Category: The Hurt Locker (Injury)

Training Café #85 – Dealing with Injury (or ...

Posted by Eric Hörst | May 2, 2025 | The Hurt Locker (Injury), Training Cafe Vodcast

Treating “Climber’s Elbow” – Rehab and Preha...

Posted by Eric Hörst | Apr 18, 2025 | The Hurt Locker (Injury)

Training and Nutritional Influence on Connective T...

Posted by Eric Hörst | Jan 22, 2025 | Nutrition & Recovery, The Hurt Locker (Injury), Train Body

Finger Warm-Ups for Better Climbing (with Reduced ...

Posted by Lucie Hanes | Oct 7, 2024 | The Hurt Locker (Injury), Training Articles

6 Tips to Naturally Strengthen Your Immune System

Posted by Eric Hörst | Dec 11, 2023 | Basic Training, The Hurt Locker (Injury), Train Body

Podcast #92 – Research Update: Finger Injuri...

Posted by Eric Hörst | Oct 1, 2023 | Podcasts, The Hurt Locker (Injury)

Reducing Risk of Growth Plate Fractures in Youth Climbers

by Eric Hörst | Aug 3, 2023 | The Hurt Locker (Injury), Youth Training

Young climbers often bring more excitement to the table than their developing bodies can handle....

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Benefits of Supplemental Protein for Climbers

by Eric Hörst | May 11, 2023 | Nutrition & Recovery, The Hurt Locker (Injury)

If you’re serious about your climbing performance, then you must also be serious about...

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Training Cafe #70 – Training Around Injuries and Your Questions Answered!

by Lucie Hanes | Feb 9, 2023 | The Hurt Locker (Injury), Training Cafe Vodcast

In this episode of the Training Cafe, Coach Hörst talks about how you can continue training during...

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Youth Climbing Injuries (and Prevention)

by Eric Hörst | Nov 7, 2022 | The Hurt Locker (Injury), Training Articles, Youth Training

There’s no way to make climbing 100% safe for anyone. But youth climbers face their own set...

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Video: Coach Hörst Climbing Training Interview with Dr. Jared Vagy

by Eric Hörst | Mar 19, 2022 | The Hurt Locker (Injury), Train Body

Watch The Climbing Doctor, Jared Vagy, interview Eric Hörst on a wide range of important topics...

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Everything You Need To Know About Finger Tendons and Injury (Well, almost!)

by Eric Hörst | Mar 30, 2021 | Instructional Videos, The Hurt Locker (Injury)

Eric Hörst recently sat down for an interview with Sara at Send Edition climbing…to discuss...

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Rock Climbing Taping of Finger & Elbow Injuries

by Eric Hörst | Mar 1, 2021 | Instructional Videos, The Hurt Locker (Injury)

Volker Schoeffl M.D. literally wrote the book on climbing injuries…a must-own text titled...

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Video: Taking Care of Skin Splits – Jonathan Siegrist Style

by Eric Hörst | Feb 27, 2021 | Instructional Videos, The Hurt Locker (Injury)

Skin splits can make or break your session or even an entire climbing trip. Learn how pro climber...

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ACT eBook Free Download – Rehab and Prehab Exercise Book for Climbers

by Eric Hörst | Aug 1, 2020 | The Hurt Locker (Injury), Train Body

Adjunct Compensatory Training for Climbers — FREE eBook download! A few of my German climbing...

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Must-Do Rotator Cuff Training for Climbers (in 10 Minutes!)

by Eric Hörst | Nov 1, 2019 | The Hurt Locker (Injury), Train Body, Training Articles, Training Videos

Learn five simple, yet effective exercises to strengthen your rotator cuff! Climbing requires...

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Podcast #40: Blood Flow Restriction Training for Climbers

by Eric Hörst | Oct 8, 2019 | Podcasts, The Hurt Locker (Injury)

In a departure from my usual lecture style podcasts, I’m happy to feature a guest on this...

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Video: Geek Climber Q&A on Finger A2 Pulley Injury Recovery

by Eric Hörst | Sep 17, 2019 | Nutrition & Recovery, The Hurt Locker (Injury), Training Videos

Finger pulley tweaks are the most common climbing injury. No one is immune—not beginner,...

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Climbing & training tips from climbing coach and best-selling author Eric Hörst. #TrainSmarter #ClimbStronger #BoulderBetter
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#Repost @yannick_flohe . All climbers see crazy st

#Repost @yannick_flohe . All climbers see crazy strength displays like this and wonder how to take a step towards getting there themselves. Surely it will take time (or a lifetime) to do this, but you’ll have to start on the hangboard. Everyone wants stronger fingers but few understands just how to do it right. Learn four essential fingerboard training protocols to improve your climbing strength and endurance from the article found in the link in bio!

