ABS Season

Yay! ABS season is upon us! The first team practice is today, and the coaches and the athletes are super psyched to start training and making better, stronger climbers. This season we are attending comps from Bozeman to Bend, Oregon.

The coaches have put together a 6 week program that is going to maximize the gains quickly and to prepare the climbers for the first comp of the season on October 1st in Bend, Oregon! We will be working hard and pushing everyone to excel in the first few weeks of practice so be ready and GET PSYCHED!!

A little photo of a campus board, something that climbers know and love!

Reynolds Creek!

The team made a day trip out to Reynolds Creek to go bouldering earlier this spring, and since then I had been unable to find the photos from that. After an extensive amount of cleaning of the 'ol computer, I stumbled upon them in a very inaccurately named folder.

There were more, but these are the best ones that I could find!

Kevin Townsely on Humping the Lorax

Adam Chitwood groping for sunny slopers

Preston and Kevin wanted to know what it was like to be twinsies

Impeccable spotting technique: elbows locked, knees locked, all the weight on the heels.

Around the World...hope that loose flake doesn't decide to remove itself today

Coach Kaiya crushes Cosmic Squirrel as the team looks on

Summertime Team Practices

Wow, we are over halfway through the summer and the team has been killing it with their workouts! We switched to two days a week for the summer so that we could have practice for longer before and after workouts...which means that Mike and Kaiya made longer, harder workouts!

Mike brought "Steven Jeffrey" home from Riggins two weekends ago and now we are doing our ab circle and seatbelts with a chunk of granite instead of an exercise ball. How fun. Most of the summer has consisted of hard workouts once a week and more climbing the other day, once a month we have a mini-comp at the gym to keep the kids in the swing of things.

Once more of the team bio forms get sent back I will update that section with photos and some fun facts about the team members! For now, here is a sample workout that the kids did on Monday July 11.

2 rounds, 30 second intervals of each exercise with 0 rest breaks until the end of a circuit

at the end of each circuit there is a 1 minute rest period

Circuit 1

Typewriters
pushups
lock offs
tricep pushdowns

Circuit 2

crimp hangs
campus 2-4
sloper hangs
weight rope

Circuit 3

plank on ball
seatbelts with SJ
incline situps
leg raises to sides
back extensions on ball

Circuit 4

Row
Bike
Burpees
Quick Lunges

This workout takes about 40 minutes to complete, with adequate rest in between rounds. All of the kids that are consistently attending practice are making HUGE gains in strength and ability. We are looking forward to the start of the ABS Season, we are in a new region and psyched to head to Portland to hit the Circuit this fall!

More to come!!

Welcome to the Front Team Page!!!

Hey there everyone, welcome to the page of the plastic and stone crushing kids of the Front Boise Climbing Team!

Here you can find our athlete bios, photos from comps, outdoor trips and just about anything and everything from our practices to team info to sample workouts that we do on a weekly basis!

Check back we will be updating and posting once a week!