A detailed look at monitoring the load on your body, how to adjust it, when and in what way according to your goals.

As climbers we ask an awful lot of our fingers. They are compressed, stretched, twisted, jammed into cracks and subjected to all sorts of forces. It is a testament to the amazing ability of the body to adapt that they can do all of these. But it is also no surprise that fingers are commonly injured, accounting for around 40% of all climbing related injuries.

Nothing is more likely to hold you back in your climbing than getting injured.
Avoiding injury is a performance enhancer.

Andy McVittie looks at the importance of core from the perspective of coaching and training. He examines what it is, the different types of movement the core is involved in, how that relates to climbing and how we can then train it specifically to improve our climbing.

Andy McVittie talks us through how to train improvements in heel hooking and reduce injury risk from them.

Andy McVittie talks us through elbow tendinopathies and the follow-up steps in solving them after the initial steps of reducing pain and improving strength. 

Andy McVittie talks us through elbow tendinopathies and the first steps in solving them in the context of the Coronavirus lockdown.