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"Muscles tend to hog the spotlight when it comes to recovery and sports nutrition, but if you’ve ever injured a finger, then you know that your muscles are pretty useless without your tendons and ligaments. Tendons are thick bundles of [...]
The Rock Climber’s Training Manual – A Guide to Continuous Improvement By Michael and Mark Anderson $28.95 on Amazon This book review was written by Dave Sheldon, a frequent contributor to popular climbing magazines and TrainingBeta. Enter Dave... The Rock Climber’s [...]
(photo courtesy of outsideonline.com) "Decades ago, fitness consisted of two workouts: all-out, all the time; and “LSD”—long, slow distance training. Then fitness went high-tech. Personal-metrics devices from companies like Polar, Garmin, Nike, and others became a billion-dollar industry. Nutrition took [...]
Download on iTunes Direct Download RSS Feed - http://trainingbeta.libsyn.com/rss About Mark and Mike Anderson I'm psyched to introduce this podcast with brothers Mark and Mike Anderson. We did a longer-than-usual interview this time, partly because there were two of them and mostly [...]
This post is a Q&A with famous alpinists, Steve House (UphillAthlete.com) and Scott Johnston, on their new book, Training for the New Alpinism, and their own alpine careers. Enter Steve and Scott... What motivated you to write Training for the [...]
Download on iTunes Direct Download RSS Feed - http://trainingbeta.libsyn.com/rss After many months of trying to find a time that worked for both of our crazy schedules, Alex Johnson and I finally sat down and had a conversation about her climbing, training, eating, [...]
Download on iTunes Direct Download RSS Feed - http://trainingbeta.libsyn.com/rss I was honored and excited to interview the great Steve Bechtel, a long-time climber and trainer who knows his stuff when it comes to getting strong, catering to individual training needs, and staying lean, [...]
Ok, it's not really just for climbers, and you can eat it in other places besides at climbing areas, but this banana bread is staple crag food for Seth and me because it's filling, mildly sweet, and it has a good [...]
How to Lose Weight for Climbing by Neely Quinn I've been sort of dreading writing this blog post, even though I know it needs to be done. It's funny because I used to write about how to lose weight on [...]
Download on iTunes Direct Download RSS Feed - http://trainingbeta.libsyn.com/rss This podcast interview is with Kris "Odub" Hampton, a climber, trainer, artist, business owner, and all around great guy. I met him last fall at his home crag, the Red River Gorge, when [...]