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In The Resilient Climber, Doctor of Physical Therapy Jared Vagy breaks down 40 climbing movements and shows you how to train the strength and mobility needed for each one. Each movement begins with a challenge, a test that assesses your body’s capacity to perform it well, followed by targeted exercises to address the specific limitations uncovered. You’ll then learn how to integrate these exercises into a structured routine. This isn’t just an injury-prevention book. It’s a movement-based training guide designed to help you climb stronger, move better, and stay injury-free.
What is the difference between Climb Injury-Free and The Resilient Climber?
The two books are very different in both structure and content, with almost no overlap in the exercises or material.
Climb Injury-Free focuses on rehabilitation by body region and specific climbing injuries. For example, it describes a pulley injury, how to assess it, and specific rehabilitation exercises for that injury.
The Resilient Climber takes a completely different approach. It is organized around climbing movement rather than injury. It breaks down 40 key climbing movements and provides mobility and strength exercises for each one, with the goal of helping climbers build a more resilient body for climbing.
Gail Skoropad –
The Resilient Climber is a genuinely useful resource for climbers at every level, as well as coaches and physiotherapists who want practical, climbing-specific tools to improve performance and reduce injury risk. What stands out most is Jared’s ability to bring together perspectives from across the climbing and rehab worlds, from orthopedic surgeons and physiotherapists to chiropractors and professional climbers, and turn them into something clear, organized, and easy to apply. His experience as both a movement expert and climber comes through on every page. This is the kind of book that feels immediately helpful and has the potential to make a real difference in how climbers train, move, and stay healthy over time.
Patrick Matros –
This book fills an important gap by offering exercises specifically tailored to climbing techniques, enabling targeted and systematic training—whether on or off the climbing wall. Highly recommended!
Jessica Chung –
Finally, a book that connects climbing-specific movements with exercises and assessment tools that are both practical and fun. The chapters are well organized and introduce climbing-specific movements with ways to assess one’s progress using challenges and exercises that are all color-coded. So it’s VERY user friendly and provides targeted training for building resilience as well as injury prevention. As a climber and a physiotherapist, I will include this book in my toolbox for my own training as well as recommending it to providers, patients, and fellow climbers.
Meshach Ramirez –
As a PT that climbs and works with climbers, I’m excited to add this book to my tool belt! It has a lot of in depth analysis and explanations of climbing movements from a multitude of professionals that I’m excited to delve into and learn from to apply into my practice! Thank you for a solid addition to my library!
Todd Bushman –
I’ve worked with the author in a number of capacities and have seen him work in real time. He knows how to break down movement better than anyone else I’ve encountered. His newest book is a really fun way to get into the mind of a climbing physical therapist and nerd out on the specifics of assessing and progressing key movements. It’s very approachable for anyone interested in climbing. If you’re willing to take a more intentional approach and use this resource, the return on investment will certainly come. If you need help figuring out which movements to focus on or how to structure a full program, see a climbing coach or PT. If your PT doesn’t understand climbing – share this book with them!
Bobby Carroll –
An Outstanding Resource for any climber!
Anna Gras –
This book has it all! From creative exercises to helping you build your own personalized training plan, it’s packed with practical information. The information feels very digestible, and made it easy for me to start adding exercises into my own training routine right away. I can already tell this is a book I’ll be coming back to for years to come!!
Loren Judaken –
A superb, practical guide for climbers of any level. The assessments and exercises are clearly explained and illustrated with great photos, making them very easy to follow. I would highly recommend it to anyone looking to improve their strength, mobility and resilience for climbing!
Joseph Derian –
One of the best climbing training books out there. Broken down by move, it’s easy to navigate and pinpoint ways to make you a better climber and more resistant to injury. Thanks Dr. Vagy!
Billy Shiou –
This book is a filled with so much knowledge and can be an amazing tool to improve your climbing performance while also helping with injury prevention. Would highly recommend!
Eric Hörst –
The Resilient Climber is a tour de force of climbing-specific exercises designed to address the common weaknesses that can limit movement, mobility, and performance. It’s an invaluable resource for serious climbers who want to reduce injury risk through targeted “prehab” training, as well as for those recovering from existing injuries, managing chronic pain, or correcting movement deficiencies. Clear, comprehensive, and beautifully illustrated, this is a must-have reference for anyone committed to climbing stronger and staying healthy.
Eric Velazquez –
Came in amazing conditions, amazing book to really dive into the demands of climbing and particularly what demands different moves put on our bodies. Couldn’t recommend it enough!
Tim Worley –
As a Physical Therapist I was impressed by how detailed but easy to follow this book was! This is one of those books that I will continue to come back to in years to come!
Sophie John –
I loved the book Climb Injury Free by Dr. Jared Vagy and The Resilient Climber is another amazing resource for physical therapists, climbers, and anyone who wants to work on strength, mobility, and injury prevention. It is really easy to follow with high quality images and colored coded sections. If you are interested in this book I would also check out The Climbing Doctor website!
