Climbing warm up

Reviewer Efficient and specific — covers full body AND fingers in one short routine.

Moderator Built entirely around climbing movement patterns — flagging, drop-knee, high-step — plus joint rotations, arm prep and finger tendon glides. As climbing-specific as a warm-up gets, from a pro climber.

Reviewer Best finger warm-up explanation here - progressive, and explains the injury-prevention logic.

Moderator Entirely finger/wrist warm-up for climbing, presented by a PT who specializes in climbing injuries. Squarely on topic.

Reviewer Specific, credible, and actionable - exact times and reps, not vague advice.

Moderator This is precisely a climbing warm-up routine - soft tissue work into finger tendon glides into shoulder activation, specifically sequenced for going into a hangboard session. Exactly on topic.

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

Moderator A climbing warm-up start to finish, structured lower body to upper body to fingers, and every exercise is chosen for climbing rather than borrowed from a generic mobility flow. Exactly the sub-skill.

Reviewer Same good structure and reasoning as its companion clip.

Moderator Same three-part framework as the companion clip in this batch - pulse raiser, dynamic stretch, easy climbing. Squarely on-topic.

Reviewer Correct, well-structured, and explains the reasoning - solid.

Moderator Clean three-part structure - pulse raiser, dynamic stretch, easy climbing - entirely about how to warm up for climbing.

Reviewer Thorough and specific - hits all the areas that actually matter.

Moderator A full, specific climbing warm-up from someone who runs comp setting at a gym - ankles, shoulders, forearms/fingers, dead hangs, hips. Nothing off-topic.

Reviewer Best one in this batch — explains what to do and why, not just a list.

Moderator This is the full picture — cardio pulse raiser, joint-by-joint dynamic stretch, then a graded climbing progression from the easiest routes up. Textbook three-stage climbing warm-up, nothing tangential.

Reviewer Best structured warm-up explanation in this batch - has a real framework, not just a routine.

Moderator Whole video is a climbing warm-up framework (RAMP: raise, activate, mobilize, potentiate) with a concrete climbing-specific example routine. Squarely on topic.

Reviewer Well-sourced, well-reasoned, and specific to climbing movement patterns.

Moderator A complete, structured, full-body climbing warm-up routine from car to gym floor to fingerboard -- squarely on-topic throughout.

Reviewer Well-reasoned structure, not just a random exercise list.

Moderator The entire video is a climbing warm-up routine, structured into four explicit phases (activation, potentiation, movement, specificity) with a full exercise list. About as on-topic as this sub-skill gets.

Reviewer Explains the why behind each movement, not just the what.

Moderator Joint-by-joint warm-up sequence (fingers, wrists, elbows, thoracic spine, shoulders, hips) built specifically as pre-climbing movement prep -- entirely on-topic.

Reviewer Clean coaching cues, no fluff — you could run this exact routine tonight.

Moderator Five dynamic mobility drills built specifically for pre-climb prep, with a direct callout that static stretching before climbing is a bad idea. Squarely on topic.

Reviewer Less a routine, more a mindset — teaches you to read your own body instead of following a script blindly.

Moderator Entirely about warming up for a training session — purpose, philosophy, personal ritual, and a specific method (straight to the wall on jugs, no shoes, easy climbs, monitor how the body feels). Squarely on topic.

Reviewer Teaches you to build your OWN warm-up instead of just copying one - that's the useful bit.

Moderator Entirely about how to build a climbing warm-up - which areas to target and why, principle of specificity. Short but focused.

Reviewer Smart idea (use a baseline check to read your session) but light on specifics.

Moderator Specifically about warming up for a hard projecting session - finger recruitment testing, then dialing into project-specific grips/positions. On topic, just narrower scope (projecting context) than a general warm-up.

Reviewer Simple drill, real technique payoff - good one.

Moderator Directly tied to warm-up climbs - pause before every hold while you're warming up to force good positioning. On-topic and specific about when to use it.

Reviewer Three stages, one minute - and it's the only one here that insists on easy climbing before hard climbing.

Moderator One minute, entirely on how to warm up for climbing, and it gives the structure rather than one person's habits. Indoors or outdoors, three parts, done.

Reviewer Good practical progression, just doesn't go very deep.

Moderator Entirely about finger-specific warm-up for climbing -- curls, grip-position progression, one-arm hangs as a stretch tool. Tight, on-topic content.

Reviewer Legit sequence for anyone who's had finger niggles — just ignore the bit and follow the order.

Moderator Fingers are the single most injury-prone part of a climber's warm-up and this is entirely dedicated to them — warm water soak, tendon glides, grip work, banded finger curls before touching a hangboard. Squarely on-topic for climbing warm-up, just scoped to the hands.

Reviewer Solid mobility flow, just doesn't go much beyond generic yoga cues.

