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Training, Climbing Movement

Climbing Workouts – Drills and Excercises

American Alpine Institute
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The Climbing Movement Essential Training Series on Youtube is kind of awesome. The series is composed of a number of well produced videos that focus on different aspects of training for climbing.

This particular blog post is specifically oriented toward drills and exercises from the videos. The first video looks at “The Session,” which is composed of specific training for common climbing movement.

The second video looks specifically at developing movement on a “Systems Training Wall.” This is a wall that allows one to work certain movements over and over again.


Certainly, it’s reasonable to do a lot of these workouts in a rock gym without this kind of wall. One just has to be a bit creative.

–Jason D. Martin

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