Glute pain when climbing with spurs

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Leafguy

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Hey,

Any suggestions on stance or maybe harness adjustment to help with glutes not getting lit up when climbing with spurs? I have a new harness (Treerex) and lately my glutes have been on fire. This has happen to me in the past but not to this extent.
 
I'll see if that helps. I do try to unlock my knees but maybe have to more mindful of it. Still dealing in this harness as well. Been climbing for 18 years and never had this before.
 
Leafguy said:
I'll see if that helps. I do try to unlock my knees but maybe have to more mindful of it. Still dealing in this harness as well. Been climbing for 18 years and never had this before.
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Don’t unlock your knees, lock them. Specifically, lock one knee and use that let to hold your weight, and use the other leg, foot positioned slightly higher, to balance on the tree.
 
To add to the good advise, toss your climbing line a few limbs above you, this will take some weight off your lower body, and also allow for short breaks of sitting into your line as the ground crew unties or clears brush
 
If I know that I'll be in a tree for a while with nothing to stand on really (say spruce with small limbs and thick whorls all the way up) I'll carry a double end lanyard and throw up over me so I can use the harness as a sit harness, alternating between one leg or the other locked on spurs and then trying to stay supported on the bridge not the side D's for a bit. Also found after a buncha aches and pains in a Sequoia that the MBH with optional legs pads did wonders. Now can be up there all day and really none the worse for wear. Other thing is tree spurs may leave you out of the tree a bit more and struggling for a relaxed stance - maybe try pole gaffs? Cheers
 
Ya, I have two nice pairs of tree gaffs/ shanks/ pads that I rarely wear, and some other tree gaffs I never wear.

Pole spurs as much as possible. Bark is always thin in skinny wood. Seems like that helps joints more than muscles, but it's all connected.








Tight glutes can come from standing on one leg more than the other.
 
ghostice said:
Also found after a buncha aches and pains in a Sequoia that the MBH with optional legs pads did wonders. Now can be up there all day and really none the worse for wear.
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I had found the exact same thing except that I don't use the optional pads. Sequoia led to all sorts of pains for me in addition to falling down with just a tophandle. Monkeybeaver can carry a 661 with no issues, although that's getting off topic, I just really disliked my Sequoia even though it's great for some people.

@Leafguy at 18 years climbing and just now having issues I'd say look at what's changed. Maybe the Treerex (which I've heard good things about) isn't a good fit for you? Or possibly an underlying issue or injury recently that's caused you to change your work positioning, leading to pain on spurs. Are you on the same spurs that you'd been using or a new model?
 
TreeRex has nice lower Ds I think.
Are you using them instead of the hip Ds for positioning lanyard?
 
I agree with looking at what has changed. Do your glutes hurt just on spar/pole type climbing? or all (spreading) climbing. I prefer the side D's when spar/pole/flipline type climbing, and the lower D's for all other lanyard use. Did you used to use the side D's for lanyard?
 
Used my side D' for my first few spar climbs then switched it up for the next couple. Pretty similar out comes. I actually prefer the side d's as well.
 
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