A Beginners Guide to Improving at Rock Climbing

What is the most common advice given to beginner climbers? From what we have seen ‘just climb a lot’ takes the top spot, this is not terrible advice but I would suggest it is overly simplified and even a bit uninformed.

Using our many years of coaching experience and diving into some of the research around sports performance, we wanted to do a better job than ‘just climb a lot’.... So we set about to share with you the best advice for beginner climbers looking to improve their climbing skills!

Climbing is very skill-driven, and you need lots of practice time to develop good movement and climbing techniques. However, my first criticism here is; that quality of practice is more important than quantity. In this video will define what we mean by quality and how you can implement it into your sessions.

Another assumption is that doing anything more than ‘just climbing’ is time wasted and that any physical development you need can be made while ‘just climbing’. I challenge these assumptions by pointing out how supplementary training can be minimal, time-efficient and can help you increase the quality of your practice time and mitigate injury risk. If supplementary training can keep you healthy and act as a catalyst for skill practice, why do we reserve it for intermediate to elite climbers only?

The third and perhaps most powerful tactic for improving fast in rock climbing is all about the social and cultural dynamic. If you are young and passionate about rock climbing, you may have the power to influence this one heavily.

Finally, to help guide your practice sessions. We give you three climbing games to try at the gym. Keep it fun, keep it mindful!

00:00 Intro
00:49 Quality vs Quantity
04:25 Physical Preparedness
10:26 No.1 Tip
11:50 Climbing Games

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