3 ESSENTIALS TO CLIMB AT YOUR PEAK 1. SERIOUS DURABILITY. Beef up your tendons with Long Duration Hangs (approx 30s x 3sets with 3mins rest). The load is only moderate, but it shouldn’t feel like that by the end, go to task failure. The prolonged stretch appears to be one of the best ways to induce thickening and strengthening of the tendons. 2. MAD STRENGTH. Increase your maximum force with 6-8sec hangs at about 95% of your max, and stop before failure. I’ll often do 3 with 20s of rest, and then take 3mins off before repeating them. These intense efforts will create high levels of intra-muscular mechanical tension, which will notch up your finger strength. 3. EXPLOSIVE POWER. All the strength in the world will be useless on the rock, if you can’t access it quick enough. Improve your snatching speed with these quick catches. 3-4 high speed efforts, should be preceded by a solid warm up, and followed by 3-5mins of recovery. When you’re ready to graduate from quick-hit instagram advice, and start training for real - check out our climbing training plans! Train well, and recover better: I’m using @gnarlynutrition after a hard session