Climber’s Workout

Whether you’re an avid climber or a newbie, rock climbing requires strength, good balance, and mental fortitude. From your upper back to your toes, you use many muscles when you climb. It’s a great full-body workout! Since you can’t be on the wall all day, you may wonder how to develop greater strength off the wall to improve your climbing performance.

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Pull Ups

Every time you do a pull-up, you work on your biceps, triceps, forearms, wrists, grip strength, lats, shoulders and core. In addition to building up the bigger muscle groups, pull-ups effectively strengthen the grip.

Lat Pulldowns

works the latissimus dorsi, the largest muscle in the back, as well as your biceps, rear delts, rhomboids and traps.

Weighted Lunges

strengthens not only the quadriceps but every muscle in the lower body as well as core stability muscles.

Hip Swings

Forward leg swings are a great dynamic stretching exercise. The purpose of this exercise is to warm up and stretch the hip muscles and the hip joint. This movement helps to prevent injuries and also reduces pain in the hip area.