How to Stay in Peak Climbing Shape While Traveling
Climbing trips are bad for your climbing. Learn how to maintain your rock climbing training program, while on the road...
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Dovi Hirsch
Jun 29, 20214 min read
Climbing Isn’t "Free": Giving Back to the Climbing Community
The regular use of climbing areas causes impact, from the parking lot all the way to the crag. Learn how to do your part...
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Dovi Hirsch
Jun 22, 20214 min read
Power vs. Power Endurance vs. Local Endurance: Which Do You Need?
The age-old and best training advice a beginner climber can receive is simply to climb… and climb and climb and climb.
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Dovi Hirsch
Jun 14, 20214 min read
The 5 Climbing Holds You Need to Maximize Your Home Climbing Wall
Your Rocket Wall home woody has just arrived. Learn which holds you need to get the most out of this climbing training tool.
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Dovi Hirsch
May 25, 20215 min read
Rock Climbing Etiquette: The Dos and Don'ts of Outdoor Climbing
When it comes to comparing indoor rock climbing to outdoor rock climbing, they really are two totally different beasts. There are no...
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Dovi Hirsch
May 22, 20214 min read
Rock Climbing Injury Prevention & Prehab
Learn how to prevent tendonitis, so it won't interfere with your training program or upcoming climbing trip.
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Dovi Hirsch
May 4, 20214 min read
Tendon Health for Rock Climbers: How to Prevent Tendonitis
Fear not: there are ways to prevent tendonitis so that it will not interfere with your training program or upcoming climbing trip.
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Dovi Hirsch
Apr 26, 20214 min read
Change Up that Hangboard Routine: 3 Hangboard Workout Ideas to Try
This past year, climbers have had to get pretty inventive with their hangboard routines. Here are 3 new ideas to change it up...
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Dovi Hirsch
Apr 20, 20215 min read
What's So Special About Board Training, Anyway?
Training boards are the new cool in climbing. Or, they’re the old cool made new (and cooler). They have lights, interactive apps...
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Dovi Hirsch
Apr 6, 20214 min read
Training for Rock Climbing: Where Does Cardio Come Into Play?
If you’ve sat around enough climber campfires or hung out in any of the many parking lots turned Sprinter van RV parks around the country...
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Dovi Hirsch
Mar 22, 20214 min read
Training Core and Shoulder Strength on a Portable Hangboard
Whether on the road or quarantined at home, every climber eventually confronts the crisis: how to stay fighting fit without access to a gym.
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Dovi Hirsch
Mar 9, 20213 min read
The History of the Hangboard
The history of the hangboard is interesting, not only because it provides insight into the development of what is now an essential training
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Dovi Hirsch
Mar 1, 20213 min read
Pinch Block Training...For More Than Just Pinch Strength
For all the popularity hangboarding has gained in this past year, it is a wonder that the pinch block hasn’t made a stronger showing.
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Dovi Hirsch
Feb 18, 20213 min read
A Beginner Hangboard Workout: Get Strong, Not Injured
The first thing any beginner climber reading this should know is that there is no such thing as a beginner hangboard workout...
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Dovi Hirsch
Feb 10, 20213 min read
Want to Become a Better Climber? Here's the Real Deal…
One of climbing’s basic rules is that routes have grades and the harder they are, the better a climber you need to be to climb them.
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Dovi Hirsch
Jan 27, 20213 min read
Training Dynamic Strength on a Hangboard
Dynamic strength is what’s needed to pull long, desperate crux moves on small holds. Learn how to build dynamic strength on a hangboard...
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Dovi Hirsch
Jan 20, 20213 min read
Hangboard vs. System Board: The Pros & Cons
Which is better: the hangboard or the system board? Well, they both have their pros and cons. Let’s explore each of these tools...
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Dovi Hirsch
Jan 12, 20213 min read
New Year, New Climbing Training Program: How to Stick with It
January: the worst month of the year on the climber’s calendar. The holiday weight gain is real; lost training days have you out of shape...
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Dovi Hirsch
Jan 4, 20215 min read
The Art of the Home Climbing Wall: The Good, the Bad, and the Downright Dangerous
If nothing else came out of 2020, a wide range of home climbing walls were built. Some were epic. Some were, uh, not so epic. And some were
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Dovi Hirsch
Dec 22, 20204 min read
So...How Long Until That Climbing Training Program Starts to Pay Off?
We would love to say that your climbing training program is going to start paying off tomorrow, or in a week, or maybe early next month. But
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