Health

A slow, steady, and multi-phased warmup will prepare your body to work hard and make your training safer and more efficient. (From 2015)

Feeling tweaks, aches, and pains? Finding it hard to finish your workouts? Believe that more climbing, more hangboarding, more movement is better? You may be experiencing exercise addiction.

Some love a nice cold beer after a long day's crimping. Others worry it will limit their strength gains. Who's right?

Grupper had a breakout season on the World Cup circuit, nearly taking the overall lead title; but he’s still unsure about how his climbing helps humanity.

You can climb even harder when you get older, but you need to follow a specific training plan that balances endurance, strength, and power equally—emphasis on plan.

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

A comprehensive guide to skin care for rock climbing.

Alcohol and climbing have a long history. A nutritionist dives into the pros and cons of crag drinks.

"In a community that’s fixated on optimizing health and performance, I was heartbroken to realize how many people were barely hanging on."

Steve Hong, prolific first ascentionist and career dermatologist, explains the best way to heel splits, gobies, and worn tips

A 5.9 climber recruits the best climbing coaches in America to see if he can jump two number grades in two months. Here’s what he learned.

How skinny do we really need to be to crush? Where do you draw the line between strategic dieting and an unhealthy eating disorder?

Achieve even strength on both sides of your upper body for harder sends

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Climbing your best requires finding alignment between what you eat, when you eat, and what you're trying to do.

Climbers often try to increase their strength-to-weight ratios by simply cutting calories. But not all calories were created equal.

If you match your nutrition to your training, you’re all but guaranteed to benefit.

More climbers than ever are working from home—and are feeling the strain of 40 hours behind a computer. Here's how to rest up.

More climbers than ever are working from home—and are feeling the strain of 40 hours behind a computer. Here's how to rest up.

What you should know about relative energy deficiency in sport (RED-S)

The climbing community has an eating-disorder problem—but will there ever be a solution?

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Check out Kevin Corrigan's author page.

When the air at the crag smells like campfire, experts recommend waiting out the wildfires before you return. Your lungs will thank you.

Check out Alyssa Neill, RDN's author page.

A team at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus tested 80-percent ethanol liquid chalk on SARS-CoV-2 and found that it cleared 100-percent of the virus within five minutes

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As the COVID-19 curve flattens in certain regions, restrictions are loosening and climbing areas are opening once again, though it’s not a free-for-all.

Climbing gyms and other businesses have begun to reopen in Georgia, though some experts have suggested that it's too soon amid the COVID-19 crisis.

Eating disorders, dangerous dieting, and bad body images run rampant in the climbing community. We’re all playing a game with gravity, but what happens when we push our bodies and minds into unhealthy territory—and how do we stop it?

Check out Matt Samet's author page.

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Check out Kevin Corrigan's author page.

Check out Kevin Corrigan's author page.

Are they messing with your performance?

Is there a superior way to change our bodies for climbing performance?

Fixes for climber aches and pains

Check out Brian Rigby's author page.

Check out Brian Rigby's author page.

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Most climbers are not actively pursuing weight loss, but their diets passively reflect the desire to be light, which can hold them back.

Advanced female athletes are most at risk for eating disorders, a new survey reveals

Eat smart to fill your belly and send your hardest

Check out Dr. Jared Vagy's author page.

Check out Dr. Jared Vagy's author page.

Put some sway in your seat for better posture at work.

Check out Dr. Jared Vagy's author page.

Check out Dr. Jared Vagy's author page.

Part one of a weekly five part series about outside elbow pain (lateral epicondylosis).

Heather Weidner shares 5 ways to stay healthy on a meat-free diet.

The ups and downs of mountain travel. Learn altitude’s effects on the body to combat mountain sickness.

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Regulate water Intake to save weight

Ditch your meal-replacement bars. Eat cookies.

Check out Liz Haas's author page.

Check out Liz Haas's author page.

Give your favorite climber improved performance with this eating plan

Eat properly for climbing performance.

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Check out Heidi Wirtz's author page.

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Get all-day power or quick recovery with this simple, healthy meal

Climb stronger and longer by training your heart

Supplement nitrate to climb faster, harder, and longer

Modify standard exercises for climbing-focused gains

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Prevent common injuries with simple movement and technique upgrades

Weight loss and weight gain are not so narrowly divided, however; it’s not as much a balancing act as you may believe.

Thinking about weight loss? Begin here

What the heck do those numbers mean anyway?