Why Rock Climbing Is Different from Other Sports What do an NBA basketball player, a gold medal runner, and a professional tennis player have in common? They are each incredibly fit. And that fitness will not ensure they can climb well. Rock climbing is a skill-based activity, primarily. Fitness matters, but if you are a highly skilled rock climber who is reasonably fit, you can probably still climb at a high level. The opposite is not true. You probably cannot send 5.12 slab without good footwork technique, no matter how many pull-ups you can do.This is the fundamental reality of…
Author: Steve House
The most time- and energy-efficient training tool for building climbing-specific grip strength is a hangboard. If you don’t have one at home, I’m sure your climbing gym has several. I own two boards, both from Metolius: the newer Contact Training Board, which I love for the huge variety of incrementally smaller-size grips, and the longtime standard, their Simulator 3D, which has somewhat easier grips. Read more: Training for Rock Climbing Hangboard Training Routine This little hangboard routine is one I made for myself for those times I first begin to think about rock climbing, usually sometime in March and again…