How to construct Upper Body Strength For Rising

Click here to see the full article on climbingthings.com

Upper body strength is a vital element of rock climbing. Building body strength will enhance the endurance, precision and technique with the climber which all combine to build the overall climbing package.

Improving upper body strength

Obviously, as any experienced climber will tell you, the best way for beginners to improve strength for climbing is to climb regularly and to constantly challenge yourself and build in your ability. There are also techniques as well as exercises that advanced climbers incorporate the use of to improve the effectiveness and intensity with their climbing gym workouts.

If you can’t regularly get to the climbing gym, then we are going to show you how you is able to do exercises at home to improve your upper body strength.

Upper body strength may be grouped into two main physical exercise groups.

- Pulling exercises

-- Pushing exercises

Pulling exercises

Pulling exercises engage the muscles mainly in your back and you'll be able to imagine why it is important to build strength in this region of the body. Pulling exercises are such things as rows and pull ups. There is some discussion regarding the effectiveness of standard pull ups and many people believe that pull ups are certainly not effective for climbers or as realistic for an actual climbing situation as horizontal rows (or inverted rows).

This makes sense if you feel about it, try and imagine a time period whilst climbing that you realistically needed to train on a vertical pull up motion.

Usually the only times you'll want to engage your upper body on its own without the help of your lower body is with overhanging rock or surfaces. Using proper technique means that you simply generally don’t have to pull the body directly vertical as with an ordinary pull up but more horizontally like this of the inverted row (see online video below).

Click here to see the full article on climbingthings.com

http://climbingthings.com/upper-body-strength-for-climbing/