Training for bouldering

I also forgot to mention working on long traverses at and below your level. If you can learn to stay on the rock longer and rest on the better holds and keep breathing, you will not fall off a route just from getting pumped.

since everyone else is giving their own (questionable) advice i have a little more.

pullups, hangboard, core, and climbing a lot of 9's and 10's.

recently i was in the same position, stuck around v3, bad endurance, not really improving, and slightly frustrated. I dont like to train, i like to climb, so what i did was a few nights a week of pull ups and hangboarding, core workouts, and when i could climbing routes that required some technique.

what turned it around for me was developing a base of strength that i didnt get through just bouldering,even though thats what i want to be doing.

Kevin Stricker wrote: Do 5 pullups, 10 pushups, then 15 air squats, then go back and do it again...and again...and again until you are ready to barf or about 10 minutes have passed.

Ever heard of crossfit?

crossfit.com/mt-archive2/00…

suprasoup wrote:This is all you need. PERIOD.

i dont know who this guy is, or what thats a picture of, but i do know if you dont have one youre a fat punter

Its a sloper campus board. Amazed the neighbors put up with that.

Mike Anderson wrote:Dear God! There is some really bad advice in this thread. I might as well add to it: Why don't you just enjoy climbing for another couple years. You have your whole life to systematically, slowly, and painfully, but certainly suck out every golden drop of innocent joy that the sport ever offered you.... Get back to me when you find yourself camped out at the base of some shitty road-cut chosspile throwing F-bomb infused woblers every time your foot pops off that polished, over-chalked smear at the crux of your super-sick new linkup/eliminate of "Warmup Problem" and "Center Problem Direct" (the good crimper is off) with a downclimb of "Middle-Left-Right-Left-Down Problem". I mean, get back to me when you hate climbing.

So funny, but still so true.