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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 [...]
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. [...]
Date: February 16th, 2016 About Matt Helliker Matt Helliker is a notable alpinist who's done quite a few first ascents. He's originally from England, but now lives, climbs, and guides in Chamonix, France. As an ice climber, a mixed climber, a [...]
February 9th, 2016 Ketogenic Diet and Climbers I've been hearing more and more about the ketogenic diet in the climbing world. For instance, Dave MacLeod and Neil Gresham have had success with it and due to their media coverage of [...]
Date: February 3rd, 2016 About David Mason David Mason is a British boulderer who's climbed up to V13/14 (King of Limbs in South Africa) and many boulders between V10 and V13. In 2014, he managed to send 20 boulder problems between [...]
Date: January 27th, 2016 About Matt Lloyd Matt Lloyd is a long-time friend of my husband, Seth, having started climbing on the same team in Denver about 15 years ago. He's known for his bold R and X-rated ascents, and now for [...]
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 [...]
Date: January 6th, 2016 About Nina Williams Nina Williams is a boulderer (and budding trad climber) who lives and trains in Boulder, CO. She's climbed V13 and she won the Dark Horse comp in 2015, but she spends most of her energy [...]
Date: December 31st, 2015 About Dave MacLeod Dave MacLeod is one of the most famous climbers in the world, having put up many first ascents of sport, boulder, mixed, and trad climbs. Honestly, I'm not going to do him justice with [...]
Date: December 16th, 2015 About Tom Randall Tom Randall is one of the infamous Wide Boyz offwidth climbers from Sheffield, England. He's climbed 5.14 offwidth, trad, and sport climbs, and he's a professional climbing trainer as well. He and [...]