Training and Testing in Climbing

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Climbing Literature

Climbing has gained interest from both practitioners and researchers over the past decades. With climbing being included in the Tokyo Olympics, this interest will most likely grow in the years to come. Sport climbing is a diversified activity with different disciplines (bouldering, lead climbing, speed climbing) that requires different abilities. Further, climbing is practiced by a varied population from the recreational climber to the professional athlete. However, common for most climbers is their passion for the sport and the desire to improving their climbing skills and performance.

Climbing is a complex activity that relies on multiple skills. Hence, climbing performance depends on an interaction of physiological, psychological, technical, and tactical factors. The scientific evidence to better understand climbing is growing, but climbing is a relatively young research topic with a lot of unanswered questions. In general, there is a need for increased knowledge concerning factors affecting climbing performance, acute and chronic effects of climbing, effects of different training interventions, differences between different climbing disciplines, the validity and reliability of climbing-related tests, prevalence and avoidance of climbing-related injuries, recovery after training, development of young climbers and so on. Therefore, we welcome all forms of applied and practice-related science focusing on improvement of climbing performance.

Thus, the aim of this Research Topic is to provide research that increases the scientific knowledge of training and testing in climbing. Topics include:

• Factors determining climbing performance
• Acute and chronic effects of climbing
• Effect of different training interventions on climbing-related factors
• Validity and reliability of different climbing-related tests
• Prevalence and avoidance of climbing-related injuries
• Effects of supplements and nutrition on factors related to climbing performance