Rock Climbing Training

Rock climbing training aims to provide the balance between physical fitness and mental preparation. Keep in mind three important muscle functions you can focus on during your training: endurance, strength, and burst. Finding the balance with these muscle functions provide flexibility and the ability of a climber, depending on the nature of the climbing activity. Before performing any specific rock climbing training, know and analyze your body condition. Refer to a full medical checkup and know where you can improve on, minimizing possible consequences when adopting a certain training routine. Understand and know about the methods by which you can focus and train on particular muscle functions demanded in your climbing activity. Here are some training tips to achieve the balance in strength, endurance, and burst in rock climbing:

Rock Climbing Training: Strength
Focusing on your strength increases the ability to conquer overhanging, negative sloping, and long-reach moves in climbing. In this type of training, you focus on maximizing the muscles capability to resists in a repetitive fashion to increase muscle strength. Muscles synthesize more contractile protein, consequently increasing strength. You can achieve this training by doing climbing-wise routines, or in the gym using weights. Note that repetition is the key to achieve muscle strength, and make sure that you use weights appropriate for the activity and the level of your body condition.

Rock Climbing Training: Endurance
The body is not a machine which can endure strenuous activity. The aim of endurance training is to increase or improve your body’s ability to tolerate strenuous activities. It is important to know how muscles work in any routine. In endurance training, keep in mind that continuous low resistance exercises enables the muscles to prepare for more demanding activity. You can progress in this activity by intensifying the kind of exercise or prolonging the time you do it.

Rock Climbing Training: Aerobic Capacity
As mentioned, rock climbing requires both physical fitness and mental preparation. Both should need to improve to be able to conquer challenges in any climbing activity. Aerobic capacity ensures that the balance between strength and endurance. This can be achieved with a circuit and interval training.

Keep in mind that any rock climbing training exercise requires adequate warm-up and stretching to prepare the body. Also remember to do a cooling down routine after each specific exercise.

By: Roz Curtis

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Roz Curtis has been practicing rock climbing for five years and writes articles for ABC-of-RockClimbing. Feel free to become a part of their community.