Lattice Training: TRX and Rings
When it comes to training, we love to focus on the flashy parts of training like improving our personal best on the campus board or working on being able to do lots of one-arm pull ups. While these exercises certainly have their place in a successful training program, they cannot [...]
How to Get Stronger Fingers
As training becomes more popular, climbers are becoming increasingly focused on trying to get stronger fingers. However, even as we learn more about exactly what effective climbing training looks like, hangboarding consistently proves to be the best way to improve finger strength. Ultimately, there are a infinite number of workouts [...]
Training Local Endurance
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to quickly recover at even the most marginal of rests? No matter what grade you climb, no one can sustain a maximal level of exertion for an entire long route. As a result, when done properly, route climbing is a game of moving [...]
Teal Dreher – 2017 Training Plan
Unless you are lucky enough to live somewhere with year round outdoor climbing, then there is probably a good chunk of the year when it is either too hot, too cold, or too wet to get out to your local areas. While these periods may not be our favorites, they [...]
20 Min Endurance Workout
No matter how dedicated you are to climbing, sometimes "real life" time commitments can cut into the amount of time you can devote to training. The good news, however, is that as we learn more and more about training for climbing, we are finding that if you train efficiently you don't [...]
5 Must Do Yoga Poses for Climbers
As climbers, we are obsessed with getting stronger in an effort to improve our performance outdoors. While this will always be the goal, it puts a lot of strain on our bodies and can quickly lead to injury if we aren't careful. Not matter how strong you are or how [...]
Mark Anderson Advanced Endurance Training
When it comes to training endurance for long sport routes, one of the most effective strategies is performing power endurance circuits with set rest times. This kind of high end or advanced endurance training is highly effective as it mimics moving difficult sections of climbing between rest positions on a [...]
Chris Weidner on Mental Toughness
Most of the articles we post on this blog are about how we can train our physical abilities to improve our climbing performance. While this is certainly a big part of improving at climbing, it is really only one side of the coin. Climbing is an incredibly challenging sport that [...]
Preventing Ankle Sprains
Spend any time bouldering and eventually you'll land awkwardly and roll an ankle. This fall can definitely result in a sprained or even broken ankle. However, just like any climbing injury, there is injury prevention work that you can do to help minimize the severity of and even prevent ankle [...]
Complete Core Training with Eric Hörst
When most people talk about a strong core, they immediately think of six pack abs and unending sets of sit ups. However, training a complete core for climbing requires strengthening all the muscles between the shoulders and hips on both the front and back of your body. To do this [...]