English Translation: How Rock Climbers Control Their Weight

Original: Heather Clark Translation: Zi Diyi

Like most people, how to maintain a good slender figure is often plagued by people who love rock climbing. CLIMBING magazine has always had a first-rate spokesperson for the image. These rock climbers have given a strong and slim figure, so why is this for all climbers? The ratio of strength to weight is a popular term. For rock climbers, a reasonable ratio is particularly important. In other words, if you can keep body fat to a minimum and keep only muscles, then you can easily climb to a more difficult route, and the so-called megalithic problems will also resolve. To a large extent, these are true, but at the beginning you have to suffer to a certain limit.

Reach the pole

Malcolm Smith began climbing rock climbing in the late 1980s. At that time, the diet was all the rage. Everyone was trying to lose weight in order to maintain a slim figure. He recalled to me: "He had a diet at the time, only to be able to climb better."

"In 1992, for the first time, I successfully climbed the 5.14c level of the "Hubble route." For the first time, I began to drastically lose weight. At that time, I lost about 10 kilograms of weight. This drastic loss of meat also caused My strength has also decreased a lot, and for the next five years, my weight has always been ups and downs.My weight once reached a minimum, but after the next few weeks my weight rebounded. , and then after a crazy diet, I weighed down, and I always repeated this way. My minimum weight had reached 52 kilograms, and on average I lost about 1,000 calories a day."

Malcolm's normal weight should be kept between 70 and 73 kilograms. When he weighs 52 kilograms, he always feels as if he is boring, because he is already starving himself to death. As early as the 1990s, Lucy had also done a similar dieting test. She longed to completely lose all her body fat. In the end, she realized that this was the greatest damage to her body and mind. Now Lucy remembered the scene at the time—slow, depressed, sleepless, and so on. Today, Malcolm and Lucy have maintained a good diet balance, and they have also maintained a leading position in their sports field.

The important thing that I have mentioned above and I want to elaborate is that the slim image that these rock climbing elites sacrificed for their physical health and even their lives should not be copied by most of us. This must be borne in mind. Despite this, I'm sure that most climbers still think that if they lose a little bit of weight, their climbing levels can improve faster and their scores will be better. This article just talked about “how to control your weight” and talked about my own personal view: how to make you smart and effective control of weight, rather than go to extremes – once diet, damage your health and mind.

Balance method

The basic principle of the law of energy conservation is simple: input energy = energy consumption. In other words, if your body consumes more energy than you consume, your body weight will decrease. This is one aspect of the law of energy conservation. For another example, if the amount consumed is greater than the energy intake, then your body will be detumescent, which is a state of negative energy balance, that is, energy consumption exceeds energy gain. However, this simple rule is not easy to grasp unless you fully understand and know how to use it properly. Energy comes from food, and food calories are calculated in calories. I suggest that you remember to read the nutrition profile on the food packaging tape when you buy foods, so that you will soon know which foods contain higher calories. The important thing to remember here is that fats contain almost twice as much calories as carbohydrates and proteins. So if you want to lose weight, eat less fat.