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Metolius Rock Rings 3D Review
Have you ever found yourself going on holiday or on a business trip and you can’t train for two weeks? Metolius have the answer with the Rock Rings 3D. Only weighing two kilograms for a set, these can easily fit into your suitcase. A recent business trip provided me with the ideal opportunity to test [...]
Follow 5 Climbers: Try and Achieve Their 2012 Targets
As part of our training series of articles, we have decided to put the principles into action and see if we can help a group of climbers achieve their goals for the year. We have started by looking at things like their diet, body fat levels, current training structure, current climbing grade, strengths and weaknesses, [...]
Steve McClure on Training Power Endurance
As part of our training series this week we are going to focus on power endurance. Often overlooked by many climbers, training power endurance, is critical to getting you up most UK sport routes where the hard sections are usually no more than 10 to 30 moves. Steve McClure needs little introduction to most climbers. [...]
Moon Original School Holds
I have been in need of adding some new holds to my board for a while, to allow me to start to create some new and harder problems. After looking around I decided to try the Moon School Room holds set. A single set costs £100, which includes 40 handholds and 10 footholds. This represents [...]
Turbo Charged New Year’s Training Resolutions
With the arrival of the New Year, now’s a perfect time to plan your rock climbing objectives for 2012 and develop a training program that will help achieve them. These objectives can be anything from doing your first E1, increasing your climbing grade from 7a to 7c or doing a specific route. Using a Scoring [...]
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