Posts Tagged ‘rock climbing training’
Ryan Pasquill on Training for Climbing
Bigstone the UK agency for Arc’teryx, Smartwool and Five Ten have arranged for us to interview their team climber Ryan Pasquill. Ryan is best known for his auditious E8 flashes of Countdown to Disaster, End of the Affair, Gaia and Cornelius. His most recent gritstone test piece Gerty Berwick E9 7a solved one of Gritstones [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Rock climbing training – Toughening and repairing your fingers
Aside from the obvious aches and pains, I’m sure that if you ask any regular rock climber, the pain they’re all keen to avoid is damage to the skin on their hands and fingers. Climbing places a great deal of stress on your skin, which can easily lead to painful sores or tears. This week I would like to give you some tips on how to toughen up your skin to prevent such injuries. Next week I’ll tell you how best to heal them quickly if you do happen suffer with them.
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