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Favorite rock climbing training drills

Climbing Drills

  • Doubles
    • First lap, ideal. Second, lap drill
  • Latch, then wave down relaxation
  • Breathing
    • nose only
    • deep exhale
  • Positioning
    • No hip drop
    • Latch & stay tight (keep pushing with lower hand)
    • Push through the foothold
    • Rest every move
    • Awkward recovery
    • Arms stay, feet move
    • Feet stay, arms move
    • Diagnol lock-offs (low, mid, high)
    • Hip lock-offs while pressing in
  • Modulate pace
    • Slower
    • Faster
    • Fast, faster, fastest
    • Snappy
  • On-wall mobility
    • Open hips, forced turnout (especially when down climbing)
    • Frog feet matching hold
    • High step
      • Inside, near body
      • Outside, far from body
    • Triple toe tango
  • Off-wall mobility
    • Frog
      • move trunk up and down
      • rotate legs
    • drop knee
      • cricket style
      • standing with no hands and twisting around
  • Movement
    • Moving button
  • Feet variations
    • front point
    • smear
    • both on
    • turn in
    • turn out
    • All heel hooks
    • 3 foot movements for every 1 hand movement
    • fewest feet
  • Leg variations
    • 1 feet only
    • Both feet all the time
    • Step through
    • Extreme flag
  • Hand variations
    • all match
    • all cross
      • big cross
      • small cross
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