Training Lessons from the Over 50s
Tom discusses how best to train once over 50; what your priorities are, and what kind of training might work for you.
Author: Tom Randall
Women’s Training Symposium 2019
[Tom: Welcome to a special guest blog! We work with two climbers over in Germany, Mischa Hawker-Yates and Cora Schubert, who happen to go out together and also climb/train together! When we they came over to the UK for the Women’s Training Symposium we thought it would be a great chance to have Mischa observe […]
Training Series: Finger Strength
In this blogpost, Tom talks about finger strength and gives you his top tips for improving and maximising your finger strength.
Training Series: Conditioning & Mobility
This series of articles was originally written for UKC, offering information and insight into different aspects of training. In this blogpost, Tom talks about conditioning and mobility; why they matter, different exercises for each, and how conditioning and mobility can improve your general climbing performance. Find the original UKC article here. For the purposes of […]
Training Series: Strength & Power
This blogpost in the training series talks about strength and power; why it matters, how to train strength and power respectively, and how to structure your training.
Training Series: Power Endurance
This series of articles was originally written for UKC, offering information and insight into different aspects of training. In this blogpost, Tom talks about power endurance; the different types of power endurance training, what sessions to do for each, and how to structure your training to your specific style of climbing. Find the original UKC […]
Training Series: Endurance
This blogpost covers endurance training; what it is, why train it, and how to train endurance as a route-climber or boulderer.
Making Successful Climbing Goals
CLIMBING GOALS! Many of us will be thinking about our goals for this coming year (New Year’s Day recovery always does that!) and we wanted to give you a bit of a guide on how to do this effectively. We get to watch many goals chased, achieved and sometimes fallen-short of each year. Naturally, we […]
Research Discussion: Movement Economy
Lattice and The Beta Angel Project are at it again! This time, we decided to chat with Taylor about the research of climbing efficiency. This will be a topic that is certainly distinct from our past collaborations which involved the hard numbers and precise methods of finger strength and RFD (Rate of Force Production, or […]
Research Discussion: Eva Lopez-Rivera Finger Strength
After the great feedback we received from our recent community discussion on the Rate of Force Development (i.e. contact strength) with Taylor Reed from The Beta Angel Project, we thought we should do another one! This time we wanted to discuss a specific piece of research from the most extensive finger strength researcher in the […]