<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Entralpi Blog</title><description>Training protocols, product news, and what climbers say about the force plate.</description><link>https://entralpi.com/</link><language>en</language><item><title>Finding and Organising Your Climbing Goals</title><link>https://entralpi.com/blogs/training/setting-climbing-goals/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://entralpi.com/blogs/training/setting-climbing-goals/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>training</category><author>Félicien Roy</author></item><item><title>Partial Hangs</title><link>https://entralpi.com/blogs/training/partial-hangs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://entralpi.com/blogs/training/partial-hangs/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>training</category><author>Félix Bourassa-Moreau</author></item><item><title>Avoiding Ground Falls on Trad</title><link>https://entralpi.com/blogs/training/avoiding-ground-falls-on-trad/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://entralpi.com/blogs/training/avoiding-ground-falls-on-trad/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>training</category><author>Félix Bourassa-Moreau</author></item><item><title>Training for Monos</title><link>https://entralpi.com/blogs/training/mono-finger-training/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://entralpi.com/blogs/training/mono-finger-training/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>training</category><author>Félix Bourassa-Moreau</author></item><item><title>Training Your Head to Climb Harder</title><link>https://entralpi.com/blogs/training/mental-training-for-climbing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://entralpi.com/blogs/training/mental-training-for-climbing/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>training</category><author>Sabrina Thayer-Head</author></item><item><title>Virtual events for climbers</title><link>https://entralpi.com/blogs/news/virtual-climbing-meetings/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://entralpi.com/blogs/news/virtual-climbing-meetings/</guid><description>In April 2020, with gyms shut, we kept a calendar of the online gatherings and workshops climbers were running. An archived note from that spring.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category><author>Entralpi</author></item><item><title>Training at Home</title><link>https://entralpi.com/blogs/training/training-at-home/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://entralpi.com/blogs/training/training-at-home/</guid><description>With the gyms shut, how do you keep the progress you made over winter? A climber&apos;s finger-training week, broken down by energy system.</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>training</category><author>Julien Corneau</author></item><item><title>Entralpi Closes Store for Green Friday</title><link>https://entralpi.com/blogs/news/green-friday/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://entralpi.com/blogs/news/green-friday/</guid><description>We closed the store on Black Friday and joined Green Friday instead. Why a company that sells hardware would rather you bought nothing that day.</description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category><author>Entralpi</author></item><item><title>Daily Training Routine</title><link>https://entralpi.com/blogs/training/daily-training-routine/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://entralpi.com/blogs/training/daily-training-routine/</guid><description>A three-minute finger routine you can do every day, rest days included. Low enough to recover from, frequent enough to matter for tendons.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>training</category><author>Félix Bourassa-Moreau</author></item><item><title>Warm-up Routine</title><link>https://entralpi.com/blogs/training/warm-up-routine/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://entralpi.com/blogs/training/warm-up-routine/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>training</category><author>Félix Bourassa-Moreau</author></item><item><title>Urban bouldering in Montreal</title><link>https://entralpi.com/blogs/news/urban-bouldering-in-montreal/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://entralpi.com/blogs/news/urban-bouldering-in-montreal/</guid><description>OnSite moved three granite boulders and more than 20 problems into central Montreal — the latest chapter in a long local habit of climbing on whatever the city offers.</description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category><author>Félix Bourassa-Moreau</author></item><item><title>Aerobic Endurance on the Hangboard</title><link>https://entralpi.com/blogs/training/aerobic-endurance-with-the-hangboard/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://entralpi.com/blogs/training/aerobic-endurance-with-the-hangboard/</guid><description>The pump that won&apos;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.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>training</category><author>Félix Bourassa-Moreau</author></item><item><title>Ariane Sisavath</title><link>https://entralpi.com/blogs/stories/ariane-sisavath/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://entralpi.com/blogs/stories/ariane-sisavath/</guid><description>Recovering from four years of chronic finger pain, and coming back stronger than before.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>stories</category><author>Ariane Sisavath</author></item><item><title>Patrick Matros</title><link>https://entralpi.com/blogs/stories/partrick-matros/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://entralpi.com/blogs/stories/partrick-matros/</guid><description>Patrick Matros on where Entralpi sits among the climbing training devices available today.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>stories</category><author>Patrick Matros</author></item><item><title>Eric Hörst</title><link>https://entralpi.com/blogs/stories/eric-horst/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://entralpi.com/blogs/stories/eric-horst/</guid><description>A climbing coach on using Entralpi to measure maximum finger force and guide submaximal isotonic training protocols.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>stories</category><author>Eric Hörst</author></item></channel></rss>