Re-Gram: 9 Climbing Training Tricks
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Photo Gallery: 9 Climbing Training Tricks

Squeezing in pinch-training and shoulder-press exercises at work.
—Favia Dubyk

Finger-strength training à la A-Clamps.
—Chloe Fitzmaurice

My partner Daniel and I climb on abandoned buildings for training.
—Maria Yudin

This is me on an FA at The Crash Pad climber hostel in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
—Brendan Baars

I know a perfect splitter when I see one.
—Chancelor Roberts

I have yet to smash the pane of glass above my bedroom door with my axes. It’ll happen at some point, I’m sure.
—Rebecca Lloyd

Heel hooking around the Bridge Traverse at our gîte as part of our post-climb cool-down in Font.
—Sam Milner

There’s always something to climb if you’re motivated enough.
—Amanda Ashley

It’s not really a climbing-training picture, but it’s still pretty cool.
—Tobias Rau
Climbers engage in some odd training activities, from urban climbing, to climbing around a bench without touching the ground, to indoor dry-tooling. Our readers submitted their silly stunts.