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Fitness, Health, and Nutrition for the Outside Athlete Chalk It Up Grow Stronger, Go Longer By Clyde Soles
A COMPREHENSIVE weight-lifting routine will benefit you in three crucial ways: It will correct the strength imbalances that overdeveloped climbing muscles cause; replace fat with calorie-devouring muscle, making you leaner and, therefore, quicker; and, most important, strengthen your bones, tendons, and ligaments. "Tendinitis is the most common injury for climbers because they're often straining tendons before strengthening the surrounding muscles," says Hubbell. Not only will our strength program (see "The Iron Mountain," next page) target the Achilles' heels mentioned above; it will develop muscle endurance, ultimately allowing you to maintain control of your body's motor skills once fatigue has set in.
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