You walk into the climbing gym and make a beeline for the bouldering wall. You’ve chalked up your hands, laced your rock climbing shoes, and are pumped to flash your project. But you forget a vital part of the process… The climbing warm-up! By spending a mere 10–15 minutes loosening your joints and getting the …
Rock climbing is a physical and mental sport, full of mitigated risk and passion. If you do your due diligence, the chances of a rock climbing-related injury are quite low. For example, rushing to get on the wall without stretching is a huge no-no! As you climb, your body shifts into whatever positions possible to …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Read more How to Increase Your Grip Strength through Bouldering
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
Full disclosure, I could have easily made this list “My 20 Favorite Stretches,” or possibly even 30. I love to stretch. The problem I frequently run into with stretching is making the time for it. My goal in this article is to give a manageable number of stretches that address key muscle groups we use …
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Climb As with most things, you have to practice if you want to improve and pretty much everyone I have ever talked to agrees the best way to get better at climbing is to climb. Sure there are some workouts you can do to get stronger (and we will definitely talk about those too), but …
For as long climbing has been recognized as a sport, loads of articles about the health benefits have pummeled the internet and print. Though buzzwords like “full-body workout” and “cardio” are totally true, there’s a whole host of underrated health benefits that women who rock climb get every time they send. Here are five benefits …
