You’ve heard it before and I’m sure you’ll hear it again: one of the main mistakes climbers make in their training is monotony.
“Easy and instant access should do wonders for your climbing, but there’s a fatal flaw to many climbers’ training regimen: monotony. It’s easy to fall into a blah routine or just hop on any 5.10 with the shortest line. But infusing your workout (and it is a workout) with purpose, variety, and motivation will yield big results in your strength, endurance, and power.” -Julie Ellison and Alex Biale
This article is from climbing.com about new climbing gym training workouts to hopefully reduce any monotony in your training.
This isn’t a monthly program or any kind of super time consuming training schedule. This article includes 13 climbing gym training workouts where all you have to do is climb. Pick and choose the ones that seem right for you with what you’re needing in your climbing training.
For example, one of the workouts:
“Projecting, Power: Project, Push-up, Pull-up
Power is difficult to train for, but a great way to gain it is to try hard moves when you’re already tired. Find a project at your limit that you’ve never been on, isn’t your style, and is something you wouldn’t mind putting some effort into. For 15 minutes, work on your project. When the time is up, you have five minutes to do 50 push-ups and 20 pull-ups. Even if you haven’t done that many, quit when the five minutes is up. That’s one round. Do six rounds of this, so by the end, you will have put 90 minutes into your project and aimed for 300 push-ups and 120 pull-ups. It helps to do this with a partner who is equally motivated. Bring a notepad to keep track of your rounds. This is easier with boulder problems, but can be done with sport routes as well.”
Looks pretty good, yeah?
Also included in the article are explanations of the benefits you can receive from workouts as well as some basic rules for gym rats.
Check out the rest of the climbing gym training workouts by clicking the link below….
CLICK HERE: New Workouts to Refresh Your Climbing Gym Training
(photo courtesy of climbing.com)
