Blog 1 (The Principles Of Training)
General Principles of Training
Have an Objective:
For individual training sessions know your objective, work all out to achieve it, and then stop. The common mistake in climbing training is to go to the wall, do some routes/problems of no particular intensity, and to keep climbing, dropping the grade as fatigue sets in, until it's time to go home. You may think you're training because you're typically trashed by the end of it just from of the sheer amount of climbing done, but by sett…
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Blog 2 (Strength and Power)
Types of Contraction
All types of strength are a result of individual muscle fibres contracting, a muscle fibre contracts fully or not at all, the number of muscle fibres that contract simultaneously define the amount of force a muscle can produce and whether that muscle can overcome, maintain, or slowly lower the load it's working against.
If the force generated by the muscle fibres is greater than the load, then the entire muscle length will shorten and the load will move, this is c…
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