by David Sandel | Mar 21, 2012 | Climbing, Training
How do you go about balancing your training with your sport? In college it was easy. The coaches forced you to lift weights and work on sprint mechanics. Plus, if you had any dreams of getting on the field, you needed to do those things to beat out your competition....
by David Sandel | Mar 9, 2012 | Climbing, Training
If you haven’t figured it out by now, I’m completely addicted to climbing. Like, not just that I really like it, but actually addicted. I can’t go more than 2 days without climbing, and that includes the days after a competition or 3 days straight of...
by David Sandel | Nov 30, 2010 | Climbing, Random Awesomeness, Training
It feels a lot to me like grip training is the new strongman training. Strongman training used to be popular back in the early days before people really knew (or cared) about how they were supposed to lift to get big and strong. They just kinda lifted heavy shit all...
by David Sandel | Sep 8, 2010 | Climbing, Training
That title makes me giggle. I hate it when people describe a lift as being functional. What does that mean? Does that mean that a squat isn’t functional because they’re not called functional squats? What about functional strength? Does that mean...
by David Sandel | Aug 25, 2010 | Climbing, Food, Lifestyle, Random Awesomeness, Training
Why, hello again! Long time no communication, eh? Sorry about it. Moving on….I’m pretty lazy (as has been noted several times), and this is me writing a cop-out post about my progress as of late… Training People keep asking me, “are you still...
