The Climbing Bible: Technical, physical and mental training for rock climbing: 1

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If you are just a climber wanting to perfect your game, or a parent or coach who wants a trusted text to refer to in your child or students learning, Vertebrate publishing's The Climbing Bible: Practical Exercises is a book to live and climb by. It’s grounded in plenty of real life examples and interviews with top climbers, and it’s really helpful to see how people have tried the advice and found it to be helpful. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. I've found it best read dropping in to chunks over coffee reading small sections at a time and then coming back later - rather than chapter 1 onwards, but it gives you a good insight in to a few great ideas and tips that I will certainly be trying post lockdown. The book covers Technical, Physical and Mental training, with three additional chapters on Tactics, General training and injury prevention, and finally, training plans.

Climbing Bible: Technical, physical and mental training The Climbing Bible: Technical, physical and mental training

We started our climbing careers together twenty-five years ago and have been through our own personal evolution as climbers as well as observing others going through the same process.The new climber will find an almost overwhelming amount of information with regards to training and tactics, whilst the seasoned climber will find plenty of tips and tricks to keep them at the top of their game. This is not a guys/girls discussion, but it seems obvious that if you need to rely more on your technique to get up a route or a boulder you’ll hone those skills to a higher degree than if you’re able to muscle your way up. The only thing not covered is nutrition, although there are plenty of specific guides already available on that and it’s probably too big a topic to slot into this as well as everything else.

The Climbing Bible: Practical Exercises: Technique and

Then Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, with his armor bearer behind him; and they fell before Jonathan, and his armor bearer put some to death after him. Wolfang Gullich said: “there is no such thing as too much power”, and if most of that power is situated in your forearms you are well equipped to tackle hard routes or boulder problems. It explores the characters and their lives in raw details, it leaves you with an appreciation for their contribution to winter mountaineering. Stian Christophersen is a physiotherapist and coach, has climbed for over 20 years, been an athlete on the national team and was the 2009 Norwegian bouldering champion. This comprehensive book covers so much in accessible detail, and best of all with loads of great photos to help visualisation.

You will be able to enjoy the climbing more as you’re less afraid, and nothing really beats the feeling of mastering something you were initially afraid of. As a book the only weakness in one way is its size in that I wouldn't probably take it to the wall with me to train, but in its size you could easily snap a photo of a particular page if you needed it. It was brilliant and inspiring to see equal gender representation in the many photos, and great to see a quick discussion of climbing during pregnancy – I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen any mention of this in a training guide!

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Alongside the text there is a great number of photographs to supplement the text you so you cn really see in detail the techniques in detail.And this diversity will build your ability to solve the puzzle which is moving between holds to find the tops you’re looking for. All of these will present you with their own particular challenges on how to move, weight your feet and position your body. This book features everything you need to know about physical, technical and mental training for rock climbing.

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The photos are also good for helping to summon up some motivation on those days when you really don’t feel like training! Personally, I would have preferred the author to delve deeper into the technique chapters, while being more concise in the training and tactic chapters. But I already own 9/10 and MoB, and there is a lot of good (free) beginner information online, so I am wondering what (if any) additional value I would find in this book.Martin Mobråten has a master’s degree in civil engineering, has climbed for over 20 years, been an athlete on the Norwegian national team and is a former Nordic champion in climbing.