Train For Climbing Smarter Not Harder – Steve Bechtel

Watch as The Climbing Doctor interviews Steve Bechtel on all topics related to climbing and injuries. They go deep on training mistakes that are common with climbers, training exercises, power exercises for climbing performance, climbing assessments, inside elbow pain, and how to warm-up the hands and fingers for climbing.

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3:17 Mistakes and errors that climbers make with training
6:55
What are your biases of types of exercises that climbers should use to train
9:13
How important is lower body power for climbing
11:37 Assessments typically performed on climbers
16:13
A discussion about Steve’s medial epicondylitis
24:00 Some great analogies on analysis paralysis and overtraining
26:16
Warming up the hands and fingers
35:08
Go-to exercises for climber’s