Compression Climbing with Chris Schulte
If you're a newer climber or have never really bouldered before, then compression climbing (climbing the relies on squeezing apposing features together) can feel hard an counterintuitive. To help, here's an article from Climbing Magazine by professional climber and compression specialist Chris Schulte that outlines the ins and outs of [...]
Complex Training with Steve Maisch
Can you hold onto small holds, but struggle to latch them when moving to them dynamically? If you do then chances are you are lacking in contact strength. To help you better train contact strength, here's an article by climber and training guru Steve Maisch that describes a power training [...]
Maintaining Strength During the Climbing Season
When the weather gets good and conditions are perfect, it becomes really difficult to spend your time training instead of getting outside to climb on your project. While you obviously should capitalize on the sending conditions, maintaining strength during the climbing season is extremely important if you want to both [...]
Training – Emily Harrington’s Mountain Life
As a former competition climber, Emily Harrington is no stranger to hard, structured training. However, now that her passion lies more in exploring different mediums of climbing in the big mountains, her training has taken on a different tone. Instead of spending day after day in a climbing gym, Emily trains [...]
Choosing Your Climbing Projects with Alli Rainey
Engaging in longterm climbing projects can be an extremely rewarding undertaking that enables you to climb the hardest routes and boulder problems you are capable of. On the other hand, projecting can also be extremely frustrating and full of mental pitfalls waiting to sabotage your efforts. One of the best ways [...]
Don McGrath – Positivity Part II
Recently, we posted an article by author and coach Don McGrath about the potentially negative effects of too much positive thinking. To follow up on this topic, here's another article by Don McGrath about the role positivity and positive thinking plays in climbing performance. "So, what does this have to do [...]
Fast and Decisive Sending with Alex Megos
Alex Megos is one of the world's top climbers having dispatched some of the hardest routes and boulder problems. While his tick list speaks for itself, one of the things that makes Alex stand out the most is how quickly he has sent many of the world's test pieces. He [...]
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 more often with a lower risk of injury. To help [...]
8 Pro Tips for Psyching Up to Train Every Day
Psyching up to train day in and day out can be mental exhausting and difficult to motivate for in the long term. However, it's no secret that consistently training will produce results and have you climbing harder than ever. The key is finding the proper motivation and sticking with a [...]
Alex Puccio’s Road to Recovery
Alex Puccio is one of the world's top female boulders both outdoors and in competitions. Unfortunately, last year, when warming up for the Vail World Cup, she fell awkwardly and tore her ACL, MCL, and meniscus. However, through some serious hard work and dedication, she was able to recover from [...]