Nutrition Posts

For people with a plant based diet or anyone looking for a relatively inexpensive protein source, soy is an attractive option.  However, is soy dangerous?  There is a commonly held belief that consuming too much soy can actually affect hormone levels [...]

Athletes tweaking their diet to maximize performance is nothing new.  However, for whatever reason vegan or vegetarian diets seem to be becoming increasingly more popular amongst climbers.  While there is certainly nothing wrong with this, choosing to follow one of [...]

For many of us, there is little more enjoyable than a nice cold beer after a hard day of climbing.  While how enjoyable this beer is is not up for debate, climbers often like to justify their post climbing beverages [...]

Eating a good healthy recovery meal immediately to shortly after climbing and training is extremely important for our bodies. Doing so gives us the fuel necessary to rebuild our damaged muscles, get stronger, and recover for our next climbing/training session. [...]

With all the information out there about sports nutrition and different diets that will supposedly increase athletic performance, it can be overwhelming to know exactly what's important to focus on when designing your own optimal climbing diet.  However, while performance [...]

Here at Training Beta, we talk a lot about diet and how it can effect performance.  Usually, most of the articles we post deal with the idea of loosing weight as a way to increase climbing performance.  While many of [...]

As climbing revolves in many ways around our strength to weight ratio, it is pretty much impossible to avoid the topic of weight loss when discussing climbing performance and training.  While loosing weight to maximize climbing performance is certainly not [...]

If you spend anytime reading about nutrition and how it can be used to improve athletic performance you're bound to run into a discussion about the glycemic index.  While the glycemic index is in fact relatively simple, understanding this measurement [...]

Earlier this week we posted an article by Brian Rigby of Climbing Nutrition about losing weight for climbing.  In this first article on the subject, Rigby covers the basics principles behind losing weight for climbing and focuses on debunking some [...]