Hamstring Injury in Rock Climbers
You’re climbing your project, and you have a high heel hook set on a big hold. The next hold looks far but your heel feels secure so you pull on it hard, locking off on your hand holds. As you release one of your hands to reach for the next hold, you feel a sudden [...]
Hypermobility: Strength or Weakness?
How many of us have read an article online, received a pop-up ad on the computer, or even been told by a doctor that we need to stretch more? Odds are, probably most of the population has received this message in one way or another. In a time where yoga and new age stretching studios [...]
Elite Climbers: Your Iceberg Profile and Why It Matters
Climbing, to no one’s surprise, is hard. However, more people are drawn to sport climbing and bouldering than ever before. Climbing itself is not new to the realm of sports; in fact its origins date back to a necessity for survival among the people living in the Alps. Its recreational history isn’t relatively modern either; [...]
The Climber’s Guide to Pull-Ups: Biomechanics, Variations, and Injury Insights
Walk up at any climbing gym and you will certainly see people performing all kinds of pull-ups. Straight, inclined, supinated or pronated grip, on rings or on microscopic crimps: the possibilities are endless when it comes to climbers training hard on pull-ups. But which way is right for you? It’s easy to get lost [...]
Wired to Climb Applying Motor Learning Principles to Rock Climbing Progression
Rock climbing, a sport defined by complex movements, physical strength, and mental resilience, exemplifies the intricacies of motor learning in real-time application. Elite climber Nathaniel Coleman vividly illustrates these complexities in his experience with the groundbreaking climb "Defying Gravity": “The defining characteristic of rock is its lack of texture. Pulling too hard in the [...]
Therapeutic Climbing: A Pediatric Top-Rope Rock Climbing Program for Sensory Integration Through Social Prescribing
Introduction to Sensory Integration Sensory Integration (SI) is a theory and model developed by Jane Aryes in 1972. It gives name to neurological processes that determine how the brain organizes, interprets, and deciphers what to do with incoming sensory information- from both outside ourselves in the world around us, as well as from [...]