Moderator Framed explicitly as a pre-climbing warm-up flow, and every movement (shoulder circles, hip rotations, sun salutation with heels lifted for leg activation) is chosen with climbing in mind rather than being a generic yoga class.

Reviewer Well-taught yoga flow, easy to follow along.

Moderator Positioned as pre/post-session for climbers and does call out hip-opening as climbing-relevant, but the actual poses (cat-cow, downward dog, scapular work) are generic yoga, not climbing-specific movement prep. Useful adjacent mobility work, not purpose-built for climbing.

Reviewer Solid wrist and forearm block - but no pulse raiser and no easy climbing, so it's half a warm-up.

Moderator A follow-along warm-up aimed at climbers, and the emphasis on wrists, forearms, chest and hips is climbing-appropriate rather than random. It's a mobility flow with a climbing frame though, so it sits slightly to the side of a full climbing warm-up.

Reviewer Decent routine, but the presenter's own doubts about form give me pause.

Moderator Real personal warm-up routine covering cardio (jump rope), mobility, finger prep, and finger-board/campus-board work -- on-topic throughout, just presented casually.

Reviewer Comprehensive list, but generic and heavy on the jokes.

Moderator The exercise list itself (jumping jacks, trunk twists, arm/hip/neck circles, leg swings) is generic full-body dynamic warm-up, only one line ties it specifically to climbing (your Gastons will feel incredible). Framed as a climbing warm-up throughout, so it counts, just not very climbing-specific.

Reviewer Good mindset, but no actual techniques despite the title.

Moderator All about how to think about your warm-up - purposeful, not rushed, doubling as skill practice. Entirely on-topic, just conceptual.

Reviewer Good routine to watch and copy, but don't expect much explanation in the talking.

Moderator A full warm-up routine from an elite climber - hip openers, shoulder work, general mobility flow before climbing. On topic, just very demo-driven.

Reviewer Sound structure, would want to see it in action to rate it higher.

Moderator Description lays out an actual structured routine -- timed phases, general mobility items named specifically (wrist circles, shoulder rolls, hip swings, ankle mobility). That's squarely a climbing warm-up protocol, not just a mention of climbing.

Reviewer Tidy joint circles with real rep counts, but no pulse raiser, no finger prep, and it's not the expert routine the title claims.

Moderator It's a pre-climb routine and it stays on task - wrists, shoulders, neck, hips, ankles, knees. All warm-up. Loses a bit because it's only joint circles, so it's one component presented as the routine, and there's an off-topic detour about upper body strength.

Reviewer Wrist prep and the V0-to-V4 build-up are right; the two-mile run and the splits work before climbing are not.

Moderator Her actual pre-climb routine end to end, finishing with easy boulders on the wall, so it's on the sub-skill. Marked down slightly because a chunk of it is general fitness she admits she's piggybacking onto the warm-up slot rather than warm-up work as such.

Reviewer Feels like a teaser for another video, not the lesson itself.

Moderator On topic -- gives a concrete time estimate (20 min) for a warm-up session before climbing. Coming from a climber of Ondra's caliber, the topic match is squarely right.

Reviewer Risks teaching people to treat real training load as a warm-up.

Moderator Opens with genuine warm-up content (shoulder rotations, leg swings, feet-on-ground fingerboard hangs), but the bulk of the video is Eric Horst's fingerboard strength protocol (near-maximal 12-second hangs) and a dynamic coordination drill -- that's training programming, not warming up. Covers the sub-skill among other things, but the 'other things' dominate the runtime.

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

Moderator It's framed as a climbing warm-up and closes with 'finish your warm-up on the wall,' so it knows its place as pre-wall prep. But the routine itself — jumping jacks, trunk twists, arm circles — is a generic full-body dynamic warm-up. Nothing here is climbing-specific beyond one throwaway 'gastons' line.

Reviewer Neat window into an elite routine, but not something to copy - genuinely more a vlog than a teaching video.

Moderator This does cover his warm-up in real sequence (cardio, movement, dynamic moves, hangs, sloper pull-ups), but it's personal vlog narration that blends into attempting the actual V13 send, not really transferable instruction. He even says himself it's not the same for everyone.

Reviewer Good, concrete technique tips -- just remember it's not about physically warming up.

Moderator This is really a technique video (footwork/silent feet, center-of-gravity body positioning, climbing 'flow') that happens to be framed around using warm-up time productively -- it's not teaching how to physically warm up the body, it's teaching climbing movement technique. On-topic for the general theme, tangential to the specific sub-skill.

Reviewer Good point about the three parts of a finger warm-up, buried in a protocol most people shouldn't copy and a lot of flexing.

Moderator It is his pre-session routine, so it sits on the sub-skill, but it's really a strength protocol wearing a warm-up label - hangboard monos, weighted one-arm hangs, one-arm pull-ups at about 80 percent. On topic; not what most people mean by warming up.