Campus board plyometrics before I'm ready? Or am I being too cautious at V7
Been climbing about 4 years, projecting V7 outdoors, gym climbing V8 on a good day. My contact strength feels like the obvious limiter right now, so I've been reading into campus board plyometric work, specifically the stretch-shortening cycle stuff where you're using the elastic rebound rather than just pulling hard.
Started experimenting with double dynos on big rungs last month. Just 4 sets of 3, sub-maximal, no rebounds yet, long rests between sets. Honestly my catches feel fine and I'm not getting pumped from it. The warm-up protocol I've been following says to stop the whole session if your fingers feel even slightly worked during warm-up, which I respect, but I'm also wondering if I'm being paranoid.
Here's where I'm uncertain: everything I read implies this kind of training is for people with a much higher base. Like, legitimately scary injury potential if your tendons aren't ready. But I'm also 4 years in with no pulley injuries and I climb 4 days a week consistently. That's not nothing.
I might be totally off base here but I feel like the "wait until you're advanced" advice is sometimes just overcautious boilerplate that gets copy-pasted everywhere. Or maybe it's not and I'm exactly the person who's going to pop an A2 thinking I'm the exception.
For people who added campus plyometrics to their training: what grade were you climbing when you started, how long had you been climbing, and did you have any issues early on? Trying to figure out if there's an actual threshold or if it's more individual.