Stuff you might like to check out:

Hey, I’m starting outdoor bouldering and found the Ocún Paddy Sundance for €135. Is it a good first pad? Planning to climb in Avalonia, Germany. Any thoughts?

Hi, does anyone have any recommendations for novels that feature bouldering or even a character who boulders? I recently got into bouldering and would like to organize a climb for my book club at my gym, but we usually like to read something related to the activity.

Any leads would be appreciated. Thank you!

Looking for charity's that are involved and helpful in the space and have a good reputation among climbers.

Just moved to Omaha, never climbed on a tension board, barely touched a kilter. The gym here (MW Climb) has a tension board 2 wood plastic 12x12 set at 40. End of my two hour bouldering session wondered over there downloaded the app and set up the custom board. Did a (easy grade.. my original post was removed because I had a grade in it) memorizing the holds first try.. (I think I used a wrong foothold) so ended up doing it three more times getting all the correct holds nailed.

To the question. What is your experience with how easiest three grades on tension rate vs gym climbs, kilter, and outdoors? Seemed harder than kilter for sure, probably due to the memorizing holds etc, no lights.

Any tips for moving forward? I plan on dedicating one session a week to tension after some warmup on normal boulders going forward, seems like a good way to increase finger strength and (drum roll) core/tension.

Many of us (me included) have been surprised by the number of 40+ in this sub from recent discussions.

As age is an important factor in sport, we may benefit from having a good understanding of the age distribution in r/bouldering.

Note: Reddit’s poll feature only allow 6 answers. If you are 70+ maybe choose 60-69. Also, if you are still sending routes at this age: congrats!

View Poll

This new set has been up about a week or so and I haven't seen many people trying this problem. Gave it a try and I believe I found a quite unconventional beta. I feel proud of sticking the move to the big hold on the black volume. by swimming the right leg out and up to the foot hold. What would be your proposed 'normal' beta for this problem?

Basically the title, how often do yall climb each week and do you do any other sort of training(strength training for climbing, board climbing, etc)

I was talking to one of my coworkers today about rock climbing. She goes to a different climbing gym than I do and we were talking about trading buddy passes.

Anyway she said that she usually doesn’t like going to the gym I climb at because it has a very bro vibe and people are cocky at it. She gets discouraged and thinks it’s rude when someone walks up and flashes her project and just walks away.

That made me realize that I probably do this all the time. My typical gym sesh is going and climbing like 20-30 easier problems for me before working on my actual projects. I realize I probably flash a lot of peoples stuff and just walk away

Do you get discouraged when someone does that to you?

To the folks who have experience with routines, combining heavy lifting and bouldering/climbing:

I am a former rugby player, playing 17 seasons on a pretty decent amateur level. So lifting was always part of the game, usually split in hypertrophy (after the season), strength (before a season) and power (during the season), 3-4 times a week.

After retiring I want to keep the fitness level high, but also focus more on climbing/bouldering, which I occasionally did with friends and family.

So I guess 3-4 times lifting and 2 times climbing a week and I am still unsure what a good routine for that would look like. I want to make it very clear, that I don't want to lift explicitly FOR climbing, I love my fridge mode build and my treetrunk legs.

At the moment I do a 4 days split, in a sort of 5/3/1 style. And that is maybe a good plan to keep, because it focuses more on the upper body antagonists of climbing, shoulders and chest, then let's say a push/pull/legs. Also it's easier to fit 2 days of climbing into a 4 split, regarding the fatigue of pull muscles.

Then again 6 days heavy work for the muscles (including the climbing) is a lot of volume and maybe a 3 days split, like push/pull/legs would be more sensible.

Last idea that I had was a full body routine, 3 days a week, while keeping 2 of the workouts more or less free of pull exercises.

I I am 1,83 and weigh 90 kg, somewhat intermediate in strength (15 pull-ups, 70, 120, 160, 200 kg in the big four) but with good muscle endurance and power. At the moment finger/grip strength is BY FAR my limiting factor.

Any ideas or pointers? Am I overthinking this stuff? 😅