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Climbing Training 10-Feb-2012 At 4:31:15 PM pickles

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It is difficult to do structured training when you dont know what you are supposed to be working on.

Say I have two mates who both want to climb harder sport or trad:

One has bouldered up to V10 but struggles on a 24 sport route. Can do all the moves pretty easily off the rope. (hate to think how shit they are on trad)

Other mate climbs grade 28 but struggles on anything harder than a V4.

Not knowing much more about the two I would say one probably needs to work on technique and endurance if they want to progress as they are clearly strong enough.

The other would probably benefit from power and strength training.

I'll leave it to you to decided which works for which person but the point I am trying to dance around is that if you haven't done enough climbing to know what your key strengths and weaknesses are then get out and climb as any other training wont be as productive.