Conditioning for Climbers: The Complete Exercise Guide (How To Climb Series)

Having read and been impressed by previous books by Eric Horst I thought it was worth giving `Conditioning For Climbers' a try and I have to say I am glad I did. It offers up comprehensive training techniques in a colourful and well laid out format. If you have read `Training for Climbing' or `Learning to Climb Indoors' then some of the information will seem repetitive, but if not then this gives you a detailed and sound training plan to improve overall climbing fitness and strength. A lot of the training outlined is based on sound scientific principles and gives you confidence in trying them out. This book covers Conditioning Principles and Self Assessment, General Conditioning, Climbing-Specific Conditioning, Conditioning Program, Performance Nutrition and Injury Prevention and appendices looking at muscle anatomy and training charts. This has extensive photos in colour that illustrate the exercises being shown, and plenty of graphs and charts to back up information in the text. Horst's writing style is very easy to read and makes what can be a dry topic fun and engaging. If you are serious about improving your climbing abilities then this is the book to head for. Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

Great insight into conditoning for the armature climber

Would consider for beginners and those who are looking into taking seriously climbing as way of a lifestyle! Would love to see more indepth, but can do it on your own,by researching multiple resources! Thank you Eric!

This is truly fantastic, some excellent workouts and tips that have already greatly improved my performance, especially my finger and forearm strength. Highly recommended no mater your grading, 5*

Brilliant. I constantly refer to this book, it is complete and covers everything from specific exercises to easy instructions to help you build up a training plan to nutrition and more.

I have both 'Training for Climbing' and 'Conditioning for Climbers'. They make good textbooks with good indepth information and a whole heap of excercises. Not a blow by blow account on Self help but a good source of information to arm yourself with to figure out how to train better.

Not very different from any training book. But some useful chapters on specific climbing exercises

Great source of info for climbers who want to climb a little more seriously.

Best Climbing text Ever.

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Good explanations, easy to read, great book, the warm up section is great for everyone. A must read. Maybe complement with some videos

Complete and exaustive, there's an interesting part about compensation training, not a revolutionary method but nonetheless useful and giving some good cues

Horst is prolific in this space and knows what he is talking about. This has some excellent tips for conditioning, especially in the area of injury prevention. I have worked many of the exercises listed within into my conditioning program with good results. The only caveat is that he tends to overemphasize sport-specificity to the point of making general conditioning seem under-important. Particularly useful are the self-evaluation questionnaires, which can identify the particular area you need to train (and not just physical training, which is covered by this book, but also technical and mental training). While these self-evaluations are a part of all of Horst's books (including Training or Climbing, and How to Climb 5.12), the evaluations in this book are much more elaborate than those in any of the others. In spite of a lot of overlap with Training for Climbing and How to Climb 5.12, every climber should still have this book in his or her library.