| Rock climbing training aims to provide the balance | | | | gym using weights. Note that repetition is the key to |
| between physical fitness and mental preparation. | | | | achieve muscle strength, and make sure that you |
| Keep in mind three important muscle functions you | | | | use weights appropriate for the activity and the level |
| can focus on during your training: endurance, | | | | of your body condition. |
| strength, and burst. Finding the balance with these | | | | Rock Climbing Training: Endurance |
| muscle functions provide flexibility and the ability of a | | | | The body is not a machine which can endure |
| climber, depending on the nature of the climbing | | | | strenuous activity. The aim of endurance training is to |
| activity. Before performing any specific rock climbing | | | | increase or improve your body's ability to tolerate |
| training, know and analyze your body condition. Refer | | | | strenuous activities. It is important to know how |
| to a full medical checkup and know where you can | | | | muscles work in any routine. In endurance training, |
| improve on, minimizing possible consequences when | | | | keep in mind that continuous low resistance exercises |
| adopting a certain training routine. Understand and | | | | enables the muscles to prepare for more demanding |
| know about the methods by which you can focus | | | | activity. You can progress in this activity by |
| and train on particular muscle functions demanded in | | | | intensifying the kind of exercise or prolonging the |
| your climbing activity. Here are some training tips to | | | | time you do it. |
| achieve the balance in strength, endurance, and burst | | | | Rock Climbing Training- Aerobic Capacity |
| in rock climbing: | | | | As mentioned, rock climbing requires both physical |
| Rock Climbing Training: Strength | | | | fitness and mental preparation. Both should need to |
| Focusing on your strength increases the ability to | | | | improve to be able to conquer challenges in any |
| conquer overhanging, negative sloping, and long-reach | | | | climbing activity. Aerobic capacity ensures that the |
| moves in climbing. In this type of training, you focus | | | | balance between strength and endurance. This can |
| on maximizing the muscles capability to resists in a | | | | be achieved with a circuit and interval training. |
| repetitive fashion to increase muscle strength. | | | | Keep in mind that any rock climbing training exercise |
| Muscles synthesize more contractile protein, | | | | requires adequate warm-up and stretching to prepare |
| consequently increasing strength. You can achieve | | | | the body. Also remember to do a cooling down |
| this training by doing climbing-wise routines, or in the | | | | routine after each specific exercise. |