Nutrition Posts
Rock and Ice: Crag Snacks
We all know that we need to eat to properly fuel our bodies. Despite this knowledge, many of us still drastically under fuel ourselves on climbing days. Not having enough crag snacks can quickly sabotage performance, lead to much shorter climbing [...]
3 Diet Changes to Improve Your Climbing (and Overall Health)
It's Neely here, and today I'm going to talk to you about how nutrition can affect climbers and how to improve your diet starting right now. If you feel like you need help in this department, I'm taking new clients [...]
Climbing Nutrition – Intermittent Fasting
If you've made your way to TrainingBeta, then chances are you're looking to improve your climbing performance. As climbers, we can be pretty maniacal in our pursuit of higher and higher grades. For many of us, manipulating our diet in an [...]
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 [...]