The Climbing Bible: Practical Exercises: Technique and strength training for climbing: 2
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The Climbing Bible: Practical Exercises by Martin Mobråten and Stian Christophersen is a collection of exercises specifically designed to help you train technique and strength so that you can develop and improve as a climber. 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. The first section focuses on your technique, with emphasis on footwork, grip positions, balance, direction of force and dynamics, among other things. The second section features exercises to help you train strength and power – with on-the-wall exercises, finger strength and fingerboarding exercises, arm exercises and more. Also included is a section for children and young climbers to help their parents and coaches create great sessions for kids. This chapter presents games, technique exercises and physical training ideas for children. Illustrated with over 200 technique and action photos, and with insights from the authors and other top climbers, The Climbing Bible: Practical Exercises will inspire you to try new exercises in every training session. Keep it in your climbing wall bag, cover it in chalk and embrace the variety so easily found in climbing. Review: Helps my climbing - Great series, really enjoying these. Review: Best climbing trilogy there is - Gift to wife and son who climb (all 3)
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| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 236 Reviews |
M**N
Helps my climbing
Great series, really enjoying these.
R**E
Best climbing trilogy there is
Gift to wife and son who climb (all 3)
J**O
Lot of little tips
Great book full of little tips
D**K
A must for any climbing fan
Lovely read - well illustrated and a must for any climbing fan.
K**N
Climbing is life
A great purchase for my climbing crazy son, the book is full of lots of details need for progressing in his climbing journey
S**3
Good
Good
T**H
Gift.
Liked by the climber who received it
L**R
A well-presented selection of training exercises
This book is almost worth buying just for the gorgeous photos; the stories from Norwegian climbers are also a treat. They also help to link the exercises to "real" climbing, giving additional motivation and inspiration. The exercises are generally clearly explained with helpful accompanying photographs, and bonus helpful hints annotated alongside in red. Short summaries accompany many of the wordier explanations, so that you can check how many reps "at a glance". There is a good variety of exercises, with suitable emphasis given to how you can train without injury and to offering variations and ways of making training more fun. However, it is important to note that this book is intended as a companion to The Climbing Bible (English translation published 2020). As such it leaves out endurance, flexibility and the mental side of climbing. Instead, the three chapters focus on Technique, Strength & Power and Children/Youth respectively, providing exercises whereby you can train these aspects. It also means that the book frequently refers to the earlier book, saying "we explained XYZ in that book". Whilst this book does stand alone, I suspect it might work even better if used in conjunction with the other book. Fortunately Vertebrate offers a bundle which will allow you to do just that. The translation from the Norwegian is excellent, with only one small slip that I spotted. Overall a thoroughly useful and well-presented book that will help climbers looking to train particular aspects of their climbing or adults looking for exercises for their kids classes.
E**I
Ottimo
Ottimo libro con consigli, esercizi e trucchi.
N**Z
Climb and read
Very informative with illustrations
A**A
A decent amount of good drills.
Good amount of drills, very well explained but somehow I expected more for the price.
M**S
bon livre
Satisfait
S**S
Good
Good book
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