Strong Circuits: Quick and Focused Workouts for Peak Performance
The author of this article, Rob Pizem, appreciates the value in a good bang for your buck workout. As a full time high school teacher, pro climber, husband, and father of two young boys it's all he has time for. If you are also someone who doesn't have a lot of [...]
A Step-by-Step Approach to Conquering Lead Climbing Fear
When you're afraid of lead climbing, one of the scariest ideas is having to force yourself to take falls over and over again as the way to "get over the fear". This article from CruxCrush.com suggests a different approach.... "Conventional wisdom about training to lead climb will have the climber [...]
Dave MacLeod: What to Do When Overtrained
"I suspect that most climbers with symptoms of overtraining are not doing more volume than their bodies can handle. Instead they are often suffering from zero variety in training. Always training at the same wall, same rock type, same scene, same anything?" -Dave MacLeod Sound like you? In this article [...]
Training Beta Gift Certificates Now Available!
If you're still looking for a great gift for a climber, we have a solution for you! We now have Training Beta gift certificates available at checkout for all of our products (three training programs and three guides)! We have three Training Programs available: *Bouldering Strength and Power: This is an online [...]
Climb Strong: Climbing Endurance 3.0
Ever fallen at the top of a project on a redpoint burn? Most of us have. It's not that sweet. Want to learn how to build your climbing endurance to hopefully keep that kind of thing from happening? This article from Steve Bechtel's site, climbstrong.com, is a really good breakdown [...]
Rock and Ice: Building a Better Climber: Part 2
Ready to work on your low-intensity endurance skills to become an even better climber? This is Part 2 of Rock and Ice's (rockandice.com) 7 part series of "Building a Better Climber". Part 2 is a sport specific endurance phase with the focus on high-volume, low-intensity training. The priority in this [...]
Dan Mirsky: How to Go From Bumbler to Crusher
We had a question emailed to us this fall about "moving up" in climbing levels when you're climbing outside. Specifically the question was about becoming a stronger climber in Rifle (Colorado limestone climbing area): "I am one of those gumbies that can give 2 or so burns in the Arsenal and [...]
Pro Tips with Mirko Caballero
13 year old Mirko Caballero knows a thing or two about projecting. He has sent from 5.14 to V14. Recently he sent Le Son du Poete (V13) in Switzerland in one day. He knows how to send projects and he also knows how frustrating projecting can be. In this article from dpmclimbing.com, [...]
Paige Claassen: 10 Steps to Trying Hard
CAMP USA athlete, rock crusher, and good friend Paige Claassen wrote this article for the CAMP website (golightgofast.com) about advice on how to try hard. As she says, pushing your physical ability is clearly really important in advancing your climbing, but it also comes down to your ability and willingness to [...]
Training: 10 Exercises for a Complete Core
Looking for a new approach to training your core? This article from climbing.com shows 10 exercises that don't just target the core muscles, but work many parts of the body at once with the aim of building a more complete core. When you're climbing you use multiple parts of the body [...]