Angy Eiter – Warming Up for Climbing
Here on the Training Beta Blog, we have covered the importance of a complete and thorough warm up numerous times. However, we can not stress just how important warming up properly is enough. Not only does it allow to you to actually try your hardest and put forth maximal efforts, [...]
Forearm Antagonist Training for Climbing
If you have read any of our other posts on injury prevention, we talk a lot about the importance of antagonist training (i.e. TRX/gymnastic rings) as a way to strengthen under-utilized muscles and prevent muscular imbalance. While these principles apply to the larger muscle groups such as the biceps/triceps, antagonist [...]
Fingerboarding – Nathan Drolet
Obviously, if you want to climb hard routes or boulders, then having strong fingers is important. It's no secret that the most effective way to increase finger strength is through hangboarding/fingerboarding. However, with all the different programs out there (i.e. repeaters vs. max-weight dead hangs) this is where things can [...]
How to Get the Most Out of Your Climbing Gym Session
Unless you are lucky enough to live somewhere with perfect outdoor climbing conditions year round, then chances are you are going to spend a good amount of time pulling plastic in a climbing gym. However, while a climbing gym session is not always to most exciting prospect, if you spend [...]
Training Climbing Strength with Pull-Ups
While doing set after set of pull-ups is definitely not the most effective way to get strong for climbing, the pull-up is a valuable exercise that when done correctly and incorporated into a complete training program is a great way to train strength, pulling power, and the ability to lock-off. [...]
Dan Mirsky – Thoughts on BD Bootcamp
For us here at Training Beta, one of the most inspiring things we see is climbers who commit to making serious changes to their approach in an effort to improve their climbing. And we're not talking about simply changing up what sort of hangboard protocol you use or committing to doing [...]
Suspension Training for Rock Climbing
If you try out one of our Training Programs, one feature pretty much all have in common is that they feature some sort of suspension training designed to help increase rock climbing specific total body strength. While suspension training (whether its on TRX straps or on gymnastic rings) is nothing [...]
Managing Climbing Route Rests – Alli Rainey
No matter how strong you get and how good your endurance becomes, climbing routes near your limit will always involve some kind of on-route resting. While on harder, more sustained routes the rests often become marginal and may not allow you to camp out and try to fully recover, success climbing [...]
Climb Strong – Cycling Training
Have you ever noticed that no matter how much you train you go through periods where you feel weak and tired? While it would certainly be nice to feel like we were in peak sending condition at all times, this is unfortunately not how our bodies work and no matter [...]
BD Project Bootcamp Video
If you spend sometime watching any of the many climbing videos floating around the internet, you'll notice a common trend. There are lots of videos that show professional climbers succeeding on amazing looking hard routes and boulders. However, while some of these videos even depict the on-route struggles the climbers [...]