{"id":8035,"date":"2019-05-25T08:44:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T06:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travesiapirenaica.com\/?p=8035"},"modified":"2021-08-12T17:11:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T15:11:02","slug":"climbing-strength-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travesiapirenaica.com\/en\/climbing-strength-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you should include strength training in your climbing training routine"},"content":{"rendered":"
In climbing, there is an old saying that \"climbing is the best training for climbing\", a saying used by many to make excuses for not training outside of climbing. Personally I disagree with this philosophy, and I will now explain myself.<\/p>\n
When it comes to the exact skills needed for climbing, climbing techniques, how and when to move on the wall and mental skills, there is no substitute for the activity of climbing. However, for developing sport-specific strength levels for climbing, such as improving grip strength and upper body strength and endurance climbing<\/strong>If the results or improvements will be very limited.<\/p>\n One of the main reasons why climbing is not good for strength training is because in climbing failure is not an option. If you have total muscle wasting climbing, it can be fatal and you are putting yourself at risk. Therefore, the goal in climbing is to climb. Alternatively, when one is strength training for climbing, one wants to reach and even pass the point of muscle exhaustion, as in this state the body will respond with an increase in strength to adapt to the stress.<\/b> that is being exerted on it. This is why the two methods (climbing and non-climbing strength training) are both exclusive and you will never achieve maximum strength from climbing alone.<\/p>\n\n