HOW TO TRAIN FOR CLIMBING IN ~5 EASY MINUTES!

HERE'S A VIDEO OF ME CLIMBING OUTSIDE IN RED ROCKS, NV A MONTH AGO 🏖🌞

ACTUALLY JUST KIDDING 💩

Once you learn the basic and efficient techniques for climbing rocks outside or on plastic holds in the gym, you normally reach a progress plateau that takes additional years of structured training to slowly improve upon.

Like with most sports, it can take several years to reach beyond an intermediate ability level.

Genetics does play a role so some people are strong climbers early on a.k.a. THE LITTLE MUTANTS. 👹

HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF SOMEONE CRUSHIN' IT

SUP@ SQUAMISH, BC! 🌲

SO, HOW TO IMPROVE?

First just climb for fun until you stop improving. 😵

Then identify your climbing goals and the physiological attributes you'll need to train to complete those goals.

Create a structured training plan you can do at the climbing gym that helps target those weaknesses...and turn them into new strengths! 💪🏻

Keep climbing for fun around training days! Training is mentally and physically taxing and motivation is key for maintaining any training program. 🥑

A FEW KEY CATEGORIES YOU CAN TRAIN

1. Technique ✨

2. Strength 🦁

3. Power 💥

4. Power endurance (Anaerobic) 🦅

5. "Normal" endurance (Aerobic) 🐢

6. Ridiculously high psych level 🍆🍆

STRENGTH IS THE BASE, EVERYTHING ELSE FOLLOWS 🍔

1. For climbing, you'll want to mainly target the core, upper body, and above all else...THE FANGERS. 🖕🏻✌🏻

2. TRX CORE + DEADLIFTS, WEIGHTED PULLUPS, AND FINGERBOARDING. 

HERE ARE SOME STRENGTH EXERCISE CLIPS

CAMPUSING IS FOR POWER😤

1. Developed by some weird German climber named Wolfgang Güllich in the late 80's. You climb up and down simple wooden rungs. So sick.
2. By not using feet, you intensify the forces on your arms and fingers and more readily attain a plyometric effect.
3. Plyometrics are like a slingshot effect on your muscles when they are under load, and are effective at recruiting fast twitch muscle fibers.

HERE IS SOME DOUBLE-CLUTCH CAMPUSING

Strength and power are essential attributes for bouldering, but they don't really address the endurance needs of sport and traditional climbing.

Endurance can be trained via Aerobic Restoration and Capillarity climbing ("ARCing", sustained but easy climbing for 10-20 minutes each set), interval climbing (more intense but shorter), and many other protocols.

Anaerobic and aerobic endurance is key for climbs that require more than 30 seconds of continuously difficult movement.

LIMESTONE SPORT CLIMBING ACTION 👍🏻

WHAT IS PSYCH ?

CLIMBERS LOVE THEIR WEIRD-ASS SLANG WORDS.

"Keep the psych mega high bro. Heard on insta that you're close to firing your mega proj and it's making my tips really sweaty. Sick drop knee move on the crux, the beta is pretty gnar dude." -Me af

KEEP ENTHUSIASM HIGH WITH PLENTY OF >7% BEERS (Seattle already has great tap water) AND PEANUT BUTTER. 🥜🍩

HERE'S A SWEET SANDSTONE "RIG" FROM JOE'S VALLEY, UT.

THANKS FOR LETTING ME SHARE A BIT ABOUT MY FAVORITE HOBBY BRUHZ 😎