The Secret to Training Endurance? Ditch the Rope.
It isn't just easy to build endurance on a bouldering wall—it can be more efficient than climbing on a rope.
Steve Bechtel
Steve Bechtel
Training on a Board? Better Read This.
It’s heinously easy to overdo it on a bouldering board... and overdoing it negates any gains you might make. Planning and discipline play important roles in a healthy board practice.
Stop Bragging About How Much You Train—The Science Says Quality Beats Quantity
When we talk about our training, we usually default to talking about how much we do. We talk about hours spent under the hangboard, or how we climbed late into the evening at the crag. Yet the thing we tend to miss, and that is a bigger key to progress, is quality: What, precisely, did we do with those hours and how focused were we?
If You Can’t Hold the Holds, You Can’t Do the Moves
Build long-term finger strength with structured hangboarding
Never Get Pumped Again | A Three-Part Training Series from Steve Bechtel
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What Science Says: How Long You Should Rest Between Send Goes
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?
Book Review: Unstoppable Force—Strength Training for Climbing, by Steve Bechtel and Charlie Manganiello
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