Rock Climbing Training - Endurance

The harder your workout is, the quicker you will deplete your muscle glycogen. Once your glycogen is decreased, you will feel exhausted and I can tell you - this is not a comfortable feeling! So if you want to climb higher or longer without being too exhausted or pumped, you should increase or improve your Endurance. Muscle and fitness go hand in hand. Understanding how muscles work will help you target specific types of training to achieve your fitness goals. For more information, kindly refer to our How Muscles Work section.

To improve your Endurance, you should continuously do low resistance exercises. This will promote muscle endurance. To gain maximum muscle endurance, you must exercise for close to two hours in order to deplete your muscles' glycogen as well as to stimulate new blood vessel formation and maximum aerobic-enzyme development. Likewise, you can gain considerable endurance with shorter periods of exercise, particularly if you intensify the exercise. You need to exercise at less than maximum strength for at least 20 minutes, three times a week to see a benefit.

Goal	Type of Exercise
Endurance	Gym Exercise Increase the repetitions using low weight.

While doing your Endurance training, it should not be forgotten to perform adequate Warm-up and Stretching. Afterwards, perform some Cooling Down exercises.

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