So you’ve been improving your grip strength through focused warm-ups and stretches, increasing your grip strength by mixing up training holds on the bouldering wall, and finally working all those grip strength exercises into your routine, now it’s time to test your forearm muscles and hand strength with a grip strength tester. Do you need …
Read more Grip Strength Testers: What Are They and Why Do I Want One?
If you’ve been tuning in for our other articles about how to improve grip strength by adding stretching and warm-ups to your climbing and training sessions as well as grip strength exercises that you can do at home or in the weight room, you might have been feeling like you’d be spending more time training …
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Do you ever get frustrated that you just can’t hold on any longer when you are climbing? Or look at those tiny crimpers and think “How do I improve my grip strength to the point where I can actually use those?” You are most certainly not alone in those thoughts. One way to improve grip …
We’ve all seen those ridiculously strong folks in the gym doing their weighted hang board and campusing workouts and then have looked down at our chalked and already burning hands to wonder how exactly one gets to that level of strength training. Deep down we know just by observing the incredible back muscles on these …
Read more 8 Grip Strength Exercises to Take Your Climbing Next Level
Are you having a hard time looking for the perfect gift for someone in your life who is a climber? Or are you looking for the best item suitable for people buying on a tight budget? Perhaps you are not a climber yourself but want to show your love or appreciation to a climber friend …
Rock climbing is an outdoor and indoor sport enjoyed by over 35 million climbers worldwide. The climbing community is a friendly space where climbers share techniques for difficult routes, cheer you on when you complete your goal, and offer a belay. New climbers are intimidated after watching viral documentaries on Netflix, like Free Solo. Rest …
The gym is closed? Don’t want to budget for a gym membership? No problem. During quarantine, climbers had to get creative with at-home workouts. People were doing Russian twists with water jugs, hand crimping door frames, and making their homes work for them. Maintaining muscle and grip strength was vital, and climbers would do whatever …
There’s a multi-pitch of reasons as to why your climbing skill is staying stagnant. What gives? For this article, we compiled feedback from climbers of all ages and ranges. It’s not just you hitting a plateau. In most climbers’ bouldering training, everyone hits a wall somewhere (and probably some rock walls too!). If your climbing …
Read more Why Your Rock Climbing Skills Aren’t Improving (and What You Can Do About It)
There’s no recommended age to start rock climbing. We bet some of the top names even did it in the womb. If you catch your toddler scaling cribs like they’re the next Adam Ondra, it may be time to get them to a rock climbing gym, stat! Let’s face it, kids are the mountain goats …
Hangboarding strikes me as hard for a couple of reasons, the first of which is, where in the heck do I hang it?! As always, I’m going to be completely honest — I have had a hangboard sitting untouched in the back of my closet for years. It has moved from one apartment to the …
