The Anderson Brothers: A Basic Hangboard Routine
For those of you looking to get started hangboarding- you probably have a few questions about how to go about it. Mike and Mark Anderson, authors of the Rock Climber's Training Manual, have a great article on their site, rockclimberstrainingmanual.com, that describes a basic hangboard routine. (They do make note that "basic" does [...]
Belayer’s Neck: Injury Prevention
Have you ever finished a long day of climbing (and a long day of belaying) with a sore neck? Like a dull-ache-sort-of-feeling in your neck that maybe lingers for a few days? This could be belayer's neck. "Poor belaying postures repeated over time can lead to belayer's neck. The three characteristics [...]
Campusing, Part 1: For Power…Big Rungs, Big Moves.
This article was written by Kris Hampton and is a repost from his site powercompanyclimbing.com. Kris is a good friend, strong climber, and author of our 8-Week Endurance Training Program. If you've ever climbed at the Red River Gorge, you've probably seen him. He knows his stuff. He also just had [...]
ClimbStrong: How Hard Do You Try?
How good are you about actually trying hard? If you know you might fall or fail at a hard boulder problem or route do you go for it anyway? Or shy away and stick to the easier stuff you know well? "Have you ever noticed that all of the best climbers [...]
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 [...]
Tom Lindner’s Climbing Training Tripod Beta
If you've spent time living on the road, you know sometimes it feels hard to keep progressing in climbing while you're traveling. Or maybe motivating to hangboard is hard for you because your hangboard is in your garage or basement and it's gloomy? Ready for this? A solution. A way to hangboard [...]
Emily Harrington- Training For Your Goals
Emily Harrington is a very strong rock climber and an all around talented mountain athlete. She trains really hard for it and it pays off. In this La Sportiva video from Louder Than 11 (lt11.com), Emily Harrington shares some of her training goals for 2015. Emily talks about the importance of [...]
Alex Johnson: Staying Healthy
Alex Johnson climbs a lot. And she's really good at it. Have you ever asked yourself how the Pros, such as Alex Johnson, are able to climb so often and stay injury free? Alex recently posted an article on her blog, aj-ontherocks.blogspot.com, sharing some of her tips for staying healthy. So [...]
dpmclimbing.com Review: Bouldering Strength and Power Program
"I’m really bad at sticking to a training program. That’s not to say I never train. Sometimes I’ll go out in the garage and get wrecked on the campus board if it’s raining outside and I can’t do some 'real' climbing. I’ll never do crunches though, ever. I have a [...]
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 [...]