Skills

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Indoor training has its perks, but jumping from plastic to natural rock may shock the system. Train your brain to adapt.

Send more routes first go with savvy planning and execution.

How long, how much, how often — everyone has an opinion. Here's how to get the most out of your training.

Studies have shown that the common technique of wrapping fingers to support the tendons doesn't work. Here's a better way.

Want to increase your maximum strength and power? Would you like to feel stronger on small handholds and increase your prowess on dynamic moves? Are you stuck in a performance plateau and need a boost to surmount it?

Everything you need to know about this faster version of climbing.

Sleep hard, climb harder with these handy camping snoozing tips.

Prevent injuries bouldering by learning to fall, place pads, spot, and customize landing zones.

So how does that pink V5 in the gym’s corner stack up against outdoor boulders?

What you think you need for training and nutrition could be wrong.

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The balancing act of choosing home wall holds, according to one rain-soaked Oregon climber.

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Struggling to nab tricky heel hooks? Or feeling like you can’t toe-in on steep climbs? These exercises, from Favia Dubyk, will help.

"Not only will your warm-up help safeguard you from injury, it’s the single biggest factor in determining how well you climb on any given day."

Descending at maximum efficiency on long routes should include lowering techniques as well as rappelling. Here's how to make it work.

A comprehensive guide to skin care for rock climbing.

Should climbers strength train for hypertrophy? This is Part II of a science-based series on how to train smarter to climb better.

Use a long cordelette or sling to create a fast, safe, and self-equalizing quad anchor

Staying healthy and fit as you age needn't be a mystery. Here's how to do it.

Straps and rings aren't just for gymnasts. These six simple drills require no added weight and will bump your redpoint grade in just months.

Injuring your digital nerves through climbing can create numbness. The real question is when (or whether) it will go away.

The main thing that scientists have learned in the last decade is that we can use nutrition to trigger the release of the specific enzymes or hormones that play vital roles in the processes of getting strong or improving endurance.

Want to enhance your rappelling skillset? Build better anchors? Perfect your gear placements? Crush your first multi-pitch?

Slopers may be harder to use than edges, but a climber can learn and practice how to use them, and the knowledge is part of being versatile and able to climb anywhere. Sooner or later, you will encounter them.

Climbing gyms are great. But you can also train for climbing by climbing outside. Here are eight tips from veteran crusher Chris Schulte.

Training produces harmful free radicals. Counter them with antioxidants.

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Hangboard training is one of the most efficient, effective ways to improve finger strength. Here's how to get started, safely and in good style.

We all seem to have some notion, likely passed on by a mentor or seen in a climbing video, of how long to rest between boulder problems or pitches, especially at max effort. But do these “tried and true” rules really hold up? And could we be resting smarter?

Most climbers think that being good at onsighting means being good at improvising beta and hanging on for the ride. But the world's best don't just rely solely on improvisation: they map the route beforehand, from the ground.

Upper-body work is the backbone of climbing training, but an inobvious key to success could be stronger legs.

These all-too-common climbing mistakes could kill you, hurt you, beat you down, delay your send, or ruin your reputation.

Becoming a pescatarian, or replacing much of a red-meat diet with fish, has numerous benefits for climbers.

Solid on 5.9 gear routes? Ready for the greatest adventure of your life? From hauling to lower-outs and poop tubes, our step-by-step guide will show you the way.

Went too hard on your Saturday redpoint burn? Feeling too sore for another attempt on Sunday? Turn the second-day-on blues into pain-free sending prowess with a few minutes of yoga.

Rappelling in alpine terrain can be the crux of big routes. Stuck ropes, high winds, leaving gear... a lot can go wrong. Here are five tips to stack your odds.

Campusing has clear benefits for improved contact strength and explosive arm power. Here's how to get started.

Climb and stay injury free by following the doctor's advice.

At a glance, you’d think that these guys and girls might climb on a different planet than you do, yet a closer inspection may surprise you.

The double bowline gets a bad rap—here's how to use it correctly

Author Alison Osius, a senior editor at Climbing, has been climbing hard and writing about it for decades. Here are five crucial things she's learned.

