Shoulder and elbow: the climbing injuries you're not watching
The shoulder is now the second most injured area in climbing and almost never gets logged. Why it hides, which sign gives it away and what prevention works.
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Climbing training, no fluff
Planning, metrics, injuries and athlete management. Practical guides written for climbing coaches who work with several athletes at once.
Rock climbing seasons in Europe: how they shape your planning
Siurana, Font, Céüse or Rodellar set your athlete's window better than any calendar. How to build a training year backwards from rock conditions.
Initial assessment of a climber: what to measure on day one
The screening questionnaire before taking on an athlete, which tests make a useful baseline, what not to test yet, and why protocol beats the number.
Quantifying training load in climbing: what to actually use
Climbing has no unit of training load. What each proxy captures (hours, sRPE, moves), why you need two axes, and the weekly minimum that survives February.
Climbing coaching software: what it actually has to do
Why general personal-training platforms fall short for climbing: prescription modes, finger metrics, injuries and sends. A checklist to run before you pay.
Coaching climbers remotely without losing control
How to coach climbers online: what can be trained without seeing them, how to ask for a useful video, and which metrics replace the coach’s eye.
Finger injuries in climbing: when to cut the load
How to spot finger overload in your athletes, when to reduce training load and how to build it back without repeating the injury. A practical guide for coaches.
How to coach 20 climbers without drowning in spreadsheets
What breaks when a climbing coach goes from 5 to 20 athletes, and how to organise plans, metrics, injuries and communication so the system holds up.
Finger strength testing with a dynamometer: real protocols
How to test finger strength for climbing with a dynamometer: max strength, critical force and fatigue resistance protocols, and how to read the numbers honestly.
How to plan a climbing season in mesocycles
A practical guide to structuring a climbing season into mesocycles: how to distribute load, when to train max finger strength and how to peak for your project.
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ClimbrLab is software for climbing coaches who work with several athletes. You plan sessions and cycles, your athletes log workouts and routes from their app, and you see their finger strength (with Tindeq), training load, injuries and progress in one dashboard, with chat built in. If there are several coaches, Team mode lets you share a library and split athletes between you.
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