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Climbing Training for Beginners!

Climbing Training for Beginners!

If you have never trained for climbing before or you have been climbing for less the two years this is the way to go! This short blog shows you the basics of how to balance your climbing time with your workout time to help you become the best climber you can be.

Can perspective make us better rock climbers?

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Can perspective make us better rock climbers?

It is time for us all to reframe. So focus on removing the injury niggles, learn a new warm up routine, improve your core, make a distilled list of the routes you really want to climb. We have time, I hope we can see the opportunity and take action to grab it as it passes.

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Ways to make more of your climbing session : Hands

Ways to make more of your climbing session : Hands

I’ve been getting questions about sore hands. Have you been getting that sore hand feeling too?

This is the way climbing sessions often end, especially at an indoor wall. So how do you get the most out of your hands at the climbing wall? Here are 3 things I have learned about getting the most from the skin on your hands.

Embrace The Coach

Embrace The Coach

Until now climbers have just gone climbing to get better at climbing. In many cases the benefits of pull up routines hanging on door frames and sit ups while watching tv were shared around the climbing community. A kind of haphazard hearsay approach to coaching. In many cases it worked, something worked. Improvements were made and harder climbs were ascended. It is now not uncommon for climbing coaches to have their own coach. Yes, coaches coaching coaches!!! Ben Moon has a coach, Adam Ondra has a coach, even the free spirited Chris Sharma has a coach. I took some time to find out why...