How often do you utilize downclimbing as an exercise? Do you find it very beneficial?
In what ways do you believe downclimbing helps a climber improve?
Do you think that downclimbing somehow increases one's ability to climb up? If so, why?
DOWNCLIMBING: Benefits?
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Posted 10 months ago #
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Down climbing has many benefits and can be fit in any time you are doing endurance based workouts, or anything that looks down climbable. In fact, I had one friend that could only climb once a week, and would down climb 15 pitches in addition to her normal 15 pitches up (not necessarily of the same difficulty, it is just that with so little time she liked to pack the most punch into her workout). The benefits are in the muscle fibers that down climbing hits, often time upper body engaging, followed by lower body, and the amount of control that it requires to make that lowering motion. In climbing up we can engage momentum as a key ingredient, but when down climbing, the body has to rely more on body tension and harnessing control muscles to stay in more of a controlled static state. That said, I would down climb any route that I was toproping, or any easier boulder problem.
I feel like I've started babbling, but I hope this helps.Posted 9 months ago #
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