Dave MacLeod Campus Training through Injury

Dave MacLeod recently underwent surgery on his ankle and has steadily been working his way back into climbing. Dave recently posted a write up on his blog about his campus training through injury and how he has managed to make steady gains despite his inability to use his injured foot.

“During my surgery rehab I have done a LOT of climbing without my feet. Unsurprisingly I have got a little stronger. I have been training more or less every day for 2-4 hours. Around half the work has been fingerboard and campusboard workouts. I’ve also done some foot-off bouldering on both small and big holds.” – Dave MacLeod

With all this campus training both on the campus rungs and on his home wall, Dave was even able to achieve a personal milestone doing 1-4-7 on his campus board (small Metolius wood grips rungs, 22cm spaced). Definitely inspiring stuff to see someone not only maintaining there climbing form through injury and recovery, but even making some gains along the way.

While this post is on his personal blog, Dave also run the Online Climbing Coach blog which is filled with loads of useful information on training for climbing and definitely worth a look. Watch the video above or click through to take a look and read Dave’s full write up about his time campus training trough his injury and recovery.