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T Position on TRX
TRAINING FOR CLIMBING
ON OPERATIONS
Ollie Torr, Lattice Training
Even with limited facilities, training for climbing can be completed more effectively than you may assume.
When you throw in a reliable routine and facilities that you have become accustomed to, this effectiveness only increases. With this in mind, being deployed on operations is often as good a time as any to complete a solid foundation of training, leaving you prepared for rock when you return.
FACILITIES
I acknowledge that, for some deployed personnel, time and energy available to complete additional training may be zero or close to zero. However, for the purpose of this article I’ve assumed access to the kind of facilities that many of you will have experienced on recent operations. This includes a pull up bar, gym kit (e.g. floor mat, free-weights, TheraBands, power bags, kettle bells etc) and potentially the
opportunity to bring some limited personal equipment such as a pinch blocks, rock rings or even a portable fingerboard.
There are a number of different profile markers that predict climbing performance, so let’s take a look at these and how we can train these markers using the facilities we have available to us.
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