Steve Hong on Climbing Skin Care
No matter how strong you get, your skin will always be one of the limiting factors for how much you can climb and how many quality goes you can have on your project. While there is nothing that can be done to fully prevent your skin from growing thin during [...]
Five Strategies to Sharpen Concentration When Climbing
A lot of the time we fail on climbs, the reasons are mental not physical. Yet as climbers, when it comes to training, we focus almost exclusively on increasing our physical abilities and put very little to no energy into honing our mental skills. However, if you think about your [...]
Top Ten Pages on TrainingBeta
Here at TrainingBeta, we love searching for and sharing all of the articles and training information we post about on the blog with you. Gathering useful training information together in one place was one of the main goals for TrainingBeta when we set out. However, we've posted a lot of articles and [...]
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 and classes that are targeted to the specific needs of [...]
Coping with the Down Times in Climbing
If you commit to climbing for an extended period of time, then you will inevitably encounter periods where you simply can't seem to try your hardest. While it would certainly be nice to be able to stay extremely psyched all the time, this just isn't the reality of climbing in the [...]
Jonathan Siegrist: One Last Ass-Kicking Memory on the Diamond
We usually don't post articles about a professional climbers sends no matter how impressive they are. However, this article, from the Arc'teryx Blog, by Jonathan Siegrist about his recent ascent of the Direct Dunn Westbay on The Diamond of Longs Peak is simply too good to be missed. In it, Jonathan [...]
Muscle Cramp Prevention
Anyone who has ever suffered from a muscle cramp knows how debilitating they can be. Because of this muscle cramps have the ability to sabotage your performance and undermine months of training and hard work. While muscle cramps can effect climbers of all styles, this is especially true for mountaineers [...]
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 be extremely harsh on your body contributing to the risk [...]
Dynoing Basics with Connor Griffith
If you have never dynoed before, then watching someone explode upwards, fly through the air, and latch the next hold can seem like a miracle and something totally out of your ability level. However, dynoing, like any other skill in climbing, is actually a series of coordinated movements that can [...]
Projecting Rock Climbs with Eric Hörst
If you've ever invested in projecting a route or boulder problem, then you know that a lot more goes into success than simply being strong enough to send the route. Using good tactics to efficiently work a route and approach it with the correct mental game will dramatically cut down [...]