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The amount of information that we can currently access is overwhelming. The proliferation of sports culture, the increasingly better climbing walls, easy access to climbing equipment, the internet ... All this has greatly facilitated the practice of such an incredible sport as climbing. However, we don't always know how to filter and select which one is correct. Most of the people who train –and not only in the field of climbing– base their exercises on what they have heard, what their friend does (which works for him), what that influencer proposes, the no pain no gain, what has always been done, the bro science ...
The purpose of this manual is to provide quality information to the reader, from the climber who wants to take another step in his training - whether he is starting to climb sixth grade or working the eighth - to the sports technician who wants to improve the training of his students. This book does not provide any revolutionary or magical training method, but rather tries to analyze sports needs from an exercise science point of view to teach the reader to develop training based on evidence, not clairvoyance. br>
The first part of this book seeks to make the reader understand what training is and how the physiological and biomechanical functioning of the body determine training methods. The second part analyzes and proposes how to improve each and every one of the specific needs (finger strength, resistance of the forearm muscles ...) and general (basic physical condition, traction force, propulsion, strength training to prevent injuries …) For the different requirements and modalities of climbing. And the third and last part, once each and every one of the pieces of the puzzle has been understood, seeks to propose the best way to unite them, to integrate them, adjusting the training volume and its intensity, reducing the training to the optimum level when necessary to produce a supercompensation, to achieve the final image: an improvement in performance, an increase in the level of climbing, the long-awaited chain, the achievement of that route that you wanted so much to climb.
If the author could summarize the content of this book in one sentence, it would be his training philosophy: «More is not better; better is better. And he would like it to help you, as Alvin Toffler said, "learn, unlearn and relearn".