Keen Hiking Boots Men
Keen Hiking Boots Men
I am a keen hiker and I am currently planning my next mountain. However I will be ensuring I am fit enough for the hike.
However a sport and pastime closely linked to hiking is rock climbing. Rock climbing is a strenuous activity and you obviously need to be fit. The question I have asked in the past is how do you improve your climbing fitness?
Rock climbing whether it is indoors or outdoors requires:
1. Upper body strength and pulling power in order to use your arms to pull you to the next position. You can perform any pulling exercise in the gym to improve your upper body strength and climbing fitness. A good one for climbing is pole pulling exercises. This is where you hold on to a pole or beam in the gym and keep pulling your whole body up and down.
2. Good flexibility to ensure that you are able to reach the next handhold which could be quite a stretch away. Also you may need to raise your leg very high for the next foothold. So you need to be able to get into all sorts of awkward positions. So all stretching exercises either in or out the gym are great for climbing fitness. Remember to stretch and then hold the stretch for at least 30 seconds.
3. Hip and ankle stability is important for your balance. You can use an exercise where you stand on one leg and bend your leg so your body bends down to your foot. You can use a dumb bell for greater intensity. This will help train your stability and balance.
Of course just climbing is one of the best forms of climbing fitness. This means that you may want to train in an indoor climbing wall using various climbing routes. This will be good training for the actual climbing at a later date. This will ensure that you use all the techniques required.
Great training for the kids in the gym is climbing up a rope that has knots at various heights. This makes the exercise fun and helps the child to enhance their climbing muscles and co-ordination.
This of course is by no means the full list of climbing fitness exercises but a sample of some which will be useful.
Have a great climb but please be fit and prepare your climbing fitness.
I enjoy Hiking and also writing a Hiking and Rambling blog which I fully populate with videos and articles on a regular basis.
Please see my Hiking and Rambling blog here
http://ramblingwalking.blogspot.com/
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