Nerves travel from your brain, down your spinal cord, through your arms and legs right down to your fingers and toes. We will run through some exercises to help with nerve mobility and ensure your climbing is not plagued by injury.
Nerves travel from your brain, down your spinal cord, through your arms and legs right down to your fingers and toes. We will run through some exercises to help with nerve mobility and ensure your climbing is not plagued by injury.
There’s lots of little warm up tools and training tools available out there, however nothing ever really beats a good old fashion dangle. However, hangboards are simple tools - a board, where you hang. So, it’s not often you’ll see innovation in the world of hangboards - yet here we are.
Today we are going to take a deep dive into medial elbow pain with Riley Hoare. Riley is a focused climbing physiotherapist from Sydney Climbing Physio, and has teamed up with us today to help explain precisely what Climber's Elbow is, how it is caused, and how you can recover and get back to climbing at your full potential, as soon as possible!
When it comes to overhangs, there’s often one word that comes to mind… ‘hard’. Though is that actually true? What if you want to brave the steeps and hit the overhangs with everything you’ve got? Let’s delve into what makes climbing overhangs different, and then give you the tools you need to show them who’s boss.
Climbing rock walls requires planning and technique; otherwise, you may be left with that next hold just out of reach! So, get ready to learn with our latest tips and climbing techniques designed to maximise and lengthen your reach in no time
Sam Higham runs through a comprehensive list of fundamental exercises that expose the shoulder to various loads designed to minimise the risk of injury. Performing 3 sets of each of these exercises at least twice per week will help to prevent climbing-related shoulder injuries.
As climbers, we often focus primarily on our pulling strength. Still, if we want to get the most out of our climbing and stay injury-free, we need to stretch our climbing muscles (agonists) and strengthen our non-climbing muscles (antagonists). Here are my top 10 yoga poses to get the job done:
Struggling to find the motivation to move daily?
Try adding a short stretch session to your morning or evening routine. Climb fit’s Claire Ayling runs through 8 of her favourite stretches designed to uplift your mood and kick start your day.
What’s actually going on with your body when you hangboard? Let’s jump in, and look at some of the science of hangboarding, and why exactly it helps your climbing
