How to Maximize Your First Year of Climbing

Thank you for this video. I’m just getting started again after a 10-year hiatus and your first tip is spot on. I hit the gym last week for my first return climb. In 20 minutes I flashed a couple V2-3s, and a couple 5.9-10s and I was spent. Forearms were shot. Went back today after watching this video and stuck with V1s and a single V2. Rather than my arms being shot I actually felt good. Felt like I got some cardio, felt like I actually worked out. So thank you.

I've started in january and I can see how much I have improved during that time
I can use boulders as a warm up that were a project in the beginning of the year
Currently I'm working on a roof route (don't know if it is roof in english)
In June I fell off on the third move, now I'm only missing the last one

why is this guy naked

The chicken 😂

Pretty good video, but what’s gonnna make you a better climber is putting a T-shirt on 😊

Nice video and very impressive.

I really got into boulderin this year. Well made video. :) although am I always a bit confused with the different gradings all over the world

I watched this video roughly a year ago when I first started bouldering and I'm glad I did. You helped me get excited, set healthy expectations, and really set up the correct mindset for me to enjoy myself and progress the most. I always kept your words at the back of my mind - especially "Just get as much mileage as you can", and really helped me frame failure as just an excuse to climb more. I went from spending several sessions projecting a single V1, to now projecting V4s and V5s and I do feel that progress can be attributed in to small part to this video. Thank you. Genuinely.

Maximizing towards what goal? I feel like new climbers climb because they enjoy it, not because they want to become professionals. Just enjoy your first year. For some, this might be the only year they climb before moving on. Have fun, climb, and always aim up!

Pipe Works!!!

Good news! I can only climb v0 and can do 0 pull ups 😊

It's gonna be bad advice to ask people to do goblet squats with heavy weights when their upper body will be the limiting factor not their lower body.

Barbell squat is going to be the gold standard

that summertime saga intro...

Great video

I've now been climbing for about 6 months once a week. When I started there was a V4 overhang (roof?) boulder with big jugs and big moves, and I managed to do it about on my third session. Yesterday I did my first V7 boulder and have never been happier! Also it's interesting how lack of finger strength (I used to do a lot of pull-ups so if I can grab something I can pull a lot, but the grabbing part is still a problem 😅) has forced me to utilize my flexibility and be creative to solve problems, which has caused my technique to skyrocket. Now I just need to get my finger strength in order and start really progressing, any tips on how to do that with minimal risk for injury?

So today is my first climbing birthday, a whole year! I’m one, finally! It has been an awesome experience and it’s kind of wild to think an entire year has gone by, but here I am!

Your videos have been super helpful and very well put together, bravo and a big thank you! So far I’ve made it to V8, my goal was V10 but I’m still pretty stoked on my progress.

Honestly ive got no friends i wanted to go out and find a new hobby to get out the house, but i find it really hard to talk and make friends, even when i speak to someone i find it hard to become friends with someone anyone have any advice...

Surprised people who does rock climbers don't have killer lats

I can do 25 pulls ups and just have a handful of v5s

Razin ninja

Hey! This is my local gym. Awesome to see people having fun there

👍

can you put a shirt on please

Great advise, BUT I don’t agree with the x pull-ups for v-x. For many females pull-ups are very hard and I know many female climbers that are not able to do a pull-up but climb a lot harder than me

I see rubber chicken, I press like

Step 1.
Take your shirt of

Having friends to climb with is clearly aid.

I'm over here just trying to figure out how to do one pull-up, I spent an entire year on it pre-pandemic (doing around V3s i believe) and admittedly stopped trying when covid hit. I'm getting back into it and climbing. I'll try to do more milage from now on, though.

Great advice at the begining and I love how simple progression in climbing is.

Do 60lb kettle bells even exit 😂

Love you

Step 1. Go to gym and have fun. You don't need to worry about wearing a beanie, climbing shirtless, 5.13, starting an instagram channel of ridiculous dynos, or powerscreaming in year 1.

Put your shirt on. You'll gain credibility.

I just started climbing and we don’t have the V system in our gym. (Maybe it’s because I’m from Germany?) We just have seven or eight different colors, whose meaning is something like "very easy" or "difficult". I have now worked my way up to the third level which is supposed to be medium, but I can't do a single pull up. I also go to the “normal” gym to train this, but I think it is very difficult for women to achieve a pull up. Should I therefore stick to the easy routes for now? I think I will need at least a few more months before I can do my first pull-up, but I'd really like to climb more difficult routes before then. Is that possible? Or can I not compare my system with the V system anyway?

started a couple of weeks ago and love it but i don't think i can continue because i've developed some really bad arm pain out of nowhere

Pipe works in sac?

Mileage is hard, when my hands rips open every time i go

I can only go about once a week but still progressing and having fun after first month

dude why are you in a child section of a supermarket? damn creep

Being a new climber, I have found that the "soicial' aspect of going to my gym has helped me so much. I've met a some people at the gym who have seen me try to figure out a boulder and talk me though it and I accomplished it! Just confirms that I do have the strength, but maybe not the knowledge of how get through. Good video! Arms, legs, core.

any reasons are climbers are often shirtless? don't see any reason tbh

Me watching this pretending I havnt already been climbing for a decade

Excellent video. I am 60 now have not climbed in 6 years, but I would like to share a few things. Strong legs definitely helps in a big way, I used to be on a speed skating team in my 40’s. Strong grip training was also another advantage over upper body strength. Used to work in small climbing gym for 17 years that was built in a Racquetball court, 3 connected walls that allowed for traversing. We would set up traversing competitions to see how many times you could go back and forth from one end to the other end and the record was 65x in 2 hours. We were only about 2 feet off the ground and learned to relax our entire bodies so that we could keep going as long as possible which naturally built strong hand grip. Every time I visit a gym people only climb vertically straight up a short distance and that’s it, this to me is not enough, they should add traversing exercises in their training. Strong legs as well.

I’m a woman and can do 3 sets of 10-12 reps pull ups with the assister at 70 pds, can I continue to pull up with this weight, sets and reps and see progress climbing or should I decrease the weight every week to use more of my own strength with the assister?

Or should I not be using the assister at all? Which will be tough I can barely do one without the assister

I’m new and really excited about practicing and getting better. I still love going to a gym to lift, cardio, etc but want to incorporate climbing enough during the month where I can see progress. How often should I go while still keeping my routine at my regular gym?

Thanks so much for the advice. I've been reimmersing myself back into climbing (after a 5 year break; before this, i climbed for a few years) for about 3 months now. Nothing surprised me about your advice except getting more mileage, which I never gave much thought into. I'll definitely be doing more of this going forward

Awesome video! Sub'd:)

Is V6-7 beginner?😅

Went bouldering for the first time just before Christmas, I can't wait to get into it this year! This was a really good video. Love that you keep it so simple.