Visualization techniques for improving recovery and pushing limits.

Step-by-step tutorials and uses cases for the figure-8, prusik, clove hitch, munter hitch, and more

We may think that because we participate in a physically difficult sport that vitamins will help make up for high output. Think again.

The causes of climbing injuries often fall into predictable patterns, and are preventable by taking a few simple precautions.

If you can do a one-arm (or ten) but only boulder V7, it's time to train the technical side of climbing.

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A comprehensive analysis of 30 years worth of data of climbing accidents recorded in Accidents in North American Climbing.

“There is no avalanche danger unless a human is there,” said Dick Jackson of Aspen Expeditions at the start of a Level 1 avalanche course.

Expert instruction on how to get started on the rock—in the gym.

When we're in a flow state we not only climb our best but also feel our best—it doesn’t matter if we fail because we know we could not have done any better.

Training can get boring, or you're on the road and don't have access to your usual workout. These exercises can keep you fresh and you can do them just about anywhere.

Staying in balance-neutral (and in control) on your return to Earth is mission critical to walking away.

Bouldering psychotherapy is gaining traction because the sport is unique in its easy access and ability to draw out emotions.

Instructions on how to build a home crack training system for all your crack climbing training needs.

Turn your scrappy home gym into a mega gym, build a hand-jam trainer, repair your gear, and loads of other tips for better climbing and a stronger you.

Climbing has significant social, physiological, and developmental benefits for children and young adults. But there are also things they should avoid. And things you should avoid as a parent or a coach.

No matter how experienced you are, gravity never sleeps. Stay safe and stay vigilant with these 10 time-tested tips.

Looking to climb glaciated or snow-covered peaks? These snow anchors will keep you secure on high-consequence terrain.

It's the dead of winter, you're bored, tired of the cold, and unmotivated. Use coach's tips to get back in your game, now!

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The dark art of slab climbing is both incredibly frustrating and fantastically rewarding. Here, Bob Gaines dishes on the secrets.

Climbing is literally a steep learning curve. This boxed set of advice will flatten the bell, helping you to become a better climber by smoothing out your footwork, teaching you to think outside the box—there's even sections on crack and slab climbing, and 25 tips to improve your belaying.

As a human you are programmed to climb, but your intuition isn't always correct.

It’s tempting to supplement “just to see if it helps.” But your supplements could be doing more harm than good, especially to your pocketbook.

At last, a comprehensive training plan from professional climbing coach Neil Gresham. This program guides you through the entire year and everyone can do it regardless of age, ability or experience.

Expressive writing may lead to faster recovery from injuries. It helps you organize your thoughts, de-stress, and stay motivated.

Power-endurance conditioning will give you the fitness required for sustained climbing sequences of between 15 and 40 moves, typically encountered on sport routes.

For the sixth phase we’re returning to low-intensity endurance to top up our fitness levels for longer routes.

If you stuck with the first four phases in this ongoing series, you should be feeling fit and ready to start strength training.

You’ve been training all year long. Now it’s time to focus on the skill element and see if the hard work has paid off.

Welcome to the Climbing's yearlong training plan. This eight-phase series will present specific workouts based on the principles of periodization, a proven approach to training that results in peak performance. Each six-week segment will build upon the previous with the end result being a better, stronger climbing machine—you.

Welcome to the Climbing's yearlong training plan. This eight-phase series will present specific workouts based on the principles of periodization, a proven approach to training that results in peak performance. Each six-week segment will build upon the previous with the end result being a better, stronger climbing machine—you.

Welcome to the Climbing's yearlong training plan. This eight-phase series will present specific workouts based on the principles of periodization, a proven approach to training that results in peak performance. Each six-week segment will build upon the previous with the end result being a better, stronger climbing machine—you.

How you hold the rope is just one aspect of the belay and no more or less important than vigilance, rope management, and how and where you stand.

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In these three short videos you'll learn the secure way to move from steep ice to slabby, tricks for rigging an ice anchor, and how to get the best performance from your ice picks.

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