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Anonymous
This might sound silly, but I want to be able to climb as well as Altaïr (or as close to it that it as realistically possible). Any recommendations for achieving this? Here's a few of my thoughts to start off:

-Strong legs (that's where squatz come in)
-Good arms and back endurance (pull-ups sounds perfect for this)
-Really strong grip (squeezing a tennis-ball? That's what I've heard works)

Any other traits needed? Also, good ways to train for them?
>> Anonymous
Lots of chinups, 1 armed chinups etc
not really strong legs, you'll build alot of quad mass, and that'll make it much harder, you'll want to train for very little size in legs (5 sets of 3, heavy as you can go)
strong grip, captain crush are my fav.

interesting goal, I guess if I were you I'd look in to how rock climbers do their thing.
>> Anonymous
>>95380
forgot to mention that alot of calf strength, not size once again, would be godamned handy.

also, muscle ups.
>> Anonymous
Don't squat, learn to do pistols and do vertical and broad jumps. Do pullups not faggoty chinups or muscle ups and use a thumbless grip. Do dips if you can otherwise just do burpees or some shit.
>> Anonymous
>>95380
>>95382
me again, and in response tooo
>>95394
he's spot on, I call everything chinups, because I'm a lazy fag, but thumbless pull ups would be your best option, and 1 handers too, in terms of pulling strength.
Muscle ups are still a go, in my opinion, even if you're swinging alot.
Pistols over squats is another good idea, and instead of trying to get more weight, try to get height by jumping.

Snatches (surprisingly) seem to help vert jumps, so consider learning some olympic lifting.

I didn't really consider my answer fully, so ty to that dude for fixing my mistakes:p
>> Anonymous
>>95380
+1 on the rock climbing thing. I'm a climber myself, and trust me, climbing is NOT all about strength- knowing how to use your body effectively will get you up assloads of more walls than just muscle. Case in point: there is this "bad ass macho dude" that works at a wall I frequently go to, and he is pretty fuckin jacked (muuuch more than I am), but I can outclimb his ass on anything.

tldr; if you want to be a badass climber, start rock climbing. no sense dicking around, doing everything BUT climbing... also, rock climbing is fuckin fun, too.
>> Anonymous
>>95437
I do the same as you, but sometimes there are those jacked up guys that can jump on the hard routes and basically throw themselves from hold to hold. I watched one guy fling his body weight up about 5ft and then repeated it again on the next hold for another 5ft. (Not really a dyno, but kindof like it)

But when it comes to endurance or technique the 'strong guys' can't compete with experience.
>> sage !jyye8faDxg
start climbing shit, faggot
>> Anonymous
Climbing is 90% in the legs
>> xrkfrm !O4ZEpB7lss
>>96189
no
>> Anonymous
Honestly, climbers aren't really that athletic.

They have really good muscular endurance (Useless for running, jumping, etc.) which is good for them, plus a really, really low body fat percentage.

If I was you, and wanted to climb, I would Climb a lot, and probably do some sort of body-builder routine.
>> Anonymous
>>96210

Because all of us here at /fit/ know bodybuilding is the pinnacle of athletic performance. Thank You, Anon.
>> Anonymous
>>96211
Uhhh, climbers don't need explosive power, they need muscular endurance to be able to hold certain positions repetitively.

If he was training for something like basketball, I wouldn't recommend bodybuilding, because it would hurt them athleticly.
>> Anonymous
>>96213

I am going to assume you meant to put ten, nigger.
>> Anonymous
>>96217

Uhhh, ten where?
>> Anonymous
>>96195
you know nothing about climbing
>> xrkfrm !O4ZEpB7lss
>>96234
actually, I climb a fair bit... I do most of it with my arms...

I've never done gym climbing... that may be more legwork than outdoor... I wouldn't know... but outdoor, my arms always feel like they've gotten more work than my legs
>> Anonymous
>>96255
If you did any serious outdoor climbing and you used your arms more than your legs, your forearms would cramp and seize up after about 50 metres of climbing. It doesn't matter how strong your upper body is - the position of your arms and constant contraction of your muscles mean the blood flow to them will be severely compromised and muscle fatigue by-products would accumulate to no end.

But even if you use your legs predominantly in climbing, your arms would still feel more fatigued just because of the fact that you're using them too.
>> Anonymous
>>96259

Is right, legs are more important than arms in climbing. Any good climber has really good footwork and uses a lot of their legs to keep off their arms as much as possible.
>> xrkfrm !O4ZEpB7lss
>>96259
>50 meters

The largest face in my area (to my knowledge) is 30 meters.... and I don't imply that I'm pulling myself up by my arms... rather that my arms actually do a lot more than they are conditioned for compared to my legs (which have an easy job for how they are conditioned)

tl;dr - I worded it poorly, but my point stands that arms require more additional conditioning than legs for someone already in shape
>> Anonymous
>>95374

Back workouts, wide grip pull-ups, high rep squats, calves, abs, and to work on your grip try hanging for long periods straight armed from w/e you do pull ups on, don't use full grip on the bar though, hang with your finger tips. Besides that your best training would be doing actual rock climbing, boulder will build a lot of strength, as most boulder problems are short climbs but are usually quite difficult, while longer climbs will build your endurance.
>> Anonymous
>>96269
That is very different to outright denying that legs take precedence in climbing. Your legs are designed for supporting your bodyweight, unlike your arms, so naturally you'd have to condition them more in order to overcome obstacles such as overhangs etc.
>> xrkfrm !O4ZEpB7lss
>>96274
then we are agreed