Training For Mountaineering: The Benefits Of Strength Training

Strength training has traditionally been overlooked, underutilised and misapplied in the endurance world. And mountaineering is no different. This video will explore the major benefits that strength training can provide to mountaineers, as well as the science to back it up.

Traditionally mountaineers love endurance training. Whether it is running, hiking, cycling or some other aerobic activity, this makes up a huge portion of a mountaineers training, which is absolutely fair enough. The development of aerobic capacity is the single most important aspect of performance a mountaineer needs to succeed on the mountain.  

However, it is an unfortunate fact that many mountaineers take this too far. And train their aerobic activity to the exclusion of just about anything else. This approach is undoubtedly a mistake because there are a vast amount of potential benefits for other types of training, such as strength and resistance training, which a mountaineer would be crazy to ignore.

Ranging from injury prevention, to improved performance (both in training and while on the mountain) as well to some underappreciated mental aspects. It really is an essential part of any serious mountaineers preparation.

This video explores a few of the indisputable benefits which strength training can give the aspiring mountaineer.

You will learn:

• The single most important reason why strength training is essential for absolutely every mountaineer (plus a HUGE body of scientific evidence to prove this)
• Three reasons how strength training can improve exercise performance while mountaineering (two of these are often overlooked in the adventure community)
• How strength training can potentially contribute to reducing a major risk factor of altitude sickness
• One often underappreciated mental benefit of strength training (which is incredibly important when on the mountain)
• Two common mistakes mountaineers make when applying strength training into their preparations
• The indisputable best approach to applying strength training for mountaineers
  
  

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