Weight Management for Climbers

It’s Neely here, and since I’m a nutritionist, of course weight management is going to be an interesting topic to me. And since you’re a climber, it’s also probably an interesting topic to you 😉

Weight does have some bearing on how well we climb, whether we like it or not. Get too thin, though, and you start losing power (and the will to live sometimes). The Anderson brothers, authors of the Rock Climber’s Training Manual and creators of the Rock Prodigy Training Center hangboard, have their own pretty staunch opinions on weight management for climbers.

In my podcast interview with Mike and Mark Anderson a while back (I promise I’ll have them on the podcast again!), we talked about it quite a bit, so you can listen to that if you want.

Also, though, they wrote a blog post on their site rockclimberstrainingmanual.com covering their basic beliefs about the importance of body weight and rock climbers, some general guidelines to follow, and how to learn more about the topic. They talk about what’s too thin, what’s overweight for a climber, when to be skinny and when to let yourself “go” a little bit.

I tend to agree with them on a lot of what they say, and you can read all about weight management for climbers in my article “How to Lose Weight for Climbing.”

Anyway, read what the Anderson brothers have to say about it and let us know what you think in the comments!