Strength Training Blog Posts
Gym Rope Training for Power
Whether you are a route climber or a boulder, it's not a secret that improving your upper body power will help you progress to climbing in the higher grades. However, how exactly to train power for climbing isn't as clear. [...]
Compression Climbing with Chris Schulte
If you're a newer climber or have never really bouldered before, then compression climbing (climbing the relies on squeezing apposing features together) can feel hard an counterintuitive. To help, here's an article from Climbing Magazine by professional climber and compression [...]
Complex Training with Steve Maisch
Can you hold onto small holds, but struggle to latch them when moving to them dynamically? If you do then chances are you are lacking in contact strength. To help you better train contact strength, here's an article by climber [...]
Maintaining Strength During the Climbing Season
When the weather gets good and conditions are perfect, it becomes really difficult to spend your time training instead of getting outside to climb on your project. While you obviously should capitalize on the sending conditions, maintaining strength during the [...]
Alex Puccio’s Road to Recovery
Alex Puccio is one of the world's top female boulders both outdoors and in competitions. Unfortunately, last year, when warming up for the Vail World Cup, she fell awkwardly and tore her ACL, MCL, and meniscus. However, through some serious [...]
Injury-Free Movement for Rock Climbers
If you're a psyched rock climber, there's really nothing worse than having to take large portions of time off climbing just to rehab injuries. While climbing injuries do happen, one of your main training goals should be actively preventing and [...]
8 Functional Strength Training Exercises for Climbing
For most of us, when we think of training for climbing, we think of exercises that are climbing specific like fingerboarding and 4x4s. However, if you look at any other sport, we see athletes incorporating functional strength training that is [...]
Freebie Shoulder Workout
An unfortunate reality of climbing and training is that it can leave us injured and unable to continue progressing in our sport. While there are loads of different ways you can injure yourself climbing, one of the most common areas [...]
Do Less – Climb Strong
Almost all the articles we post on this blog revolve around some type training that you can add into your routine to help you improve. While all of us here at Training Beta definitely believe in training hard to reach our [...]
Eva Lopez Finger Strength Training
As climbers, we all know that having strong fingers is important for climbing harder routes and boulders. When we first start climbing, we develop finger strength just through climbing. However, eventually, these gains level off and if you are really looking [...]