Widely accepted among advanced athletes and used and loved by many climbers, periodization is the structured approach to training that involves mani......

Neil Gresham, renowned coach and Rock and Ice columnist, outlines the most essential (and neglected) component of any training program—recovery...

Working on my elbow tendonitis years ago, a chiropractor-climber, Eric Vining, put me on two teaspoons a day of fish oil. Lemon-flavored though it was, I found it awful. When I whined, he switched me to three fish-oil capsules a day. Better. But still not great....

Oh, the mellifluous sounds of injury. Their regularity forms the leitmotif of Modern Climbing: the Musical. If you get into the groove, you will end up dancing the Charlie Foxtrot....

Climbers are subject to a number of stressors ranging from physical fatigue to the mental stress of dealing with exposure. We climb in all sorts of weather. We often don't recover adequately. It's not surprising that sometimes our health's delicate balance tips, and injury or sickness results....

"Inescapable" is the first word that comes to mind. With more than a dozen joints and a full case of muscles, is it any wonder that the neck gets pissy when put into a hyperextended position for long periods?...

Being good at rock climbing is all about learning proper technique and then ingraining it so it becomes second nature. In the long run, technique will take you much further than a strong back and a vice grip....

Getting to the bottom of getting to the top....

The fine art of rigging climbing anchors and belay stations....

My hands, especially my little fingers, go numb (they tingle), whenever I climb a lot. A few pulls here or there cause no problem, but all-day climbing sure does. ...

I have a SLAP lesion [a cartilage tear on the rim of the shoulder socket] having injured my shoulder seven months ago. My D.O. gave me a cortisone shot yesterday and I actually feel worse....

Although some climbers eschew any type of quantification, most of us want to know how difficult a climb is, either to keep us from biting off more cli......

There are only three sports®mountain climbing, bull fighting and motor racing®all others being games. Ernest Hemingway wrote that a half-century ago......

Decoding climbing's vexing language...

Minimizing your impact is the highest style of all....

You've hit a barrier. You can't break through to that next level. You've been climbing for a year now, progressing quickly through the grades concentrating on technique. Even as a weekend warrior, you're getting up some respectable routes, steeper, more strenuous. But you're stuck at the same grade....

Veteran climbers die every year because they make simple yet avoidable rappelling mistakes, such as rappelling off the end of the rope, or rappelling from inadequate anchors. Here's how to rappel safely and avoide their rappelling mistakes....

When you toprope, you climb with the rope strung through overhead anchors. Toproping is an excellent way to learn how to climb because it frees you from hassling with gear, removes the fear of falling and allows you to concentrate on simply climbing....

Lead climbing, or going first on the rope, is climbing's end game. Here are tips for getting your lead game on safely and efficiently....

Climbing on lead and being able to place solid protection is the foundation to safe rock climbing....