If you look at most mainstream sports, they've had a huge amount of sports science research done in the name of quantifying and improving performance.  Having data like this is extremely helpful in that it can help inform training by [...]

Power can be a hard thing to train for climbers of any gender.  However, while there are plenty of super powerful female climbers out there, women typically find building power more difficult than males. To help any women (or anyone [...]

One of the fundamental principles of training is that it needs to be measurable.  Measuring your training lets you can gradually increase the load to ensure you are continually overloading your system. However, with climbing, getting accurate measurements can be [...]

"It's easy for you because you're tall." Spend time at any crag, bouldering area, or gym and you've probably heard this said.  While it's true that sometimes being tall can help, there are also times where it seems like being [...]

Hard climbing and training put a ton of strain on our bodies.  It's why, even though we may not want to take them, we all need rest days.  The thing with rest days is that we don't just have to [...]

Bill Ramsey is a legendary climber having established 5.14 routes and climbed 5.14b at the age of 54.  If you know Bill, you also know how manically devoted he is to his training.  Bill has developed his own training philosophy [...]