Strength Training Blog Posts
Do it Anyway! Working Your Weakness
Everyone knows success feels good in climbing. It can be really tempting to stick to a certain style, hold type, ect. that continues to result in sends. However, if you really want to improve as a climber its important to [...]
The Three Training Phases for Climbing
Most climbers understand that training for a three move boulder problem and training for a 40 meter route require different approaches. With this in mind, here's an article from the Moon Climbing website that breaks down three training phases for [...]
Climb Strong: Revisiting the Intermediate Bouldering Program
Most training programs are scaled for novices, intermediates, and experts. If I had to guess, we are all guilty at times of ignoring the novice and intermediate programs because we think that the advanced program is the one that will [...]
Freebie Power Endurance Workout
Can you do all the moves on your project, but are still failing because you can't seem to link them all together? This may be because you need to work more on your power endurance. With that in mind, here [...]
Good Quality Training with Steve Bechtel
For dedicated climbers, it can be tempting to climb and train too much in an effort to improve. However, simply increasing the volume without thinking things through is a quick path to over training, wasted effort, and injury. Steve Bechtel [...]
Avoid Overtraining: Only Ondra Should Train Like Ondra
We all want to improve at climbing, get strong, and send more. That's probably why you came to this site in the first place. In an effort to improve, it can be really temping to simply try to train more [...]
Freebie Core Workout: Bouldering Strength and Power Training
Have you ever been out climbing and had that thought, "If my core was stronger, I bet these moves would feel easier"? We've had those thoughts too. So let us help.... This is a screenshot of one of the core workouts [...]
How Breathing Can Increase Your Strength and Power
Is breathing something you think about while you are climbing? When you are watching a friend from the ground do you shout "BREATHE!" as a form of encouragement? Most climbers understand that breathing while climbing is important as it allows [...]
5 Things You Can Do to Improve Your Bouldering
Looking to improve your bouldering performance but not sure where to start or what to do? Neil Gresham, one of Britain's best known climbers, wrote this article from the ukclimbing.com site, giving a quick 5-point checklist for doing exactly that. He talks [...]
Climbing Technique for Shorter Climbers
Last week we posted and article written by Dana Bleiberg for Climb On, Sister! in which she outlined some of the exercises she does to help her cope with being a shorter climber. Well luckily for any shorter climbers out there, Dana [...]