“It’s not possible!” That’s the feeling a lot of people on the jiu-jitsu mats will have when the subject of keeping your neck and shoulders healthy is brought up. To some degree it’s a fair point. If you belong to a world where people are often trying
Read more →Crawling Beyond Gnarly Shoulders, Back to Feeling Strong There’s no getting around the fact climbing’s tough on our body. Whether it’s hard bouldering or repetitive pulling on long sport pitches not many places get the battering our shoulders take. If you’re anything like us, we’d imagine you
Read more →Gnarly shoulders is one of the biggest challenges we face as climbers. Whether it’s: feeling overly stiff or weaker than ‘normal’ having to hold back on crux moves worrying about hurting something a nagging ache that just isn’t getting better or picking up an impingement time and
Read more →We know you’re into your health and fitness, you’ve got your workouts organised, your game of tennis or round of golf planned for the week, you’ve even got your food and sleep on point, but have you done enough body care today? You know, the simple little
Read more →Quick recap (if you want to read in more depth check out strengthening diagonals Part 1) Our bodies use slings (combinations of muscles) to create energy efficient, complex movements, produce force and stay upright. Strong slings make us stable, powerful and accurate. Weak, disrupted or inhibited slings
Read more →What you need to know so far: Arm and shoulder injuries or niggles are really common and they suck to climb with. Bouldering creates musculoskeletal imbalances and restrictions, especially in the shoulders – hunched over look with locked up rounded shoulders lacking external rotation held in place
Read more →The minefield of injuries that climbers face specifically just from climbing is quite extensive. Here’s a list of the most common from most to least frequent: Wrists & fingers – A2/ A3 pulley, carpel tunnel syndrome & peritendinitis; Elbows – lateral epicondylitis, medial epicondylitis, Bicep & brachialis
Read more →Finger, elbow and shoulder pain/injury is as common as muck in climbing. There’s plenty of ideas for rehabbing these injuries at the area itself but what’s bewildering is no one’s looking beyond the arm! If the arm is commonly injured it’s likely something else in the chain
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