Mike Doyle’s Strength Program
Last week I published a podcast interview with Mike Doyle, who recently sent his long-term project, Necessary Evil (5.14c) in the Virgin River Gorge, despite having a very full load at work and a pretty healthy social life. People were impressed by a couple things about Mike Doyle: 1. That [...]
Blendtec 725 Designer Series Review
This review was written by co-runner of TrainingBeta, Seth Lytton. It's super thorough and as he will tell you, despite what you think, your blender is probably not as good as it could be.... Enter Seth.... Alright, so you might be asking yourself why a website about climbing training is doing a [...]
Shoulder Surgery 3 Month Update
I (Neely) recently wrote a post describing my shoulder surgery (SLAP tear and bone spur, no anchors to repair the labral tear - just tenodesis and bone spur removal under the achromium) and the first 4 weeks of my recovery. It was long and detailed with horrible pictures of me, [...]
Free Training Q&A Call Replay
Download Directly RSS Feed: http://trainingbeta.libsyn.com/rss If you missed our free 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 call we answered questions on: How best to schedule your workouts on our Bouldering Strength and Power Program [...]
Update: 1 Month After Shoulder Surgery
For more shoulder updates, see these posts: 3-Month Shoulder Surgery Update 1-Year Shoulder Surgery Update On November 10th, 2014 I had shoulder surgery. I, by the way, am Neely Quinn, one of the founders of TrainingBeta. My bio is here. If you've been following the podcast or my blog [...]
Winner of the Halloween Giveaway Announced!
In case you hadn't heard (not sure how that'd be possible since we announced it about a million times ;), we did a giveaway last week, and today we're telling you who won - woohoo! Drum roll please.... Steve Gula Is The Winner of Our Halloween Giveaway! ...and we're sending him the [...]
Giveaway! Hangboard and Training Program
It's almost Halloween, and in honor of the holiday where strangers give out free stuff, we're going to give one of you loyal readers some free stuff of our own. In other words... we're doing our first giveaway! One person will get two of the best training resources available, and if you enter [...]
How To Try Hard
This post was written by co-runner of TrainingBeta, Seth Lytton. Seth is a training fanatic, a strong rock climber, and he knows how to try hard. Here he shares the method he's developed for harnessing his "try hard". Enter Seth... Alright, so we all say it right? "TRY HARD. Come [...]
Free Finger Strength Workout
Finger strength is possibly the most important aspect of training for climbing, whether you're gaining it by climbing or fingerboarding. It all adds up to being able to hold onto smaller holds for longer, which means you can climb harder routes and boulders. Using a fingerboard is definitely the most effective [...]
6 Tips to Make A Hangboard Session More Tolerable
As a person who's spent some long hours on a fingerboard, hangboard, or whatever you want to call it, I can tell you that it sort of sucks. Sometimes, depending on the day, it really sucks. By the way, "I" am Neely Quinn, the founder of TrainingBeta.com. You can read more about me [...]