Failure to Sleep = Failure to Train
How much do you sleep a night? Do you make sure that you get a full eight hours or do you settle for whatever you can fit into your busy schedule? Well it turns out that a failure to sleep at least eight hours a night can significantly affect your [...]
Grip Trainers – Gimmicks or Not?
If you search around the internet, you'll quickly find a wide variety of grip strength trainers many of which are marketed directly at climbers. However, while these grip trainers may seem enticing as easy portable ways to increase finger strength, whether or not they are actually able to produce climbing [...]
Energy System Training
When you go to train are you dissatisfied until you leave the gym completely pumped and totally wrecked? While it is definitely fun to push ourselves really hard when climbing, going to the point of exhaustion and then past it isn't the most efficient training. To help you train more efficiently, [...]
Kraft Factory Training – Shoulder Stability
Coaches Dicki Korb and Patrick Matros of Germany's Kraft Factory are the trainers behind Alex Megos' success so they clearly know a thing or two about producing high level climbers. With many of their training techniques they take a slightly different approach that really stresses mobility, antagonist, and stability work. [...]
Rings/TRX Workout Video
If you have ever watched a gymnast perform a ring routine, their upper body and core strength are extremely apparent. While being able to hold an iron cross isn't necessary for hard climbing, using rings or TRX trainers to train for climbing can produce some serious results. Because the rings [...]
Anderson Brothers Core Training
Whether you prefer climbing slabs, steep sport routes, or difficult boulder problems, improving your core strength will have a positive effect on your climbing performance. However, exactly how to train your core in a functional, climbing-specific way is slightly more complicated and something climbers often misunderstand. Your core is not [...]
Training For Climbing – Finger Strength Video
If you follow this blog, then you've definitely noticed that we believe finger strength training on a hangboard is one of the foundations of training for climbing. While we do our best to provide you with information on different effective ways to fingerboard, we know that it can be easy [...]
Barbell Rehab
When people talk about strength training for climbing, most assume that it should be focused primarily on finger strength and our ability to pull. While both of these attributes are definitely important, focusing entirely on them neglects training overall strength in a way that will ensure we are functionally strong [...]
Lattice Training Interview with Will Bosi
If you follow the climbing media, it seems like a new teenage crusher is always popping up. It can be easy to get lost in who is now the youngest to climb whatever grade, and it can be tempting to simply write off these kids' accomplishments as them being prodigies. [...]
Microwaves and Nutrition
Now, I know what you're thinking. Typically nothing healthy comes out of a microwave, so how can we be posting an article about microwaves and nutrition? However, while microwaves are often used to quickly heat up highly processed meals with little to no nutritional value, they do not need to [...]