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Climbing warm up

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Warm fingers, shoulders and hips before hard climbing.

What coaches agree on

  • Build the warm-up in stages: raise your heart rate first, then mobilize the joints and muscles you'll use, then move onto the wall on easy holds before working up to harder moves.
  • Give your fingers their own dedicated warm-up, separate from the rest of your body — gentle movement and light grip work first, building up gradually before you hang or pull hard.
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  • There's no single fixed routine — adjust how long and how hard you warm up to how your body feels that day, and use it to gauge whether you're ready to push your limit.

Common mistakes

  • Skipping the warm-up entirely and going straight into hard climbing — coaches call this the single most common mistake, and the one most likely to end in injury.
  • Doing static, held stretches on cold fingers or muscles instead of moving them dynamically — coaches say this weakens the tissue and raises injury risk rather than preparing it.
Dynamic Climbing Warm-up
Intermediate

Dynamic Climbing Warm-up

Coach's take: Efficient and specific — covers full body AND fingers in one short routine.

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Climbing Warm Up (Super Quick)
Beginner

Climbing Warm Up (Super Quick)

Coach's take: Every exercise justified in climbing terms - rock-overs, bridging, frogging. That's the difference.

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How to warm up for climbing
Intermediate

How to warm up for climbing

Coach's take: Less a routine, more a mindset — teaches you to read your own body instead of following a script blindly.

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My Climbing Warm Up Routine
Beginner

My Climbing Warm Up Routine

Coach's take: Wrist prep and the V0-to-V4 build-up are right; the two-mile run and the splits work before climbing are not.

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Climbing Warm-Up CHEAT CODE 👌
Beginner

Climbing Warm-Up CHEAT CODE 👌

Coach's take: Follow-alongable, but skip it if you want fingers or climbing movement covered — it doesn't touch either.

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