Maximizing Climbing Performance: The Efficacy and Transferability of Off-the-Wall Training to On-Wall Climbing
Are you tired of feeling stuck on those challenging climbing routes? Are you eager to overcome those pesky projects and explore more climbs at your gym and crag? Perhaps you're unsure about the most effective training method. Should you solely focus on just climbing more? Or is off-the-wall training beneficial? Are you wondering about [...]
Climbing to Calm: How Scaling Walls Eases Modern Mental Health Struggles
In a world where chaos often feels like the new normal and stress seems to be an unwelcome companion on our daily journey, it's no wonder that mental health concerns are on the rise. According to the American Psychological Association's October 2023 survey, 37% of Americans report being diagnosed with a mental health condition—a [...]
Shoulder Health for Adaptive Climbers with Spinal Cord Injury
Whether you’re an experienced climber or just getting into the sport, protecting your shoulders is vital for your long-term mobility, activities of daily living, and enjoying climbing! Combine a love of climbing with a spinal cord injury (SCI) and it is truly imperative to have a strong shoulder maintenance plan. So what does this [...]
Addressing Eating Disorders in the Climbing Community
There is generally an intuitive benefit to having low body weight as a rock climber. Constantly fighting gravity to pull your weight would be a lot easier if you just weighed less. Even if this is true, rock climbers shouldn’t feel like they have to lose weight to be good at their sport. Disordered eating/negative [...]
Knee Injuries in Rock Climbers
Three years ago I was halfway through a pumpy, overhung 5.12 in central Texas. I had just done around 20 moves and the pump was approaching rapidly. I sunk a bomber heel toe-cam on the same flat jug rail my hands were on to shake out my forearms before the finishing crux. While I [...]
Pulling Harder than the Hamate Tolerates: Evaluation of Hamate Injuries in Rock Climbing and Bouldering
The article investigates a specific wrist injury in rock climbers known as a hamate hook fracture. Although rare, these injuries have become more frequent among climbers who put intense strain on their hands, especially during complex maneuvers that increase stress on the wrist’s carpal bones. The study reviewed 12 cases of hamate injuries from [...]