Exercise for Climbing: The Importance of Yoga for Rock Climbers
As any climber that has been in the game for long enough knows, healthy shoulders, robust stabilizers, and flexibility are crucial...
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Dovi Hirsch
- Oct 31, 2021
- 3 min
Climbing Endurance Training: Essential Knowledge to Keep You Climbing for Longer
Climbing endurance training is probably our sport’s most common—and most misunderstood—training modality...
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Dovi Hirsch
- Oct 15, 2021
- 3 min
Are You Overtraining? The Answer Is Probably Yes
Here’s the thing: strength gains happen while resting, not training, and so if you don’t do enough of the former, you simply won’t improve.
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Dovi Hirsch
- Oct 4, 2021
- 4 min
Climbing Wall Training: Lock-Off Strength
Step up your climbing wall training program with exercises dedicated to improving lock-off strength. Get the hangboard workout here...
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Dovi Hirsch
- Sep 21, 2021
- 4 min
Climbing Apps: Take Your Climbing Training to the Next Level
Climbing apps make climbing training—and finding new crags—easier than ever. Here are some that we think every climber should know about.
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Dovi Hirsch
- Sep 14, 2021
- 3 min
5 Reasons Why A Freestanding Hangboard Frame is Juuuust Right
The freestanding hangboard has emerged as the Goldilocks solution for those without the space or resources to mount a home climbing wall.
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Dovi Hirsch
- Aug 30, 2021
- 4 min
Which At-Home Climbing Training Gear is Right For You?
What climbing training gear is right for your space and climbing goals? Learn your options in this climbing training focused blog.
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Dovi Hirsch
- Aug 14, 2021
- 4 min
Climbing Training, Olympian Style
How do Olympic rock climbers train for the biggest competition of their lives? Here's what we know about their climbing training programs.
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Dovi Hirsch
- Jul 19, 2021
- 3 min
Climbing Training: Drills That Every Rock Climber Should Be Doing
We don't always have time to visit the gym or crag, but there are plenty of climbing training drills we can do at home to stay in shape...
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Dovi Hirsch
- Jul 5, 2021
- 3 min
How to Stay in Peak Climbing Shape While Traveling
Climbing trips are bad for your climbing. Learn how to maintain your rock climbing training program, while on the road...
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Dovi Hirsch
- Jun 22, 2021
- 4 min
Power vs. Power Endurance vs. Local Endurance: Which Do You Need?
The age-old and best training advice a beginner climber can receive is simply to climb… and climb and climb and climb.
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Dovi Hirsch
- Jun 14, 2021
- 4 min
The 5 Climbing Holds You Need to Maximize Your Home Climbing Wall
Your Rocket Wall home woody has just arrived. Learn which holds you need to get the most out of this climbing training tool.
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Dovi Hirsch
- May 22, 2021
- 4 min
Rock Climbing Injury Prevention & Prehab
Learn how to prevent tendonitis, so it won't interfere with your training program or upcoming climbing trip.
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Dovi Hirsch
- Apr 26, 2021
- 4 min
Change Up that Hangboard Routine: 3 Hangboard Workout Ideas to Try
This past year, climbers have had to get pretty inventive with their hangboard routines. Here are 3 new ideas to change it up...
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Dovi Hirsch
- Apr 20, 2021
- 5 min
What's So Special About Board Training, Anyway?
Training boards are the new cool in climbing. Or, they’re the old cool made new (and cooler). They have lights, interactive apps...
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Dovi Hirsch
- Apr 6, 2021
- 4 min
Training for Rock Climbing: Where Does Cardio Come Into Play?
If you’ve sat around enough climber campfires or hung out in any of the many parking lots turned Sprinter van RV parks around the country...
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Dovi Hirsch
- Mar 1, 2021
- 3 min
Pinch Block Training...For More Than Just Pinch Strength
For all the popularity hangboarding has gained in this past year, it is a wonder that the pinch block hasn’t made a stronger showing.
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Dovi Hirsch
- Feb 18, 2021
- 3 min
A Beginner Hangboard Workout: Get Strong, Not Injured
The first thing any beginner climber reading this should know is that there is no such thing as a beginner hangboard workout...
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Dovi Hirsch
- Feb 10, 2021
- 3 min
Want to Become a Better Climber? Here's the Real Deal…
One of climbing’s basic rules is that routes have grades and the harder they are, the better a climber you need to be to climb them.
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Dovi Hirsch
- Jan 27, 2021
- 3 min
Training Dynamic Strength on a Hangboard
Dynamic strength is what’s needed to pull long, desperate crux moves on small holds. Learn how to build dynamic strength on a hangboard...
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