Whether you are a diehard boulder, a big wall climber, or someone who likes to sample all of climbings diverse disciplines proper nutrition is important to your performance and to your overall health. However, your nutritional needs for a day of bouldering and for a day of mountaineering are very different and have a separate set of priorities. Luckily, the website climbingnutrition.com recently posted an article that describes how dietary needs change when moving between these various climbing disciplines.
In this article, author Brian Rigby outlines the differences between one’s fueling priorities for bouldering, sport climbing, big wall climbing, and mountaineering. Ultimately, Brian focuses primarily on the ratio between carb, fat, and protein consumption and how this ratio should change depending which sub-discipline of climbing you are participating in.
“As a general rule, the shorter the route, the less overall importance carbohydrates have in the diet—not because they are not still supremely important for short-route climbers (they are!), but because short-route climbers burn vastly less energy and therefore need less. As routes grow in length, carbohydrates (and fats, to a lesser extent) are needed in greater amounts simply to meet the sport’s caloric demands.” – Brian Rigby
While he does not go too deep into specifics, Brian does provide some general nutrition guidelines for each activity that just might help you put in one last good red point burn at the end of the day or feel strong throughout a long push in the mountains. Click through bellow to read the entire article or if you are still interested in improving your diet check out or Nutrition Guide by Aicacia Young for some more detailed information.
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(photo courtesy of climbingnutrtion.com)
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