Blog Posts about Injuries
Overcoming Setbacks with Alex Puccio
Recently, we posted a video about Alex Puccio's Road to Recovery from her ACL and MCL tears. The video gives you a behind the scenes look at Alex's recovery process and all the hard work she put in to be [...]
Putty Exercises for Climbers
Doing putty exercises is a great form of finger and grip strength training for climbing. Unlike more traditional finger training like hangboarding and fingerboarding, using putty to train your fingers is very low impact and as result can be done [...]
Injury-Free Movement for Rock Climbers
If you're a psyched rock climber, there's really nothing worse than having to take large portions of time off climbing just to rehab injuries. While climbing injuries do happen, one of your main training goals should be actively preventing and [...]
Freebie Shoulder Workout
An unfortunate reality of climbing and training is that it can leave us injured and unable to continue progressing in our sport. While there are loads of different ways you can injure yourself climbing, one of the most common areas [...]
Ultimate Rock Climbing Skin Care Handbook
It's the last day of a road trip, you've been falling on the last move of your project, but are psyched to give it one last ditch effort. Devastatingly though, you've got a split tip, the rest of your skin [...]
Eva Lopez Finger Strength Training
As climbers, we all know that having strong fingers is important for climbing harder routes and boulders. When we first start climbing, we develop finger strength just through climbing. However, eventually, these gains level off and if you are really looking [...]
Rock Climbing Maintenance from Home
An unfortunate reality for many climbers is that they have way more motivation than they have time. While this can be frustrating as life constraints severely limit time spent climbing outside or even in the gym, this time away from [...]
Hand & Skin Care for Rock Climbing
An unfortunate reality of rock climbing is that it is extremely hard on your skin. Often times sessions on your projects have to come to grinding halts long before your muscles and fingers are actually fatigued due to your skin [...]
Climbing – Suspension Training Circuits
Whether on the TRX system or on gymnastic rings, more and more climbers are incorporating suspension training into training programs in an effort to strengthen their core, shoulders, and entire body in a climbing specific way. Additionally, when combined with more [...]
Angy Eiter – Warming Up for Climbing
Here on the Training Beta Blog, we have covered the importance of a complete and thorough warm up numerous times. However, we can not stress just how important warming up properly is enough. Not only does it allow to you [...]