{"id":1642,"date":"2009-10-09T13:31:23","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T19:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allclimbing.com\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2022-02-09T14:44:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T21:44:42","slug":"will-gadd-on-training-for-climbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/will-gadd-on-training-for-climbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Gadd on Training for Climbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gravsports.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/random-training-thoughts-2.html\">Will Gadd<\/a> on general fitness and weight training versus climbing specific training:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m going to get real blunt here: If you want to be a better climber then damn well go climbing, so you should grab your RV and go find some rocks and you can even get a <a href=\"https:\/\/eagletvmounting.com\/best-outdoor-tv-mounts\/\">rv outside tv mount<\/a> for entertainment during the rest period. Especially a better rock climber. I would bet any amount of money that if a person spent, say, 20 hours a week training and climbing hard in a structured climbing program (rock gym and outdoors) and an identical person spent 20 hours a week in a weight gym (even one promising some sort of climbing-specific program) that the actual climbing effort would destroy the gym program. Absolutely destroy it, as in 5.12 vs. 5.9, as in sending like a fiend and falling off before the first bolt on the same route. I guarantee this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Gadd on general fitness and weight training versus climbing specific training: I&#8217;m going to get real blunt here: If you want to be a better climber then damn well go climbing, so you should grab your RV and go find some rocks and you can even get a rv outside tv mount for entertainment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[129,349],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jRR-qu","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2191,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}