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 →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 →Mention training and you’ll know doubt see climbers murmur something about running or busting out sit ups, push ups and bicep curls; occasionally the more open minded sometimes mention deadlifts and a bit of yoga. Though this approach may help somewhat it’s unlikely to have any real
Read more →The rock is dry, you’ve been flicking through the guide book picking problems, watching videos for beta, and you’re all stocked up on magic chalk dust. You head out for a day at the crag, the rock feels great but perhaps you’ve noticed Your neck, shoulders &
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
Read more →Climbing is one of the most awesome ways to get out, get physical and have fun in the great playground of the big wide world, however 2 challenges repeatedly crop up: Grade performance plateaus It’s risky, thwart with chance of injury (especially the more you climb and push
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