Posts Tagged ‘Training’
Arc’teryx Alpine Academy – Chamonix, France, 8-10 June 2012
Arc’teryx Equipment invites you to embrace the history and the future of mountaineering during three days of Alpine experiences intended to educate and inspire anyone with an interest in the mountains. The Aiguille du Midi in Chamonix is the alpine base Arc’teryx has chosen to host an educational weekend for those interested in becoming more [...]
Heart Rate, A Barometer of Health
Introduction This article is inspired by an athlete you’ve probably never heard of, yet was at one point the greatest athlete in his sport, in addition to being analogous to the greatest athletes of all time. David Palmer, a professional squash player from Lithgow, Australia recently retired from the sport at the beginning of November, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
12 week progression to insane grip strength – guest post by Paul Wilson
I learned from Charles Poliquin that you should be able to train your forearms daily. If we were unable to use them daily – we wouldn’t have any mechanics to fix our cars. Right? Hey guys, my name is Paul Wilson and I am locally known in the West Midlands for my fat loss programmes [...]
Product review – The Livestrong ‘Calorie Tracker’ iPhone app
I’m one of those people that has to watch their weight – fact! Relatively short periods of careless munching quickly forms as a nice layer of fat around my middle – the last thing you need as a climber! Last Christmas was a good example, I managed to put on a good 4kg. I’m usually [...]
FigFour – Training aid for mixed climbing and dry tooling
For those of you who are unfamiliar with FigFour: Figfour is a specialized training aid for mixed climbing and dry tooling. Designed to allow climbers to accurately replicate the actions of mixed climbing indoors, without damaging the resin holds or base panels of existing climbing surfaces with the sharp picks found on traditional ice axes. [...]
Climbing book review – Training for Climbing by Eric J Horst
I really want to get better at climbing. I’ve become obsessed with improvement. I even gave up my previous job to allow me more time to better my climbing. I’m not terrible at it, but I’m not great either. Like most people I started climbing and enjoyed rapid improvement until I reached a sticking point. [...]
Mind Coaching for climbing performance at the Harrogate Climbing Wall
As we’re now approaching winter many of us hibernate indoors into the many climbing walls around the country investing time, effort and money in order to maintain and improve our climbing performance. It is a reasonable assumption to say that the majority of climbers focus on their physical performance and less on improving the psychological [...]
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