Climbing stretches

In this article, Dave Flanagan gives 10 tips on how to improve at bouldering indoors and also how to use bouldering to improve your climbing outside...

climbing warm up

Culturally, men have been socialized to focus on strength, and the various ways which this can be expressed in the gym. Very rarely is there an emphasis on flexibility and/or range of motion (“ROM”). Ironically, it is this lack of time spent warming up, working on mobility and stretching that can a

My tennis elbow therapy program is consist of four components: Manual therapy, Active motion, Passive stretching & Strengthening exercises (MAPS).

We've designed this easy-to-follow cool down routine for all of our climbers to follow. Created by Marine Mammal, these illustrations appear in Indirock, Southend's first bouldering wall. This cool down should only take 5-10 minutes in addition to your climbing session but will make all the difference. Come and visit Indirock at Southend City's Victoria Centre.

Whether you want to be more active or are bored at the regular gym and want to mix it up by joining a climbing gym, you may be wondering if climbing can replace exercise. This article goes through the main muscles that climbing builds, discuss whether or not you can replace exercising with climbing and if you should supplement climbing with weight training.

Alex Beale of 99Boulders, a site focusing on climbing gear and training, has written a guest post details ten easy and effective off-the-wall exercises you can do to complement your current training regimen. You want to know something? You don’t need to spend all your time training for climbing on a climbing wall. In fact, […]

Core strengthening exercises and mobility exercises for rock climbers.