When you top out a boulder problem or exit the crux section of a sport route do you find you’re breathing heavy or have been holding your breath? If this is you, here’s an article by Alli Rainey about the importance of breathing and how spending sometime focusing on your breathing can really improve your climbing.
“If it does, consider putting some time and energy into training an improved awareness of your breath. Harnessing and utilizing the breath to your advantage can make a tremendous difference in your climbing performance – and potentially in other areas of your life as well.” – Alli Rainey
To help you focus more on control your breath, Alli recommends actively focusing on your breathing when climbing easier routes and problems, experimenting with some yoga classes, and even using breath counts to time on-route rests.
While Alli admits that changing your breathing patterns will take time, she argues that the effort is worth it as it can pay off in improved endurance, on-route recovery, and focus. Take a look at the full article by clicking through bellow. I thought her suggestion about timing rest through counting your breaths is especially interesting.
Click Here: Alli Rainey – Breathing
(photo courtesy of Savannah Cummins / @sav.cummins)
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