Research & Data
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…
December 11th, 2017
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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…
November 10th, 2017
Read more >Finger Strength | Research & Data | Strength & Power
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…
November 8th, 2017
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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…
November 1st, 2017
Read more >Nutrition | Research & Data
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…
October 30th, 2017
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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…
October 13th, 2017
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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…
October 10th, 2017
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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…
October 9th, 2017
Read more >Nutrition | Research & Data
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….
October 9th, 2017
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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…
October 4th, 2017
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