Leg Exercises for Climbing
As climbers, we tend to think that all of our training should focus on the upper body in an effort to improve things like finger strength and pulling power. However, while upper body strength is certainly important for climbing, by only training your upper body and not doing any leg [...]
Mindfulness in Climbing – Crux Crush
Have you ever noticed that when you are climbing your best you feel completely present in the moment? You aren't distracted by whats going on around you and your mind isn't racing or being filled with fear or thoughts of failure. Wouldn't it be nice if you were able to [...]
How to Heel Hook – Climbing Magazine
When utilized properly, a heel hook is one of the best climbing techniques available for taking weight off your arms, keeping your hips into the wall, and engaging your core. Many climbs and boulders would either be impossible or substantially more difficult without them. However, for beginner climbers heal hooks [...]
Advanced Conditioning for Alpine Climbing
Different types of climbing have different physical demands. As a result, you should train differently depending on what type of climbing you are training for. For example, only focusing on power may work for bouldering, but won't get you up long endurance sport climbs. This need to train for the [...]
Understanding Your Metabolism and Climbing
Here at Training Beta, we talk a lot about diet and how it can effect performance. Usually, most of the articles we post deal with the idea of loosing weight as a way to increase climbing performance. While many of these articles acknowledge that weight loss as a way to [...]
Seasonal Transitioning with Alli Rainey
Have you spent all winter training in the gym hoping for a spring/summer season full of sending? If you have, you're probably psyched that the seasons are changing and you'll be able to get out and put all your hard work to the test. However, this kind of seasonal transitioning [...]
Hand & Skin Care for Rock Climbing
An unfortunate reality of rock climbing is that it is extremely hard on your skin. Often times sessions on your projects have to come to grinding halts long before your muscles and fingers are actually fatigued due to your skin becoming too thin to still pull on sharp holds. While [...]
Climbing – Suspension Training Circuits
Whether on the TRX system or on gymnastic rings, more and more climbers are incorporating suspension training into training programs in an effort to strengthen their core, shoulders, and entire body in a climbing specific way. Additionally, when combined with more traditional forms of climbing training, like campusing and hard bouldering, [...]
Medicine Ball Leg Lifts – Alli Rainey
Do your feet fly off the wall when you are climbing on overhanging terrain? What about your hips? Do you have trouble keeping them in tight to the wall? If either of these situations describes you, then you probably need to focus some of your training on strengthening your core. [...]
Teal Dreher – Climbing & Eating
As climbing revolves in many ways around our strength to weight ratio, it is pretty much impossible to avoid the topic of weight loss when discussing climbing performance and training. While loosing weight to maximize climbing performance is certainly not the only or best way to improve your climbing level, [...]