Strength Training

Train anytime, anywhere with this no-equipment-necessary workout

Matt Samet describes his experience in using the MoonBoard to train for his multi-year project in Colorado.

Climbing training is hard and boring, and often requires expensive, specialized equipment. Here's how to get more swole for less work and even less money.

Improve faster and avoid injuries by climbing just below your limit—roughly 80 percent of your maximum ability—about 90 percent of the time.

Endurance can’t be built quickly, yet at some point most of us find ourselves in a jam, with a trip booked and only a few weeks to prepare. What are the best, quick strategies for making the grade?

Gyms are great and all. But you can get just as strong by consciously training during your outdoor sessions.

Five ways to customize hangboard training to make it easier or harder.

Kettlebells are among the best supplemental workouts for targeting climbing fitness. They're also convenient and fast.

Maximum strength training teaches your body to do more with what it already has.

If you live far from the crags or a climbing gym—or find yourself marooned in a “climbing desert”—you need not lose sight of your climbing goals.

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.

This 15 minute "prehab" routine can reduce the rate of shoulder injury and increase your performance on shouldery moves.

Every climber wants stronger fingers, but few really know how to power up our key connectors. Here are tips for getting fingers of steel.

If you can't use the hold, you can't do the move. If you can't do the move, you won't do the route. Nina Williams makes the case for why sport climbers must train power

Michaela Kiersch discusses the importance of running, weight lifting, and injury prevention exercises to her training regimen.

I took Six Weeks To Stronger Fingers And ... It Worked. Check it out.

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

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

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

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.

Basic exercises to increase endurance and lockoff strength

15 minutes to strong shoulders, a stable core, and fewer injuries

Train on a train, at a desk, in the car, in a chair, on the plane. Seriously. You'll actually see benefits.

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

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Is it true that the most effective way to improve your climbing is to simply climb? Yes. At least up to a certain point.

Top climbing coach Dave Wahl's 90 day training program will turn you into a lock-off monster.

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Top climbing coach Dave Wahl's 90 day training program will turn you into a thin-climbing monster during quarantine, and build strength for powerful pressing and compression moves.

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Just a few bits of wood and expert know-how are all you need to master the art of hand jamming.

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Improve performance and reduce the risk of injury by training the muscles that oppose typical climbing muscle.

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Your shoulders are crucial to climbing—they are the axles around which all upper-body climbing movement rotates. We ask a lot of them and their fragile ligaments and tendons. Strengthening them is imperative to progressing.

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An excerpt from our new book Climb to Fitness: The Ultimate Guide to Customizing a Powerful Workout on the Wall.

Coach Justen Sjong weighs in on the potential benefits of pumping iron.

Researcher Stacy Sims explains the sexism of the sports-science complex, and how to harness your womanly physiology for peak climbing performance.

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Target your training with one of these 5 premier hangboards

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