http://www.ascentadventure.com Website of North Carolina rock climbing guides and team building facilitators Ascent Adventure Consultants. We are the preferred guide service in the southeast United States, offering climbing trips (day and weekend trips) on the best routes and areas in NC, outdoor climbing instruction, and team building and leadership development programs. Make Ascent your guide service for 2009. Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:30:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.ascentadventure.com/2009/11/training-for-your-climbing-preference/ http://www.ascentadventure.com/2009/11/training-for-your-climbing-preference/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:05:23 +0000 brandon http://www.ascentadventure.com/?p=1960 When I’m not out actually climbing, I spend a lot of time training for climbing, and talking to others about training for climbing. I love helping others excel in this amazing sport. One thing that I often run into is that sometimes people don’t understand that training needs to be specific to the climbing discipline that you wish to excel at. For example, if you are a boulderer, you don’t need to train in stamina, but rather focus on maximum strength and power. Sport climbers need to focus on maximum strength and power, and also some anaerobic endurance, to help them avoid that flash-pump common to short powerful routes. Trad climbers need to focus on all 3 areas, stamina being the most important. Without a solid foundation of stamina, long multi pitch routes will result in fatigue and possibly failure. So take a moment to consider how you train for climbing performance? Are you being specific to your goals?

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