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Finger and hand injuries and fingerboard training characteristics of SA based climbers

Julia is conducting a web-based survey study to gain insight into South African-based climbers’ hand and finger injuries and fingerboard training, especially before, during and after the Covid-19 lockdown period.

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Climbing Gym Training

The Low Down on Hangboards: A Review of 11 Leading Boards and More

Hangboard review

Here’s the low down on 11 of the leading hangboards. Real talk. Unfiltered. Honest.

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Hangboard Training

What I learned from 1-month rock-climbing challenge

Hangtime Gym Bellville

Cool article about a newbie who took on a rock climbing (bouldering) challenge, and had this to say…

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Bouldering Climbing Gym Training

How to Foam Roll for Climbers

Decreasing muscle pain optimizes power output! 5 foam rolling exercises which you can do before or after your climbing / training session.

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Training

Build Max Strength, Injury Free: Part2

Repeaters are the most commonly practiced exercise on a hangboard, however, they give you a “pump”, thus activating power/endurance system

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Build Max Strength, Injury Free: Part1

Gyms are sprouting up all over the show and with that so has come a pretty impressive amount of “training” related injuries.

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Kai Fitchen Training

Want to Crank Hard? Build your BASE

Our legs are our “base”, our foundation; driving us and moving us to new and exciting places.

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Brian Tries 1-4-7 on the Campus Board

During the transition from Strength to Power, I’ve started to campus board a little. This is the first day of my efforts.

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Brian Weaver Campus Training

German Climbing Team training, Stuntwerk 2014

German Climbing Team Training of the winter 2014/15 saison in Cologne’s futuristic Stuntwerk bouldering gym.

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Training

The Return of the Masochist

So what was it that actually brought about this radical change in my attitude and behaviour? What brought about this month of pure masochism?

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Brian Weaver Chris Webb Parsons Hangboard Kris Hampton Recovery Training

Video: Eisprinz – Chapter one (with Markus Bendler) Indoor Training

First (of 10) Chapter of the “Eisprinz” Movieblog with Iceclimbing Worldchampion Markus Bendler

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Training

Fingerboard Training – Beginner

In part one of this mini-series Ned Feehally looks at the basics of fingerboard training from the beginner’s perspective.

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