Performance Climbing Coach Seminar with Steve Bechtel, Neely Quinn, etc
If you take your climbing training seriously (or your clients') and you feel like you just can't get enough information about it by reading and watching videos, then it might be time for you to invest in more hands-on learning. Steve Bechtel created the Performance Climbing Coach Seminar, a 2-day [...]
Climb Strong: Foundation Strength
We all know that getting stronger is an important part of improving climbing performance. However, many periodized programs give us the idea that we should only work on strength during certain blocks of our training. According to Steve Bechtel of Climb Strong, this isn't the best approach. Instead, he advocates [...]
Moon Climbing: 6 Shoulder Stability Exercises
Because of the increase in shoulder injuries, climbers are really concerned with shoulder injury prevention. To give you some ideas about how to incorporate shoulder stability work into your training, here's an article from Moon Climbing where British climber Olivia Ratcliffe outlines six shoulder stability exercises. While the concern about [...]
Matt Pincus: Training While Trying to Send
You've trained hard for months, you're feeling strong, and conditions are prime on your project. It's time to send! But wait?!?!?!?!?! You've got a job and commitments outside of climbing. This means you can only get to your project on the weekend. What do you do with the rest of [...]
Rock and Ice: Michaela Kiersch on Setting Goals
It's easy to look at the big accomplishments of the climbing elite and think that these sends just happened because of how strong and talented these athletes are. However, this view not only glosses over all the hard work these climbers put in, but it also completely skips the first and [...]
Matt Pincus: Principles of Core Training
You've been in the gym for hours. Your fingers are stiff. Your skin hurts. Despite all of this you want to do more. After all, you want to get stronger and training is supposed to be hard. So what do you do? You head to the gym's training area and think, [...]
The Climbing Doctor: Shoulder Injuries – The SLAP Tear
Climbing injury rates are on the rise. If you climb long enough, chances are you're going to deal with an injury at some point. However, this doesn't mean we should just be sitting back waiting for injuries to happen. Most climbing injuries are the result of overuse. This means that [...]
Beta Angel – A New Resource for Climbing Research
As climbing and training become more and more popular, we are learning more and more about what actually works. Think back a couple years ago. We hadn't even reached a consensus on whether or not hangboarding was an effective way to increase finger strength. Today, if you talk to anyone [...]
