The Importance of Flexibility for Climbing
Do you have trouble utilizing extremely high feet? How about difficult or powerful heel hooks? Here's an article form Ned Feehally of Beastmaker.co.uk on the importance of flexibility for climbing that may help. In his article, Ned Feehally argues against the claim that strong muscles are inflexible muscles and illustrates how [...]
Does Caffeine Improve Climbing Performance?
Are you incapable of getting out of bed in the morning without heading straight to the coffee maker? Everyone knows that coffee in the morning is a great way to start your day. What about right before heading to the crag or before a training session? Are the cups of [...]
Hazel Findlay Podcast Episode Is Up!
Direct Download: LINK Date: June 10th, 2015 About Hazel Findlay By the time she was 23, Hazel Findlay had made a name for herself as the first woman to send E9 (basically 5.13d but with death fall potential). The British phenom can been seen in videos doing sketchy climbing way above [...]
Route Training Essentials Giveaway (Worth $246)!
Great news! In honor of Memorial Day, and because route season is upon us in many places, we're doing a Route Training Essentials giveaway worth $246! What You Could Win If you enter the giveaway, you'll have a chance to win both of the following... 1. Sterling Gym Rope ($96 Value) It's [...]
How To End Stress-Eating, Sugar Cravings, and Food Guilt
This post was written by Neely Quinn, Nutrition Therapist, climber, and founder of TrainingBeta. She's hosting an online 2-day Event dedicated to helping you end stress-eating, binge eating, and food guilt. Enter Neely... As climbers, we want to be lean, and to be lean, we focus on our diets. And sometimes [...]
Climbing Training Q&A #2 Replay
Download on iTunes Download Directly RSS Feed: http://trainingbeta.libsyn.com/rss If you missed our second free climbing training Q&A call with Kris Peters, Seth Lytton, and Neely Quinn, fear not, because here's a recording of the whole call! In the Climbing Training Q&A call we answered questions on: How to schedule climbing and [...]
Route Climbing Training Program Now Available!
We decided to create TrainingBeta a couple years ago because the training programs in books, online, in blog posts, and in pdfs were not cutting it for me. I don't mean any disrespect to the other trainers out there; don't get me wrong. They had awesome information, and LOADS of [...]
How To Warm Up for A Route Session
This post was written by Seth Lytton, co-runner of TrainingBeta, training fanatic, and a pretty strong rock climber. He thinks warming up is important and I tend to agree with him, so here's how to do it properly. Also, this post was written specifically for our Route Climbing Training Program. This article [...]
Live Training Q&A Call and New Route Program
We have two exciting announcements today! 1. The Route Climbing Training Program We're releasing the sister program to our Bouldering Strength and Power Program on Monday, April 20th, which is called the Route Climbing Training Program. It's designed for route climbers who want to get fit, have more power endurance, [...]
Weight Management for Climbers
It's Neely here, and since I'm a nutritionist, of course weight management is going to be an interesting topic to me. And since you're a climber, it's also probably an interesting topic to you 😉 Weight does have some bearing on how well we climb, whether we like it or [...]