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Can indoor climbers do slabs?
There’s a common stereotype that climbers who spend a lot of their time indoors lack the finesse of climbers who spend more time outdoors, but is it true?! Let’s have a
Interview: Dale Comley, The Lattice Training Product Designer
Dale’s Introduction into The Lattice Family Back in 2016, Dale Comley and Ollie Torr were getting seriously cold and wet trying to climb Deep Blue Sea, a route on the
Do strength imbalances make a difference in climbing? Part 1
We were thinking about left-right hand strength imbalances recently and instead of asking all the questions ourselves we thought it would be fun to put it to you, the climbers, in
Interview: Remus Knowles, the Lattice Training Data Analyst
Who is Remus?! Remus joined the team in 2015 as a result of what was a pivotal motorway service station meeting. We sat down amongst old boxes of McDonalds Happy
BMI and Climbing Part 3, ALL 8a.nu Climbers
We’ve already written a few posts looking at BMI and climbing across a few different data sets, and now comes the final chapter! We’ve combined every single ascent logged on 8a.nu with
Are Hard Climbs Better? Part 2
In our previous post we looked at user ratings for ascents in the 8a.nu top 100 female/sport/boulder database. We missed an important detail though…when an ascent is logged a default rating of
8a.nu Climbers
In previous posts where we’ve looked at data from 8a.nu it’s always been from climbers in the top 100 rankings (female/sport/boulder). This gives us a nice snapshot of ‘elite’ climbers,
Are Hard Climbs Better?
[Update 13/10/2017: user NP pointed out an interesting issue with the below article in the comments. We’ve done a follow up in Are Hard Climbs Better? Part 2] Have you
BMI and Climbing Part 2, Elite Climbers
We’ve already looked at BMI in climbing a couple of times, first in our own data and secondly looking at an overview of some numbers from 8a.nu. Today we’re going to have
Open or half crimp for performance profiling in climbing?
We use maximal finger strength (as measured by a 5 sec. hang on a 20mm Lattice Edge) as a key data point in our performance profiling and when combined with
BMI and Climbing
It is well known that climbing (both bouldering and sport climbing) is a sport that is affected by power to weight ratios. The biggest factor that bodyweight affects is the
BMI in elite level climbers
Body weight in climbing is a hot topic of discussion and has been for a long time. It’s widely acknowledged that carefully controlled body fat composition can help in some