Nutrition Posts

Rock and Ice is running a climbing nutrition series featuring sports dietitian and personal trainer Marisa Michael. We recently shared the first article in the series which covered snacks that you can use for quick energy at the crag. While [...]

We all know that we need to eat to properly fuel our bodies. Despite this knowledge, many of us still drastically under fuel ourselves on climbing days. Not having enough crag snacks can quickly sabotage performance, lead to much shorter climbing [...]

If you've made your way to TrainingBeta, then chances are you're looking to improve your climbing performance. As climbers, we can be pretty maniacal in our pursuit of higher and higher grades. For many of us, manipulating our diet in an [...]

In his ongoing series on weight loss, Brian Rigby of Climbing Nutrition has been exploring the topic from a variety of different viewpoints. His aim is to take the complicated world of nutrition and distill it down to what is [...]

Sure, being light and lean is good for climbing performance. However, as climbers, we are athletes and, as athletes, we shouldn't just be looking for a quick way to shed a couple pounds. Instead, we should be looking to optimize [...]

As climbers, we all want to be lite, lean, and as strong as possible. These desires have led many climbers to lose weight in the name of climber performance (both in healthy and unhealthy ways). That being said, not everyone [...]

As climbers, we all want to get stronger, but we also want to stay light and lean. Attempting to balance these desires has made climbers look at main-stream exercises supplements, like protein shakes, with some serious suspicion. Climbers often feel [...]

We all know that we need protein to fuel our climbing and training.  However, the real questions are how much protein do we need and is protein supplementation beyond our basic needs going to improve our climbing performance? To help [...]