I feel like I’m at a good place with my climbing, I know my weakness is mostly the mental side of things but I think a little more confidence in my body and strength would help overall. After reading and researching all different kinds of training programmes, I came to the realisation that even though I want to train and kick it up a notch, I don’t want it to feel like a chore or heavy gym session. After some more reading it seems like yoga is an obvious but gentler choice to help improve my climbing skills and for some mental gains. It’s also a buildable practice so I can work through at my own pace.
My plan is to do a 20 min yoga session 2- 3 times a week at home, in between climbing days. I’m really excited to see how I can improve, and I plan to keep track and check in monthly with an update about how it’s all going.
Naturally I headed over to YouTube and sought out some beginner yoga stuff. The video below is what I’m going to be working and eventually I hope to build my own routine.
Wish me luck!
A Girl Who Climbs 
10/12/2015 at 10:33
Have you thought about Pilates too? Yoga is better for flexibility but
Pilates is great for strengthening and body realignment (which helps to recruit the muscles you already have more efficiently)
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11/12/2015 at 17:54
I’ll definitely check Pilates out too then, thanks!
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20/12/2015 at 18:46
I use a bunch of Sarah Beth’s videos too! She creates some really good videos, without a lot of the “extra” stuff/ideals a lot of the YouTube videos push. Have you found any other good YouTube channels?
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20/12/2015 at 22:47
Yeah I really like her videos, I’ve not looked much further really because her channel covers everything I was looking for! If you do find any let me know 🙂
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