You've got a Thermarest or camping pad that sits in your closet or garage for 362 days out of the year. Let's put it to use more often! - Do ab exercises on it!

One of the reasons it is difficult to do ab exercises is that on a hard floor or even moderately cushioned carpeted floor your lower back is hurting from the ground pressure on it. If you are wearing a belt or the waist band on your pants is bulky it is worse. However if you've got a pad that you've kept handy in your family room discreetly hidden behind the couch then it's super easy and comfortable to bust out some abs while you are watching TV or in between Face Book and blogging posts.

I have been doing 100 abs a day for over 4 years now. Keeping a strong core is really fantastic for avoiding injury in any endeavor. so... Put your camping pads to use!

Habitual fitness.

I am now four years into doing 100 abs a day. Initially it was a challenge thrown out that it would be tough to do 100 reps for 100 days of anything. http://fitnessrank.com/100club/ - it didn't matter if it was push-ups, squats, or pull-ups. Abs seemed to be the easiest so I tried that first. I failed many times, I distinctly remember getting as far as 79 days consecutively one time and missing a day, Then! having to start over! I can also remember being on a BART train at 11:45 pm one night and realizing I hadn't done my situps yet! Darn the carpet on those trains has no padding. Eventually I did do the 100 day straight run. My friend Rich Fettke actually went a year without missing a day. I managed doing a year with only missing 7 days. I did "make-up days" and realized that to average 100 abs a day from then on out would be a healthy habit. Each year I moved to a different ab exercise. Sit-ups, crunchs, Atomic Situps, bicycles, etc. two years ago I tried adding push-ups to the regime and kept having trouble keeping up. Finally I got where I could do 10 push-ups everyday for a year. Last year I bumped it up to 40 push-ups every day and now have been doing that in addition to the abs for 14 months. this month I started doing 20 squats and 50 hand gripper closings as well.

Go ahead and give 100 reps for 100 days a try without missing a single day. I've now done it for Sit-ups, Jumping Jacks, and Pull-ups.

OK, It's October 12th, - two years to the day that we set the speed record on The Nose of El Cap. And it's Columbus day - this week. "They said it couldn't be done."

It was a cool summer and who knows what will happen in the next month, but we all know what is going to happen in two months. - It will be too cold and wet to climb in Yosemite. SOOO get out there and get some climbing in.

I got in a great day of three medium length routes at Lovers Leap last weekend. temps were awesome. Did you know I can legally guide at Lovers Leap? not much time left this season to do it. try getting me directly or using www.skaboosh.com

happy climbing

Yuji Hirayama and Hans Florine ARE going for The world record Wedneday the 2nd of July see the latest here: http://speedclimb.com/

El CApitan , The NOse Record, working on it NOW, June 27th. just go straight to http://speedclimb.com/ to get latest updates.

I was on the front of the SF Chronicle yesterday.

H

Online live training/coaching with Hans! set up a time and he'll share his desktop and speak with you live. Hans at speedclimb dot com

Train with Hans in the SF Bay area. Hans at speedclimb dot com

PLAY in Yosemite, STAY in yosemite. www.hansbasecamp.com

AWESOME WAY to get in an endurance climbing workout!- AND raise money for the fabulous Stacey Collver!

2007 Mt. Everest Challenge to Benefit Stacey Li Collver

5^th Annual Climb-a-thon!

Sunday, Dec. 2, 2007

1:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Planet Granite Gym in Sunnyvale
(408) 991-9090

November 10th I climbed the Nose in 5:26 with Mark Melvin.

Well, after congratulating the Hubers on their record I went up and have now taken two runs up the Nose to see where my fitness level is for taking back the record.

Mark Melvin and I climbed the route in 8:35 three weeks ago and yesterday, Saturday the 3rd of November we climbed the route in 5:26. Mark led the first half and I the second. We made a few logistical areas and were feeling a little shy of the "yosemite fitness" we need to have for the record. So it's more training and we'll be back. want to train with us? www.fitnessrank.com/turkeyburn

THEY GOT IT! -TWICE

The Huber's ran up the route in 2:48:35 and then again in 2:45:45.

see more at speedclimb.com/forum.

cheers.

Hans

On Sunday September 16th I ran into the Huber Brothers in El Cap Meadow. They seemed in good spirits after their ten hour ascent of The Nose the day before. -They flew in on Friday so it was just a jet-lag-reducing ascent.

Thomas says he'll graciously only beat the current record by 5 or so minutes so there's more to cut off for future parties.

I predict 2:36 - Go Hubers!

If you have news from the valley on their preparations or the day they'll make their first attempts at the record please post, so those close by can come cheer them on.

Hans

I'll be doing a LIVE webinar on climbing The Nose in early September. check back here or at: www.NoseInADay.com for the exact date and time.

I lead a training for climbing class every Monday and Wednesday night at 8pm at the Touchstone Concord gym. Come join us, you first class is free, and always free to Touchstone members. http://touchstoneclimbing.com/cd.html

My home is for sale in Yosemite!

http://hansbasecamp.com/lot.html

Two weeks ago I did my first descent of The Nose route on El Capitan In A Day! We rappeled the route to shoot HD and Film for an upcoming Warren Miller Production that will be aired on the Weather Channel in October 2007. Stay tuned.

I'm Power Bar's athlete of the month. Well it least I'm telling you the last day of the month.

I trained in the gym yesterday. I got a 628 score on the "gym workout sheet" with in a two hour time period. see: http://fitnessrank.com/workoutsheets/ I'm still teaching/leading a training class for climbing every Monday and Wednesday evenings at 8pm. see: http://touchstoneclimbing.com/cd_map.html

got my GARMIN GPS device uploading adventures, cool!

hansflorine.motionbased.com

Question about climbing?! or answer to a climbing situation?

Ask or give it here so everyone can benefit.

Can YOU climb The Nose In a Day? go to the following link to find out: NIAD test http://dave.clendenan.ca/cgi-bin/nose.cgi

Hans

I am now settling into a more routine schedule in the city. I'm leading a "training for climbing class" on Monday and Wednesday nights at 8pm, Touchstone Concord. http://touchstoneclimbing.com/cd_tour.html I also do a "score your workout class" at the Touchstone Concord gym every other Saturday at 7am. Both classes are free to members. Working at gaining exposure to this page http://fitnessrank.com/workoutsheets/ and it's home page. - check it out.

hope you're all taking the time to be great.

Hans

I operate my blog on my own site. Please visit: www.speedclimb.com/forum

The forum is up and working while the blog is working it is not as useful as the forum.

For my professional speaking site please see: www.hansflorine.com

Best premises to you!

Hans