Blog Posts about Injuries
Dr. Volker Schoeffl on Taping
Go to any climbing gym or crag and you'll see climbers taping up left and right. While a lot of this tape is used to cover up thin or torn skin, climbers also use finger tape to help prevent injuries [...]
Hang Just Right: Shoulder Maintenance for Climbers
Today we are going to stick with the shoulder maintenance theme we've got going this week. As we talked about yesterday, climbing movement puts a ton of stress and wear and tear on the shoulder joint. Doing exercises like the [...]
The Climbing Doctor Shoulder Exercises
In climbing, shoulder injuries are far to common. Additionally, because of the nature of climbing movement and the anatomy of the shoulder, shoulder injuries are something that affect climbers of all ability levels. Because of these realities, climbers of all [...]
Treating Tendonitis/Tendinosis for Climbers
Elbow pain, whether from tendonitis or tendinosis, can be one of the most frustrating and debilitating climbing injuries. Because these conditions can seem like minor problems in the beginning, there is a temptation to simply ignore them and continue climbing. [...]
4 Yoga Poses to Prevent Shoulder Injuries for Climbers
About a month ago, we posted about the new Yoga for Climbers online course being offered by professional climber and yogi Heidi Wirtz and Climbing Magazine. The idea of the course is to make yoga more accessible to climbers while providing instruction [...]
The Yoga Warm Up for Climbing
For most climbers, the standard method of warming up is to just start climbing on easy terrain. While this is definitely part of an effective climbing warm up, simply jumping on the climbing wall or rock before doing any activity can [...]
Eva Lopez Climbing Injury Prevention II
A couple weeks ago we posted the first half of an interview Dr. Jared Vagy, The Climbing Doctor, did with Spanish climber and trainer Eva Lopez about injury prevention and what she does to keep herself and her athletes from getting [...]
How I Came Back Stronger After A Finger Injury
It's Neely this time, and I want to introduce Matt Pincus, our content manager over here at TrainingBeta. He's been providing you with fantastic blog posts and social media posts since mid 2015, and today he's doing so as a featured [...]
5 Tips for Preventing Climbing Injuries
Injuries are an unfortunate reality in climbing. If you are consistently trying to improve and push your level, chances are you've dealt with an injury or two before. However, while not all injuries are completely avoidable, many climbing injuries [...]
Ben Davison Training Videos
Over the past several weeks, Epic TV has been posting a series of training videos featuring UK strongman Ben Davison. In the videos, Ben takes you through most of his training program beginning with his warm up and antagonist training and [...]