| Having the strength in your hands and forearms so | | | | mimics climbing. |
| you can hold on to a rock wall is of serious | | | | If you have been doing pull-ups and you feel you |
| importance to your surviving a great day of climbing. | | | | have adequate upper body strength, you can start |
| If your arms are getting tired long before they | | | | doing weighted pull-ups and hangs to increase the |
| should be, you need to start exercising them to be | | | | intensity of hanging. While holding a weight in one |
| more able to increase endurance and help support | | | | hand hang by the other for added difficulty, then |
| you. There are a lot of exercises that you can use | | | | switch to the other arm. |
| to strengthen the grip that are beneficial to climbers. | | | | You need to make sure to exercise your thumb also. |
| Being able to get access to a pull-up bar or | | | | If you have some hand grippers, squeeze them with |
| something similar, you can use it to hang by just the | | | | the tip of your thumb on one handle and the finger |
| tips of your fingers. Allow your full weight to hang on | | | | tips on the other. This will make it more difficult to |
| the bar and try to hold on as long as you can, it | | | | squeeze them and will condition your thumb better |
| would be best to hold on until you are unable to hang | | | | than using them the common way. You should do |
| anymore and your fingers slide off the bar. Pull-ups | | | | grip exercises at least two times a week and you will |
| should also be a part of your training. This is the best | | | | see your grip strength come pretty quick. |
| upper body exercise you can perform that closely | | | | |