Super Bowl Recipe Ideas
So, it's Super Bowl Sunday. Even if you're not a football fan, maybe you're going to a Super Bowl Party tonight anyway? Or have some form of a potluck dinner coming up, football related or not? Or maybe you're just going out climbing and are looking for a new post-climbing [...]
5 Errors on the Campus Board
This is a video describing 5 errors that are really pretty common with training on the campus board. Some of them might surprise you....and could explain why you may get injured on the campus board (think elbows, shoulders, fingers). The errors common on the campus board: 1. Not warming up [...]
Hangboard Workout for Climbing, Getting Started
"Doing hangboard workouts allows me to maximize my time by (hopefully) building a solid climbing base for spring during our cold season, and also have enough time for other things too, so it is great." -Steph Davis Recently we posted an article by Steph Davis about her hangboard workout program [...]
ArmAid: Review by Jonathan Siegrist
Jonathan Siegrist is an extremely strong climber. He has sent 140+ routes 5.14a, up to 5.15a, so clearly he knows how to train hard and understands the importance of recovering to feel his best. Here, he gives a review of the ArmAid, one of the tools he uses to help [...]
Building a Better Climber Part 4: Power Endurance
"Power endurance is the type of fitness required for sustained sequences of between 15 and 40 moves and will be the main focus of the phase, although I’ve included a small amount of strength work to prevent performance losses." -Neil Gresham This is Part 4 of the yearlong "Building a [...]
What Every Vegetarian (and Vegan) Should Know
It's not at all uncommon to be a vegetarian or vegan these days. People avoid meat for plenty of reasons. As athletes and climbers we want our bodies to feel as good, strong, and healthy as possible, right? So with that in mind, if you don't eat meat it's important [...]
5 Things About Climbing I Wish I Knew 5 Years Ago
"We’ve all had that moment in climbing where something finally clicks, either physically or mentally. For most of us, that moment came later in our climbing career – followed by that temporary moment of regret: ‘If only I’d known this when I first started climbing!’" -Cate Have you had that [...]
Freebie Core Workout: Bouldering Strength and Power Training
Have you ever been out climbing and had that thought, "If my core was stronger, I bet these moves would feel easier"? We've had those thoughts too. So let us help.... This is a screenshot of one of the core workouts in our Bouldering Strength and Power Training Program written by Kris [...]
How to Recover Faster in Your Sleep
"If you know a thing or two about exercise science, then you know that recovery is what strengthens your muscles, not exercise itself. Recovery is the process that repairs those tiny, micro-tears in your muscle fibers, making you progressively stronger." -Aicacia Young, RDN Knowing this, who doesn't want to recover faster? This is [...]
Hangboard Workout for Climbing: How and Why
"Personally I’ve never trained for climbing in the past–I considered climbing on my backyard wall and doing pull-up workouts to be training. I’ve always trained for projects on the routes themselves and have never lived somewhere where I had access to a real climbing gym or training facilities. But this [...]