Strengthen your Grip for Climbing

Those of you that are rock climbers know how really important it is to have strong hands and forearms and endurance for hanging and supporting your weight through a days climb. The strength of your grip is a very important link in your climbing ability and your grip strength could possibly be the first to go after a short time of climbing due to lack of endurance.

If you start doing some strength training for your hands and forearms you will be much better able to hold on with less loss of endurance. Listed below are some of the many exercises you should use that work great for climbers.

Try doing push-ups on your finger tips. If this is difficult for you, try just holding yourself up in a push-up position on your finger tips for a few seconds at a time until you get stronger. This exercise will condition the muscles that are used to open and close the hands.

Hang from a pull-up bar by only your fingers. Just hang on until you absolutely can not hang on any more and your fingers slide off the bar. Try the same thing using only one hand then switch to the other hand. Hang by your finger tips on that narrow ledge of a door jam above a door and hang on as long as you can.

Do not forget to exercise the rest of the body, you should find a good whole body workout that you can do. Do pull-ups, this is one of the best upper body exercises you can do and it mimics climbing. Also work on your core strength which would be your mid section.

These are only an example of some of the exercises you can do for your forearms and hands. Another great and fun way to exercise the forearms and hands is to simply go out and climb as much as you can. This way you will work out your grip in the most realistic way.

Go to Gorilla Grip Strength for more info on how to improve your grip strength. Thanks For Reading