Training
Browse all training articles from the Entralpi blog.
Finding and Organising Your Climbing Goals
Training can turn into a pile of exercises collected from everywhere. Félicien Roy works through how to define goals first, so the exercises follow from something.
Partial Hangs
Keeping your feet on the ground isolates climbing movements and lets you dial intensity precisely. Simpler than full hangs, and closer to what climbing actually asks of you.
Avoiding Ground Falls on Trad
Trad comes with horror stories about gear ripping and decking. Three habits that let you start placing your own protection without learning the hard way.
Training for Monos
Pulling hard on one finger sounds like an injury waiting to happen. Done gradually it builds strength that transfers to other grips — and protects the hand when a finger slips.
Training Your Head to Climb Harder
Coming back from injury with no expectations, Sabrina Thayer-Head spent a season working on the least glamorous part of climbing — and had her best results yet. Five things she learned.
Training at Home
With the gyms shut, how do you keep the progress you made over winter? A climber's finger-training week, broken down by energy system.
Daily Training Routine
A three-minute finger routine you can do every day, rest days included. Low enough to recover from, frequent enough to matter for tendons.
Warm-up Routine
Most climbers walk in and get straight on the wall. A five-minute routine — cardio, mobility, finger warm-up, specific work, then pyramids — costs little and protects a lot.
Aerobic Endurance on the Hangboard
The pump that won't go away is an aerobic problem, not a strength problem. How to train forearm aerobic capacity with intermittent hangs at 20–35% of your max.
