Most long-term training programs attempt to coordinate physical, mental and skill cycles to produce a period of peak performance. ...

What do you think about drinking recovery supplements, such as whey protein or glutamine, throughout a day of cragging? ...

Last year I took a groundfall while trad climbing, which resulted in a compression fracture in one of my vertebrae. I hope to use this experience to b......

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

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

How long should I rest between burns?...

The answers are really simple when it comes to training, and I’m afraid that both concepts have merit and can be used to achieve different effects. ...

Crash dieting is not the answer. Not only do hardcore diets take all the joy away from climbing (and life) but they make weight control more difficult by disrupting your metabolism. ...

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....

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. ...

Decoding climbing's vexing language...

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

Malcolm Smith said, Finger strength is everything and if you lay down a foundation back in 1992 at the age of 18. ...

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

TRAINING AND performance experts agree: warming up before you climb will help keep you healthy and climbing your best....

I understand the importance of getting pumped as part of your warm-up for onsighting, but what is the best way to warm up?...

One of the most important performance skills is the ability to maintain good technique in high-pressure situations....

I'm going to Ceuse for three weeks this summer and aim to push my onsight / flash grade as hard as I can. I know that you've gone into detail in past articles about how to onsight on a route-by-route basis but it would be really useful if you could cover a broader range of tactics that could be employed over several weeks on a trip....

Anyone can hit the campus board and get strong, but a truly skilled climber is someone who can keep it together even when he is drowning in lactic acid, miles above the runner. ...

I am a 20-year-old woman, six months pregnant and a passionate climber. I’ve been climbing for three years, and already have a 2-year-old daughter. ...