After two decades of climbing, training and coaching, the authors have built up a huge library of exercises, and they share many of them with you in this book. That stuff is useful for new climbers, but I’d argue that that material is much more important for people who have been climbing for a long time.

The final section, on climbing exercises for children and young people, will be invaluable for those wanting to give their child a taste of the climbing wall in a safe and fun way. She's still a little young to be focusing on the strength training the authors advocate is beneficial at all ages, but then she also enjoys gymnastics which I feel compliments the climbing and other activities she takes.

So down to the highway Zacchaeus went, hurrying along with the gathering crowd; for Jesus was to pass that way. The name says it all, The Climbing Bible: Practical Exercises is a collection of exercises that have been collated to help you develop your climbing technique and strength. On the travelers went till they came to the sycamore-tree, and here Jesus and his disciples stood still. It’s a valuable addition to the growing lexicon of training literature, which will no doubt continue to expand as climbing reaches ever wider audiences. However, it is important to note that this book is intended as a companion to The Climbing Bible (English translation published 2020).

Keep it in your climbing wall bag, cover it in chalk and embrace the variety so easily found in climbing. It’s grounded in plenty of real life examples and interviews with top climbers, and it’s really helpful to see how people have tried the advice and found it to be helpful. The authors have plenty of credentials to help, as climbers, coaches and physiotherapist, and the exercises are easy to understand and accessible. Following their impressive book covering performance factors and climbing theory, “The Climbing Bible”, the Norwegian authors have produced a sequel, or rather an extension, which presents a series of illustrated practical exercises (the clue is in the title! Being used to climbing with pumped forearms, knowing that you are able to still clip the quickdraws, daring to do a few more moves, knowing that you are able to stop and shake out some of the pump, that you are capable of doing hard moves even when pumped – these are all important mental attributes that constitute endurance performance.And he said, "Today salvation is come to your house, for the Son of man is come to seek and to save those who are lost.

Martin has coached the Norwegian Climbing Federation’s youth recruits and many of the stronger juniors in the Trondheim community for the past ten years. The original book was written in Norwegian and published and 2018, and this English version was published in 2020, and the translation is excellent. Having good proprioception/kinasthesia is fundamental to climbing but is so often neglected in favour of getting strong as fast as possible. The Strength and Power chapters offer a wide range of bodily tortures to feed your masochistic side. The book is broken down into 6 main chapters: Technique, Physical training, Mental training, Tactics, General Training and Injury Prevention, and Training plans.For example how to gradually build up finger boarding strength or progress through the stages of developing the core strength to perform front-levers (whether I'll ever achieve this is another matter!