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It’s difficult to improve flexibility as an adult, but maintaining your current flexibility is much more manageable. The tough part of mobility training is that improvement takes a long time and is hard to measure.
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Along the same lines, I think we too often imagine ourselves making big changes if we commit money to the cause. As a person who makes his living from building climbing training plans, this might seem like strange advice, but I've found that there are some huge basic issues that climbers can and should cover before they start paying...for anything.
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The term "training" is over-used. People refer to any and everything they do in climbing as training, yet training is a very specific act. It is repeated efforts at improving specific parameters of your fitness. Imagine "training" a dog but just randomly giving it orders with no expectation of behaviors. Organized, progressive, repeated...these are how training must be defined.Yes, there is training for climbing. It is done in the weightroom, on the hangboard, against the clock. And although bouldering, climbing routes, and even System board work can be considered training, they are really practice. Training is how you get stronger. Practice is how you get better.The saying "practice makes perfect" is known to all of us, but the truth is that practice makes permanent. Simply doing something a lot doesn't make you good at that thing. What we really need to do is practice correctly, do it a lot, and then reap the rewards. This is where my 75/25 rule comes back into play: 75% of your "training" time should really be practice time. Don't go to the gym to get tired, go to get better.
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If you are training for endurance, it's OK not to fall. But if you want to get better at rock climbing, you have got to do limit-level climbing in the gym. The more times you fail, the more your body will be delivered the message that it needs to improve.
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Bouldering is exactly the same as rock climbing, except that it's way harder. In an attempt to do this way harder sport, we often employ rock climbing training programs, yet they don't quite work. This article is intended to highlight these differences, provide an introduction to bouldering training, and suggest an alternative way of thinking.
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