Posts Tagged ‘Training’

Follow 5 Climbers: Try and Achieve Their 2012 Targets

As part of our training series of articles, we have decided to put the principles into action and see if we can help a group of climbers achieve their goals for the year. We have started by looking at things like their diet, body fat levels, current training structure, current climbing grade, strengths and weaknesses, [...]

Steve McClure on Training Power Endurance

As part of our training series this week we are going to focus on power endurance. Often overlooked by many climbers, training power endurance, is critical to getting you up most UK sport routes where the hard sections are usually no more than 10 to 30 moves. Steve McClure needs little introduction to most climbers. [...]

Turbo Charged New Year’s Training Resolutions

With the arrival of the New Year, now’s a perfect time to plan your rock climbing objectives for 2012 and develop a training program that will help achieve them. These objectives can be anything from doing your first E1, increasing your climbing grade from 7a to 7c or doing a specific route. Using a Scoring [...]

12 week progression to insane grip strength – guest post by Paul Wilson

I learned from Charles Poliquin that you should be able to train your forearms daily. If we were unable to use them daily – we wouldn’t have any mechanics to fix our cars. Right? Hey guys, my name is Paul Wilson and I am locally known in the West Midlands for my fat loss programmes [...]

Product review – The Livestrong ‘Calorie Tracker’ iPhone app

I’m one of those people that has to watch their weight – fact! Relatively short periods of careless munching quickly forms as a nice layer of fat around my middle – the last thing you need as a climber! Last Christmas was a good example, I managed to put on a good 4kg. I’m usually [...]

FigFour – Training aid for mixed climbing and dry tooling

For those of you who are unfamiliar with FigFour: Figfour is a specialized training aid for mixed climbing and dry tooling. Designed to allow climbers to accurately replicate the actions of mixed climbing indoors, without damaging the resin holds or base panels of existing climbing surfaces with the sharp picks found on traditional ice axes. [...]

Climbing book review – Training for Climbing by Eric J Horst

I really want to get better at climbing. I’ve become obsessed with improvement. I even gave up my previous job to allow me more time to better my climbing. I’m not terrible at it, but I’m not great either. Like most people I started climbing and enjoyed rapid improvement until I reached a sticking point. [...]

Mind Coaching for climbing performance at the Harrogate Climbing Wall

As we’re now approaching winter many of us hibernate indoors into the many climbing walls around the country investing time, effort and money in order to maintain and improve our climbing performance. It is a reasonable assumption to say that the majority of climbers focus on their physical performance and less on improving the psychological [...]

Is rock climbing giving you back and neck pain?

Climbing demands a lot of your body and your mind. The mental exertion can be felt as stress in your shoulders and up into your neck.

This article deals with techniques to prevent rock climbing injuries, and how to deal with them if they occur.

Climbing book review: 9 out of 10 climbers make the same mistakes by Dave Macloed

The first thing I did when I finished reading this book was turn back to page one and start reading it again – it really is that good!

In this truly inspirational climbing book, Dave MacLoed embarks on a step by step mission to destroy every excuse that stands between you and your success as a rock climber (or if you think laterally, between you and success in your job, or any other sport).