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5 feet 6 and 205 lbs?! Incredible. Creatine is totally inappropriate. I thought you'd be a skinny bastard already. You really need to cut down on your muscle mass if you want to get more badass at rock climbing. 205 lbs indicates to me that there's either 20+% body fat or ridiculous amounts of sarcoplasmic hypertrophy. I'd say 120-150 lbs is more appropriate for you height as a rock climber. Start eating a low carb diet like Atkins or South Beach and introduce a lot more HIIT. 3 days of HIIT sprinting a week. No more lifting until you cut your weight down to at least 180, just rock climbing and HIIT. Then start with more strength work. Don't worry about not getting any endurance out of your lifting, the conditioning should come from the rock climbing itself.
You need to sub out the 10x6's with something geared more towards strength. 6 reps should be 85% of your max, but I have a feeling that with 10 sets you're lifting more or less around 70% of your 1RM, or you're including your warm-up sets in with your work sets so I could be wrong. And the way you divide the workouts into body parts makes it seem like you're following a bodybuilder's routine, which would be totally inappropriate for a rock climber.
Start lifting when it's too cold or out of season to climb. A simple strength program like Rip's Practical Programming for beginners should suffice. Get your 1RM squat number up to 2x bodyweight and your 1RM weighted pull-ups to 1x bodyweight (ie if you weigh 150 lbs then you're attaching another 150 to your body), then begin some plyometric work. You want to be able to explode up the rock in some spots
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