MoonClimbing: Moon Board
A Moon Board is an excellent way to train; it's hard and effective. For those of you who have never trained on one, or don't know what a Moon Board is, listen up! This is an article from moonclimbing.com about the Moon Board, and training on one... "In the late [...]
Injury Prevention: Climbing Warm-Up
It's pretty easy to justify skipping your climbing warm-up, right? "I can just warm-up on my project" or "I don't have enough time" or "I don't want to waste any of my energy on the warm-ups". Sound familiar? We've all done it. But in actuality, warming up is super important, especially [...]
CIimbStrong: Hangboard Ladder Training
New, amazing, big climbing gyms have started popping up all over the place. While that is awesome news for those of you living in the areas with access to these gyms, it is less awesome for those of you too far away to use them. The good news? Hangboard training [...]
Savory Zucchini Fritters Recipe
Happy St. Patrick's Day! How realize how super cheesy this is, but I tried to make green shamrock shaped zucchini fritters in honor of the holiday.... This zucchini fritters recipe is from the paleoplan.com site and is delicious! Try it out for a new breakfast idea or as a snack to [...]
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 [...]
Belaying a Sport Pitch When the Leader Outweighs the Belayer
This post was kindly written by Dave Sheldon, a frequent contributor to climbing magazines, and an awesome bodyworker. You can see his full bio below. Enter Dave Sheldon: Lightweight belayers – or those who climb with people who outweigh them by twenty-five pounds or more – routinely get yanked off the ground [...]
10 Reasons You’re NOT Winning in Climbing
Ever feel like climbing is just not going your way? Like no matter how you train, what you eat, or how hard you think you're working for it, climbing still isn't going well? As it turns out, there may be a good number of reasons why you're not reaching your [...]
Basic Power Training (Without a Campus Board)
If you don't have access to a campus board or find you're not quite strong enough to do a campus ladder exercise- fear not! There are other ways to train power. In this article from nicros.com, Eric Hörst talks about basic power training for climbing. He describes three complex-training couplets [...]
Finger and Elbow Injuries: Pushing Through the Tweaks, Twinges, and Pains.
This article was written by Kris Hampton and is a repost from his awesome, informative site, powercompanyclimbing.com. Kris is a great climber, friend and author of our 8-Week Endurance Training Program (with spring just around the corner it’s a great time to start this program….). Here, he addresses a topic that almost every climber [...]
Six Yoga Poses for Climbers
If you spend a lot of time climbing, you probably have one or all of the following: overdeveloped lats, tight hamstrings, a strained neck, tight hips, and/or shoulders that are slightly rolled forward. True? A pretty simple solution to help with some of the tightness in your body you may be [...]