Reddit mentions of Conditioning for Climbers: The Complete Exercise Guide (How To Climb Series)

Your title is actually the name of a book

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edit: (note: this isn't a very good book. Grab the self coached climber or 'training for climbing'. Also browse the wiki at /r/fitness or /r/loseit for general weightloss tips, but basically it's "watch what you eat", "add some cardio 3 days a week until you get close to your target weight" and keep climbing.

Climb more. I don't mean to be snippy but nothing improves your climbing like climbing.

A hang board is definitely worth it if you have somewhere to put it up.

It is very important that you build your "pull" muscles but you need to keep your muscles antagonist "push" counterparts well conditioned as well. These sorts of complications are how people get injured. Really, there are entire books on this stuff. This is a pretty good one.

Oh, one more thing that popped to the top of my head -- weight. Weight is everything in climbing. Months of strength training can amount to gains which are rivaled by only weeks of weight loss, if you have excess weight.

If you're new, work on technique as opposed to fitness (yeah, fitness helps, but technique is more important initially).


Check this book out.


If you want to get into some next-level stuff, pick up Training for the New Alpinism by Steve House. It's alpinism-focused, but has good workouts. Or perhaps Conditioning for Climbers

The only workouts I do with my S.O. are rock climbing and hiking. That's primarily because he doesn't go to the gym if it's not to climb. I've been trying to get him to do yoga with me because he's inflexible and often in random pain, he tries to get me to go snowboarding/skiing with him, which I won't because strapping a slippery board to your feet and then sliding down an avalanche-prone mountain is crazy-sauce.

I asked for this book for Christmas, you might be interested as well! I'm not sure what the exercise routines are like, but will help develop an training routine to make you a better climber: http://www.amazon.com/Conditioning-Climbers-Complete-Exercise-Series/dp/0762742283

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0762742283/ref=oh_details_o08_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

If you look at many of the best climbers in the world (Daniel Woods, Chris Sharma, Paul Robinson, etc) they are all pretty skinny with powerful hands, arms, shoulders and abs. Being a good climber is all about reducing your body weight while strengthening specific muscle groups that help your climbing.

Weightlifting for climbing should focus on the benefit you want to get. You should go buy a book like this one to learn what you need to do to condition yourself for climbing.

What are you trying to get out of your training? Overall, I've found this book very helpful in getting better at climbing. But you might be more interested in other Horst books, like Conditioning for Climbing depending on what your goals and/or focus is.