out your website and what I’ve learned about you through that source, I have to say it’s easy to see why you are an inspiration to a multitude of people. I have nothing but respect and admiration for a person who has as much strength as you do, and to have the fortitude to chase your desires without concern to how you fit into the rest of society. Any way, I’m not even remotely close to being a climber, in the past I did several weeks of in-door climbing to supplament my workout routine. However I’m looking for good ways of increasing my grip strength, my first question is: From your own personal experience, did you see a substantial increase in grip strength after picking up a climbing regiment? Or did you mostly see an increase in grip endurance? I skimmed through a section of how you prepare your salad dressing, what all do you put in your actual salad? I’m curious because I’m a health nut, and I know that you must have an outstanding diet to be as active and to look as good as you do.
Thanks for taking the time to read my rambling and random questions, and I’ll be subcribing to your facebook page.
Sincerely,
Doug
Hi Doug,
Thanks for writing! With grip strength as with anything, the more you do it (train), the more you’ll see an increase. I’ve noticed that you tend to “keep” your gains with power, but for endurance it requires more maintenance (training).
I eat salad almost every night. Sometimes I just eat the lettuce leaves (usually red lettuce) tossed with my vinaigrette. If I want it to be a little more filling, I add cucumbers, shredded carrots, tomatoes (if there are good ones, not usually unfortunately, because it seems like the only decent tomatoes around anymore are those I can grow in the yard in summer), avocado, sprouts, shredded cabbage or kale or chard: whatever I happen to have in the fridge. Sometimes I cook some quinoa and add that with raisins, for something different. You can also sautee tofu and add a little Bragg’s liquid aminos at the end of the sautee, and add that. You can toast walnuts in a frying pan, and put those on top, or raw pumpkin seeds. If I have any fresh basil or cilantro, I like to top the salad with that too.
Salad is my favorite dinner because I always wake up feeling great in the morning!
🙂 Steph
