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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Dovi Hirsch
- Jan 20, 2021
- 3 min
Hangboard vs. System Board: The Pros & Cons
Which is better: the hangboard or the system board? Well, they both have their pros and cons. Let’s explore each of these tools...
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Dovi Hirsch
- Jan 12, 2021
- 3 min
New Year, New Climbing Training Program: How to Stick with It
January: the worst month of the year on the climber’s calendar. The holiday weight gain is real; lost training days have you out of shape...
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Dovi Hirsch
- Jan 4, 2021
- 5 min
The Art of the Home Climbing Wall: The Good, the Bad, and the Downright Dangerous
If nothing else came out of 2020, a wide range of home climbing walls were built. Some were epic. Some were, uh, not so epic. And some were
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Dovi Hirsch
- Dec 22, 2020
- 4 min
So...How Long Until That Climbing Training Program Starts to Pay Off?
We would love to say that your climbing training program is going to start paying off tomorrow, or in a week, or maybe early next month. But
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Dovi Hirsch
- Dec 15, 2020
- 4 min
The Best Affordable Hangboard
The best affordable hangboard is the one you'll actually use. But here are a few suggestions to help you start shopping for a hangboard for
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Dovi Hirsch
- Nov 30, 2020
- 5 min
Holiday Gift Ideas for Rock Climbers
by Christopher Schafenacker If you or a loved one has experimented with rock climbing, you know the activity is all-consuming and highly...
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Dovi Hirsch
- Nov 23, 2020
- 4 min
Rock Climbing Workouts for Your Freestanding Home Climbing Wall
The Coronavirus pandemic has been a less-than-ideal situation for pretty much everyone, but especially us climbers. Since March, we...
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Dovi Hirsch
- Nov 11, 2020
- 4 min
Setting Tips for Home Climbing Walls: Get the Most Out of Your Woody
By Christopher Schafenacker There’s nothing like installing a home climbing wall to relieve the pandemic blues and crank your psych back...
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Dovi Hirsch
- Oct 26, 2020
- 5 min
A Seriously Killer Rock Climbing Workout
A seriously killer rock climbing workout to address both muscular strength and neural system adaptation.
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Dovi Hirsch
- Oct 19, 2020
- 3 min
Rock Climbing Workout: Core Strength Edition
Rock climbing is an elegant yet powerful activity, requiring a wide range of differing physical demands. In order to perform vertically...
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Dovi Hirsch
- Sep 25, 2020
- 4 min
Strength Training for Bouldering
by Christopher Schafenacker You wouldn’t be alone if you read that title and thought, Wait, isn’t bouldering, itself, strength training...
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Dovi Hirsch
- Sep 18, 2020
- 5 min
Beyond ARC Training: How to Train Power Endurance on a Hangboard
The explosive growth of training programs for climbing has also meant the development of efficient and effective protocols for home training
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Dovi Hirsch
- Sep 2, 2020
- 4 min
Getting the Most out of That Home Climbing Wall
So, you invested in a home climbing wall. Great! Now...here's how to get the very most out of it so you roll back up to the crag strong AF.
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Dovi Hirsch
- Aug 16, 2020
- 5 min
Grow Your Climbing While Stuck at Home: Stability, Mobility, and Nutrition
Covid-19 has not been kind to climbers. While this is no tragedy on a national scale (or on any scale, really), it's been tough on climbers.
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Dovi Hirsch
- Aug 11, 2020
- 3 min
Rockstar Volumes: Where the Craving for Climbing Collided with Woodworking
It was Mark Twain who famously said, “Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” That being said,...
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Dovi Hirsch
- Jul 24, 2020
- 4 min
No Equipment Necessary: 10 Body Weight Exercises for Rock Climbers
Climbing performance goes hand-in-hand with training consistency. I don’t know about you, but consistency is the last thing I’ve seen...
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Dovi Hirsch
- Jul 19, 2020
- 2 min
The Top 5 Most Creative Ways that Climbers Have Been Training at Home
Once the crags and gyms closed at the beginning of the pandemic, it didn’t take climbers long to figure out how to get their climbing fix in
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