Slow Flow on the Wall

Hey Climbers! This week’s blog is a helpful training tip for all of you interested in getting sick strong.

Once you’ve sent a project, it doesn’t have to end there. An excellent training tool is to revisit problems and routes you’ve already sent and climb them slow and controlled. The easier a previous project is for you, the easier your next project will be. The easier V2 is, the easier V3 will be and so on.

Get on your route/problem of choice, and keep a steady, CONSISTENT, slow pace the whole time, using no dynamic movement. Having to lock off and press through to reach holds you once had to dead point or throw for will fill in your functional range of motion and increase your static strength on future problems where holds are just as far apart put not positive enough to toss to.

You may be surprised to find that with this new technique, you can’t send things you previously did, and that’s good. That’s the idea. Once you can resend previous limits in this new slow pace, you’ll be able to incorporate it into your next endeavor.

In addition to physical prowess, this technique will help you improve your mental focus and keep yourself more controlled. Having a good understanding of “economy of motion” (using the fewest number of movements possible to effectively conserve energy) is key to pushing into the harder levels of 5.12 and V5.

And as always, have fun with it! In no time you’ll see this helpful tip increasing your climbing ability.

Climb Hard

- Red.