This article is for the climbers who seem to go from one injury to the next… to the next. If you’ve spent days’ worth of time rolling your back on the foam roller and STILL are struggling to fight “climber posture” then please read on because the culprit might be the posterior chain.
The posterior chain is an extremely important system for climbers. It plays a crucial role in injury prevention and climbing performance by providing antagonist support to the anterior chain muscles that are often over-developed in climbers. When we climbers start having troubled spots in our overused areas, we are told we need to strengthen our antagonist muscles. But this general advice can be really confusing and choosing the right antagonist focused exercises is even more difficult.
TrainingBeta is a site dedicated to training for climbing, built because they wanted all of the best training resources in one place. TB has a regular blog and podcast, and many climbing training programs that are easy to follow so you can just go into the gym and do your thing without thinking too much about it.