Jackie VanSloten –
As someone who has spent years climbing, training, and working in the health and performance space, I can honestly say this is one of the most practical climbing books I’ve read.
What sets The Resilient Climber apart is that it doesn’t just tell you what exercises to do. It explains why injuries happen, how to identify your weak links, and how to build a body that can keep climbing for years. Jared takes complex concepts from physical therapy and sports science and makes them incredibly approachable, whether you’re a beginner or an experienced climber.
The book is full of actionable assessments, mobility work, strength exercises, and injury prevention strategies that you can immediately incorporate into your climbing routine. It’s organized in a way that makes it easy to reference specific body parts or common climbing injuries whenever something comes up.
What I appreciate most is the mindset behind the book. It’s not about chasing quick fixes. It’s about becoming a more resilient athlete so you can spend more time doing what you love.
If you climb indoors or outdoors, boulder, sport climb, trad climb, or train regularly, this book deserves a spot on your shelf. I recommend it to anyone looking to improve climbing performance, prevent injuries, recover smarter, and enjoy the sport for the long haul.
Andrew McClure –
Great insights and interventions for common climbing injuries and limitations.
Matt DeStefano –
Dr. Vagy has put out some incredible resources in the past, and this is the best yet. He is very thorough in his explanation and he leaves no stone unturned. He is also a very well connected professional in the industry which is illustrated by his many cameo “Pro Tips” spread throughout the book. I look forward to using this resource in my professional career as a Doctor of Physical Therapy and the Head Coach of an elite level youth climbing team (Mesa Rim Academy). Thank you Jared.
Brian Cervino –
Recently got into climbing but I’m getting older so I was really nervous I might get injured if I did something stupid. This book has been a fantastic resource that breaks down everything I need to know to make sure my body has the strength and mobility needed as I pursue this new passion.
Emma St Pierre –
As a physical therapist myself, I am very excited to use this book to help inform some of my treatment! Jared is a great PT with incredible resources and I know this will be so useful for helping my patients (and of course myself)!!
Julien Descheneaux –
Enfin un livre utile autant pour le grimpeur que le clinicien. Il décompose plusieurs gestes sportifs (crochet de talon / lock-off, etc.. en quelques aspects simples et permet de comprendre là où il y a quelque chose à améliorer. Il y a également beaucoup de contributeurs à travers le livre et suggère qu’il y a un certain consensus sur le matériel proposé. Solide!
Honoka Shiga –
I’ve read a few climbing books, including Dr. Jared Vagy’s previous book on climbing injuries, which I found incredibly helpful as both a climber and a clinician.. but this book is on another level!!
I often film myself climbing to review my movement and this has become an invaluable resource for understanding specific techniques and finding ways to improve. I also love how thoughtfully the book is organized, making it easy to flip to exactly what I’m looking for.
I can’t recommend this enough for anyone who climbs or simply enjoys geeking out over climbing movement. It’s a really great resource that I’ll be coming back to again and again.
Leanne Urbanek –
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As both a physical therapist and climber, I found this book to be an outstanding resource. It does an excellent job connecting climbing movement with strength, mobility, and injury prevention in a practical, easy-to-apply way. The clear explanations and highly organized content make it very easy to find what you are looking for. I’ve already incorporated several concepts into my own training and would highly recommend it to any climber!
Logan Geisler –
The Resilient Climber offers amazing insights and recommendations to improve in every kind of movement you can expect to encounter while climbing. It is well backed by climbing research while remaining easy to understand, and serves as a great guide for casual climbers, coaches, and physiotherapists alike.
Devin Harmon –
This book is a MUST BUY for any climbers who want to optimize their training, prevent injuries, and ultimately understand their body better. It has been an absolute game changer for me and I can’t recommend it enough to others.
Riley Hess –
The resilient climber is one of the best resources I’ve come across for helping understand climbing injuries, rehabilitation, and a framework to structure training to get back to climbing. Jared does an amazing job at taking complex concepts and making them easy to understand and reference for all climbing levels. I appreciate the depth the book goes into on why injuries happen and how we can tailor training to meet a climbers needs. As a PT myself, it’s been a great book to recommend to clients as they continue on with their rehab.
Keith Heisler –
Climbers always say, “It’s not IF you’ll get hurt, but WHEN.” Well, this book officially ends that adage once and for all. Jared’s in-depth knowledge on body movement and how we sustain injures is next level. His explanations are clear, concise, and easy to understand. As are the exercises he provides to help you get ahead of any future injuries. Injuries that always seemed inevitable but are completely preventable once you’ve absorbed all the book has to offer. If you want to stay healthy and on the wall, this is the book for you. A quick read that will save you a lot of future climbing aches and pains.
Jana Gustman –
As a lifelong aging runner, I climb to move my body in new ways with less impact. I am not a very good climber, and my past running injuries make me cautious about overuse in this other sport. Jared’s book is an incredible asset. It lists key climbing movements with clear pictures and exercises that make the techniques natural and accessible. This is the perfect guide for beginners or cross-training athletes looking to climb safely. It is a reminder that prehab is as important as rehab.