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XC Training Lab Series Vol. 4

XC ProEvo Hangboard
In 2018 we have teamed up with Spit Magazine to bring you training beta to motivate and educate climbers about training tools, methods and offer some training inspiration for your own sessions. In this one, Volume 4, published in Spit Magazine n.7 June/July 2018 we highlight the hangboard, nigh ubiquitous in all gyms and many climbers' home. The Hangboard The concept of hanging from small edges, pockets and pinches is as old as training for elite rock climbing itself. Although the precise inventor of the modern hangboard as we know it is unknown, as early as the ‘80s legendary pioneers of hard climbing, the likes of John Bachar in America and Jerry Moffat and Wolfgang Güllich in Europe were screwing small pieces of wood onto...

XC Training Lab Series Vol. 3

Explore Climbing XC Pegboards detail
In 2018 we have teamed up with Spit Magazine to bring you training beta to motivate and educate climbers about training tools, methods and offer some training inspiration for your own sessions. In this one, Volume 3, published in Spit Magazine n.6 May/June 2018 we highlight the XC PegBoard. XC Pegboard In this edition of the Explore Training Series we move on to the pegboard, which at a glance is self explanatory: pull up on the pegs, remove one arm and insert the pegs ever higher on the board. So, not only does the pegboard work our major muscle groups used for lock offs, but it takes a considerable amount of coordination to effectively move upwards and across the board. You may remember these from...

XC Training Lab Series Vol. 2

In 2018 we have teamed up with Spit Magazine to bring you training beta - articles, photos and video clips to motivate and educate climbers about training tools, methods and offer some training inspiration for your own sessions. In this one, Volume 2, published in Spit Magazine n.5 March/April 2018 we highlight the Campus Board, or Pan Güllich board. Campus Board, Pan Güllich, what does that mean? The Campus Board, is named after Wolfgang Gullich who developed the first board in the early 1990s to train for his cutting edge climbs, and that is why we also call it the Pan Güllich board sometimes. Nowadays the campus board is nigh ubiquitous at all major gyms and for a good reason: it is a very simple...
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