Nutrition Posts
The Sports Nutrition Pyramid
With all the information out there about sports nutrition and different diets that will supposedly increase athletic performance, it can be overwhelming to know exactly what's important to focus on when designing your own optimal climbing diet. However, while performance [...]
How to Time Weight Loss
When it comes to weight loss, we almost always talk about how to loose weight, but never address when. However, for climbers looking to maximize their performance, the when is just as important as the how. The reason for this is that to lose [...]
Understanding Your Metabolism and Climbing
Here at Training Beta, we talk a lot about diet and how it can effect performance. Usually, most of the articles we post deal with the idea of loosing weight as a way to increase climbing performance. While many of [...]
Teal Dreher – Climbing & Eating
As climbing revolves in many ways around our strength to weight ratio, it is pretty much impossible to avoid the topic of weight loss when discussing climbing performance and training. While loosing weight to maximize climbing performance is certainly not [...]
The Glycemic Index Explained
If you spend anytime reading about nutrition and how it can be used to improve athletic performance you're bound to run into a discussion about the glycemic index. While the glycemic index is in fact relatively simple, understanding this measurement [...]
Introduction to Losing Weight for Climbing II
Earlier this week we posted an article by Brian Rigby of Climbing Nutrition about losing weight for climbing. In this first article on the subject, Rigby covers the basics principles behind losing weight for climbing and focuses on debunking some [...]
Introduction to Losing Weight for Climbing
A reality for climbers is that our sport that revolves around our strength-to-weight ratio. As a result, climbers who are looking to maximize their performance are not only concerned with increasing their finger strength or endurance, but also with losing weight. [...]
Should Climbers Go Low Carb?
As a nutritionist and a Paleo eater, I've (Neely) thought a lot about people's carb intakes. My own journey has taken me through periods of eating lots of carbs as a vegetarian kid and teenager, then down to very low carbs when [...]
6 Tips to Beat Fatigue
Do you struggle to make it through your day without feeling tired and run down? While fatigue like this may be common, it doesn't make it any easier to deal with and there is no quicker way to sabotage your [...]
Staying Power – How to Last All Day at the Crag
Personally, I'd like to be climbing pretty much all day every day. Now, obviously, this isn't possible as we all know everyone needs rest days. However, wouldn't it be nice to be able to maximize the days we can climb [...]