Training in the cold again

[wal]

It was summer here a week or so ago, yesterday about 25c, not bad for late Autumn. Today though a wintery blast from the south pole cut its way over home,wind,rain, snow on the high country, I don't train well in the cold, takes a while to warm up, what happened to the global warming they keep promising?

Mark I don't suppose you have some global warming to spare over there you could arrange to have sent down here? My ability to lift a higher load seems to be be affected by the cold weather, does that mean I am getting old?

[Mark Rippetoe]

Training in Cold Weather | Bill Starr

Good luck down there.

[wal]

Training in Cold Weather | Bill Starr

Good luck down there.

Thanks. I think I read this before, however thanks for the reminder, plenty of good advice of which I can take advantage of. There was a time when the ships were wood and the men were steel, to day the ships are steel and the men are wood.

[AndrewLewis]

Don't shit on wood, man. Wood is awesome. Way stronger than men.

Have fun training in the cold. My first 315lb bench was outside my parents garage on a homemade rack and bench with snow coming down on my face.

Semi-related, not having an non-moving reference point makes benching a lot less consistent. I don't recommend benching outside in the dark.

[wal]

Don't shit on wood, man. Wood is awesome. Way stronger than men.

It is an aphorism meaning we have become soft these days (including myself),we are not as tough as we use to be or as strong for that matter. Although there are exceptions.

I swear it is so cold down here it take two blocks of ice to warm up the bath.

Has not been this cold in May for about 40 years. If you send me a jpg of a wildfire I might be able to drag a couple of btu's from it.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/en...94387e8732f596

[AndrewLewis]

I'm confused. Is 6C cold in Austrailia? Did I miss something?

[BenBoskovski]

I'm confused. Is 6C cold in Austrailia? Did I miss something?

Where I live 0C is the lowest it gets during the coldest nights. During the day 10C is very cold for me.
Location: Melbourne

[wal]

I'm confused. Is 6C cold in Austrailia? Did I miss something?

We for what ever reason went metric back in the sixties so we dumped the Fahrenheit scale and went to Celsius, so 0' C equals 32'F and yes 6'C degrees is flaming cold although Aussies will drink beer at between 2 and 3 degrees C even in the winter. BTW it is not Austraila, it is Australia which means "Southern" from the Latin "Australis", so now you know.

[Meshuggah]

I don't heat or cool my garage gym. I'll take 10 degrees over 90 or 100 anytime. For me the cold is invigorating. The heat is my kryptonite.

[Dave M]

Where I live 0C is the lowest it gets during the coldest nights. During the day 10C is very cold for me.
Location: Melbourne

Just for context, people here probably won't consider it "training in the cold" unless it's below freezing. 10 C (50 F) really isn't that much of an impediment. You wear stretchy pants and a hooded sweat shirt on top of your workout cloths and then by the time you're in your work sets you'll be feeling good or too warm for the sweat shirt. Maybe need an extra 5 min general warmup if you're really not used to it.

I find the bigger problem is around or below freezing: the bar sucks the heat out of your hands. Then you have to choose between benching with numb hands or benching in gloves. Neither is ideal.