Nutrition Posts
Climbing Nutrition: The Rules of Losing Weight
In his ongoing series on weight loss, Brian Rigby of Climbing Nutrition has been exploring the topic from a variety of different viewpoints. His aim is to take the complicated world of nutrition and distill it down to what is [...]
Climbing Nutrition: Food and Diet Attitudes
Sure, being light and lean is good for climbing performance. However, as climbers, we are athletes and, as athletes, we shouldn't just be looking for a quick way to shed a couple pounds. Instead, we should be looking to optimize [...]
Climbing Nutrition: The Role of Exercise in Weight Loss
As climbers, we all want to be lite, lean, and as strong as possible. These desires have led many climbers to lose weight in the name of climber performance (both in healthy and unhealthy ways). That being said, not everyone [...]
Evening Sends – Will Protein Supplements Make Me Too Bulky to Climb?
As climbers, we all want to get stronger, but we also want to stay light and lean. Attempting to balance these desires has made climbers look at main-stream exercises supplements, like protein shakes, with some serious suspicion. Climbers often feel [...]
Climbing Magazine: 5 Nutrition Tips for Vegetarian Climbers
Proper nutrition is critical for climbers and athletes of all types. Giving your body the fuel it needs to perform and then recover from your efforts should be a central concern for all climbers trying to push their limits. Performance [...]
Climbing Nutrition – Is Protein Supplementation Effective?
We all know that we need protein to fuel our climbing and training. However, the real questions are how much protein do we need and is protein supplementation beyond our basic needs going to improve our climbing performance? To help [...]
Rock Climbing Nutrition: Performance Day Guidelines
All the training and hard work we put in is as climbers is to improve our outdoor climbing. When you get to go outside feeling fit, motivated, and with good conditions, you want to make the most of it. Fueling [...]
Performance Climbing Nutrition with Julia Delves
If you look at high level athletes in other sports like cycling, they all follow strictly planned out diets. The reason for this is that what you eat has a huge impact on athletic performance. This fact is just as [...]
Rock Climbing Nutrition: Rest Day Guidelines
Hopefully you got outside and climbed all weekend. It being Monday, that means you are probably due for a rest day. While we all want to climb everyday, rest days are critical important. Hard training and climbing breaks our bodies down, [...]
LIFT Protein Muffins Review
When it comes to fueling your climbing, real, unprocessed food is always the best. However, preparing good-tasting, nutritious food for yourself can be time consuming and difficult, especially when you are traveling. It's in times like these that even some [...]