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My fat ass learning how to hang the @beastmakers 6mm edges 🫨 New Year’s resolution: strong fingers 🤞
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#training#lifting#fitness#beastmaker#fingerboard#motivation#climbing#bouldering#trainingforclimbing

As many aspire to maximize their potential, squeez

As many aspire to maximize their potential, squeeze out every juice of performance, you may wonder what makes the pros so capable at doing this same thing. As you may expect, there are a handful of characteristics and tactics that make the pros, the pros… and you can adopt some yourself. Click the link in bio to hear about tapping into your potential and being like the best in a past but still pertinent episode of the training for climbing podcast!
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#climbing #training #trainingforclimbing

#Repost @thestruggleclimbingshow . Everyone has h

#Repost @thestruggleclimbingshow
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Everyone has heard about building their pyramid, but what does that actually look like on an person to person basis, and how do you balance this with projecting?
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In the recent Road to the Pyramid chat with Coach @eric_horst, I was reminded of the importance of aerobic training even in the “off season”... the lack of which I’ve definitely been feeling as I try longer routes this spring. For more of Eric’s sound wisdom and specific training protocols for route-climbing season, check out the full episode on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, or wherever your pod. Bonus stuff over on Patreon!

Have you checked in with yourself lately about you

Have you checked in with yourself lately about your goals in training and climbing? What about in your life beyond climbing? What’s your destination? How will you get there?
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These questions get answered by Coach Hörst in a quick article and video. Learn about the process of success and how you can fit this formula into your goal! Click the link in Bio to read about it.
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#climbing #training #trainingforclimbing

This is a problem everyone encounters. These tacti

This is a problem everyone encounters. These tactics can only be learned through trial and may be extremely impactful towards your performance. Although the weather is getting warmer out, it is never too late to stay on top of your high end performance strategies. Check it out more in depth in the link in bio.
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#trainingforclimbing #climbing #training

Training Inspo with @alexandermegos 💪🏼 30

Training Inspo with @alexandermegos 💪🏼

30 one arm pull ups:
• 1 rep with +15kg
• 2 reps with +9kg
• 3 reps with +6kg
• 4 reps with +3kg
• 5 reps with +0kg
(+100 two arm pull ups in 10min later on).

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Warming up is easy when you know how! Here’s 3 s

Warming up is easy when you know how! Here’s 3 steps to a quick and easy finger warm up at the crag! 🤌⁣
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1️⃣ Repeater pulls⁣
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Grab a sling and a lifting edge, like the MXEdge Lift or Mini Bar.⁣
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Hook the sling around your foot and complete several reps and sets on each arm, gradually building up the force on each set. ⁣
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The max effort on a single pull should be around 6/10 on the last set. ⁣
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2️⃣ Max hang pulls⁣
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This isn’t actually max effort, but a build-up from a 6/10 effort to an 8/10 effort on each pull. ⁣
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Pull on the same edge in your chosen grip for around 10 seconds and complete a few sets on each arm with more rest between each set. ⁣
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3️⃣ Get Specific ⁣
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Before pulling on, check out the type of holds you will be using on your climb. You can use the same protocol as in step 2 but with different grip types. ⁣
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If there are lots of small crimps on your chosen climb, complete some pulls in a crimp position using a smaller edge.⁣
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If there are lots of pockets on your climb complete the same pulls using 1 or 2 fingers on the hold. ⁣
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➡️ Need a warm-up tool for the season check out the Mx edge on our website for our audience in the USA! @physivantage is the USA based distributor. Link in our bio

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Almost every climber has some interaction with int

Almost every climber has some interaction with interior or exterior forearm pain. A key to mitigating, or preventing this can be deliberate training if the forearm antagonist muscles to counterbalance the usual muscles overused in climbing training. So if you are curious how to train the climbing antagonist muscles in your forearms? Here’s a brief biomechanical overview of the muscle interaction in the forearm. Click the link in bio to watch the entire video for antagonist training on the TFC YouTube channel!

🚨NEW PODCAST DROPPED🚨 Training For Climbing

🚨NEW PODCAST DROPPED🚨
Training For Climbing Podcast with Eric Horst and Thomas Cunningham

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- Tips for Optimizing Climbing Training, Podcast #116 -

Lean into this fast-paced podcast with veteran climber and function medicine specialist, Dr. Thomas Cunningham. Learn how to train more effectively, reduce injury risk, pursue your genetic potential in climbing, and much more in this content-rich episode of the Training For Climbing podcast.

This past December, I recorded an interesting conversation with my friend, Dr. Thomas Cunningham. Thomas is a veteran climber (with sends up to 5.14c), husband and father of three, and a medical doctor and researcher.

In recent years, Thomas and I have had a number of lively discussions on topics such as functional medicine, health optimization, effective training for middle-aged climbers, and more. It dawned on me one day: Why not record our conversations and release them as a podcast or video! Today, I share with you the first in, I hope, a series of performance-focused conversations between the two of us.

>>You can listen in and/or watch this interview on the T4C podcast (Apple podcasts and Spotify) or the T4C YouTube video.

👉Link in Our Bio!

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