Rock Climbing Training

In all the skills connected to sports, the main techniques should be inculcated in you're your physical-training regimes as often as possible.

The first and the most basic specific training exercise for ice or mixed rock climbing training is to use a beam or bar to attach your axes over it. For strength-work you may have to avoid using your foot wear and perform the exercises foot free.

Pull-ups with arms at different heights are a useful variation to enable you to vary the loading on each arm in a manner that is very specific to climbing different rock types. For endurance work, stay hyperactive and try using a foothold for assistance in order to reach the required repetition target to gain more stamina.

For better rock climbing training, use a Bachar ladder to crank-up on your tools. This incorporates the appropriate synchronization of moving and static muscle contractions to imitate the neuromuscular patterns of real climbing.

Try it with your feet for stamina and without them for strength. But be warned, it can be dangerous to go up high on your own strapped to a pair of ice tools; so clutch a firm support and do your pushups.

For those hard moves in rock climbing training that require you to hold stationary arm positions either to place pro or to hack out your next placement - these are quite strenuous. You can either do just these exercises or you can combine them with any of the above-mentioned exercises.

Use 3 key positions during the rock climbing training: fully locked, 90 degrees and 130-150 degrees. Use one arm to test for specifics and strength. Doing this is very important. You must also swing the axe that is free three to four times on top of your head assuming you are making a placement.

Use both the arms, and for better endurance make use of your foot as well. Contraction time guidelines are also a very important fact to be known by every climber but should be conveyed as a warning nearly more than 30 seconds per lock or else it could be damaging. This results in your tendons and capsules being overworked and strained.

None of the exercises described so far really concentrate on the jelly arm that occurs frequently as a result of badly trying to swing your axe and hack out a stubborn placement except a few varieties of the ice axe Bouldering.

Strength is basically pulling up and locking off in rock climbing. The entire set of antagonist muscles though are used when trying to place and maintain the stability of your axes.

These are primarily belonging to the deltoid group - for raising the axe, and then the triceps and wrist or forearm muscles to drive it home into the ice. In addition, when mixed climbing, a whole sequence of synergists is introduced in order to help you fix your axe firmly in place even as you balance it on placements which are very narrow and precariously set.