Committing to certain moves on the wall can be challenging, when you hit that point of fear or feeling stuck. We are going to offer a bit of perspective on this and some tips to work through it.
At some point during our climbing we start to be introduced to holds that are not positive, they don’t have an in-cut section for your fingers to grip onto. Slopers are all about body position and even tension being applied between hands and feet.
Shoulders are the most mobile and complex joint in the human body, but what they need in order to be properly warmed up and functioning well can be quite simple.
Finger strains or sprains are usually caused by a few things: climbing too hard moves while fatigued, lack of finish position control, too much repetition on a certain hold type, or the level of effort required to hold a hold exceeds the level of condition of your fingers.
As we are exposed to longer term isolations, with less and less availability of climbing, the question “what can I do to not lose everything I have spent the last few years working towards?” comes up a lot.
Projecting is an important part of most climbing journeys. Unlike climbing in competitions or in training, pure projecting is unpressured and usually becomes a personal goal for climbers.
One of the biggest challenges that a lot of climbers face is how to gain a lot of strength without gaining weight. At the end of the day climbing is a relative strength sport: how hard can you pull, push, and move yourself around while remaining as light or nimble as you can.
Whether you like to admit it or not, overcoming the risks and challenges that climbing presents is a huge part of why you climb, this blog is going to touch on the following points on how to maximise the chance of you staying injury free.
Static Stretch, the uncomfortable kind of move to a stretch and hold for a minute or 2 that feels like a lifetime. Dynamic Stretch, the 80’s football kind, like swinging your leg back and forth, slowly moving to greater ranges of motion.
