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When training in a gym for a specific sport, theres a piece of equipment for everything, cept this:
The upper body strength most needed for rock climbing is in the lats and the fingers. For lats, theres a lat pulldown machine. The exercise performed on this machine is like a chinup with several
possible variations. Besides these variations, what makes this better than a chinup for training is that you arent confined to lifting your own weight. You can train correctly with weights both heavier and lighter than your own.
For finger strength, theres a training board, a.k.a. finger board, a.k.a. hang board. I rarely see these at regular gyms, sometimes at climbing walls. On these, there are shallow finger slots of various dimensions to hang from, pull yourself up with, etc. However, like chinups, you have no weights with which to train appropriately, only your own weight.
The finger bar is a standard lat pulldown bar with a variety of matching finger slots built into both ends of the bar. Its two exercises in one, or you could do finger pulldowns as a separate exercise. Either way is an improvement.
Lat pulldown
http://www.myfit.ca...able=exercises&ID=6 [Shz, Aug 25 2005]
Training boards
http://www.metolius...ingboards-rungs.htm [Shz, Aug 25 2005]
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[Picturing Shz with fingers as wide as Unabubba's thighs.] |
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But not as furry, I hope. |
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<picturing UnaBubba with furry thighs as wide as Shz's fingers> Hahahahahha <pUwftawaSf> |
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Ah, the sharp sting of disappointment, and the yet unquenched thirst of all those fingers looking for a dark, air-conditioned place to get a drink... |
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I go to the gym to blast my flexor digiti minimi brevi. |
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why anybody would want to climb a mountain by their fingers is mystifying. |
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I can see more than one use for strong fingers :p |
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guitar too. maybe they can make finger-weights like small ankle-weights that you wear while you play on your strum hand. |
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