Favorite rock climbing training drills

climbing_drills.md

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