How do you train contact strength?
There seems a lot of agreement among the best in the sport right now that this is an essential tool. They are using these consistently. Just bodyweight and ocassional weighted work too. Almost everyday...(?!) A ten minute workout is the minimum, the 'hardmen' are doing back to back sessions (20 minutes) to begin a day's climbing sometimes--and always as a final cap off. The far end of the scale may be Scotsman Dave MacLeod (who is at the pinnacle of professional hard trad & mixed climbing) who even uses the hang board to equivocate a day's climbing effort if the weather is too bad to get outside! My mind melts to even think of that...!
Read the rest here. Rob Shaul of Mountain Athlete has been posting interesting email exchanges on the workouts page of his site. Good reading.Oh, and if you haven't been to Dave MacLeod's blog yet, go spend some time there as well. Lots of good info there, like How do I get better?! (in one email).
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Thank Brian, I've been looking for a resource like Dave's blog for a while now. I started re-reading "The self-coached climber" last night, and am still not really digging it.
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