Elevate Your Climbing: Training Planner and Tracker
Level up your training and finally reach your climbing goals
Coaches and climbers finally have the all-in-one planner and progress tracker that helps you achieve better physical, mental and emotional performance while climbing!
Technique, Strength, and Mental Mastery
When it comes to the perfect climbing training planner, you need to both plan and track more than just your weightlifting and climbing grade records. That’s why we’ve created this planner to help you plan and track your technique, strength, and mental mastery.
Inside this Climbing Training Planner
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Goals
Climbing Grade
Technique Performance
Strength PRs
Mental Performance
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Training
Session Details
Drills/Exercise Plan
Mental Performance
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Evaluation
Strength PR Tracker
Climbing Grade Trends
Mental Mastery Trends
Drill Performance Trends
Before this planner, I was kind of just doing whatever I felt like at the gym with little to no real direction. Now, I feel like I’m making actual progress! I highly recommend it for any climber trying to get better at climbing.
Derrick W / Climber in Training
ELEVATE YOUR CLIMBING: TRAINING PLANNER AND TRACKER
Climbing Training
3 Keys to Improving Your Climbing
1. Technique
Climbing drills are a great way to develop your technique. This training planner enables you to plan what drill you’re doing in each session as well as track the grade of climbs and how many repetitions you complete.
2. Strength
Strength building is essential for climbers who want to tap into more challenging routes, which is why, in addition to planning out each exercise, we’ve made it easy with PR tracking as well as trend tracking for your strength gains.
3. Mental Mastery
Climbers who don’t train their mental game tend to get stuck and no longer progress. We created a section for evaluating your mental performance as well as a trend tracker so you can see improvement and identify opportunities for improvement.
Tracking your climbing training
How do you know what you’re doing is right?
One of the biggest challenges in climbing is staying motivated to keep going with your climbing plan, especially when you created the plan yourself. But how do you know if you’re on the right track?
Utilize Tracking for Progress and Opportunities
The best way to ensure you are doing the right thing in your training is to start each session with intention, track your progress, and complete evaluations after training. Then track your performance over time to identify patterns that inform whether adjustments are needed.
That’s why drills, strength exercises, and mental fortitude trackers are built into this planner.
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I recommend this training planner to all of my coaches so they can actually track climbers’ progress. Plus, this planner helps the climbers stay on track with their training.
Meg W.
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Climbing Program Manager
This Climbing Training Planner is Better Than Any Exercise Planner
Structure and Organization
This well-designed climbing training planner helps you structure your exercise, drills, rest days, and meal plans. This structure allows you to focus on the training yourselves rather than spending energy figuring out what to do next. It can also help in balancing different types of exercise and drills for a comprehensive training regimen.
Consistency
Consistency is crucial for progressing in any fitness journey, especially with climbing. This planner can help you stick to a schedule, increasing the likelihood of consistent workouts. This is especially useful for those who struggle to stick to a routine.
Goal Setting and Tracking
This workout planner can act as a tool for setting both short-term and long-term climbing goals. It allows you to break down large goals into smaller, more manageable milestones. Tracking your climbing also lets you see your progress over time, which can be a significant motivational booster.
Time Management
Time is often a limiting factor when it comes to sticking to a climbing routine. This planner helps you allocate specific slots for drills and exercise, making it more likely that you’ll manage your time effectively and get the climbing training session done.
Accountability
Writing down your drills and workouts in advance can create a sense of commitment and accountability. Some people find that they’re more likely to complete a session if it’s pre-planned and written down, similar to how a meeting scheduled in a work calendar is more likely to happen.
Adaptability
If you find that certain drills or exercises aren’t working, you can easily adapt and modify your planner. This adaptability is important for accommodating changes in your life or simply switching things up to keep your climbing sessions interesting.
Frequently Asked Questions
Aim to incorporate these drills into your climbing sessions 2-3 times a week. This frequency allows for consistent practice while also providing enough recovery time between sessions.
These drills are designed to cater to a wide range of skill levels. Each drill specifies the intended difficulty level, so beginners can start with the more basic drills and progressively work their way up as they become more comfortable and skilled.
Most drills can be performed with standard climbing gear. However, some specific drills may require additional equipment like a hangboard or resistance bands. Each drill’s description will list any special equipment needed.
There is a progress tracker at the back of the book where you can note the drill, what grade you completed the drill on, and the level of difficulty the completion of the drill. Over time, you should be able to see patterns of improvement.
If a drill feels too challenging, try modifying it to a simpler version or focusing on other drills that target similar skills but at a more manageable difficulty level. Progress at your own pace and listen to your body to avoid injury.
While these drills primarily focus on physical climbing techniques, some drills can indirectly help with mental aspects such as the fear of falling. By improving your technique and confidence on the wall, you may find that your fear of falling decreases over time.
Many of these drills can be done either solo or with a climbing partner. Working with a partner can provide motivation, feedback, and a safety check. However, solo drills can be just as effective, especially for focusing on personal development.
Absolutely. A proper warm-up is crucial before engaging in any climbing drills. Warming up helps prevent injury and ensures your muscles are ready for the physical demands of the drills.
SNEAK PEAK:
TRAINING SESSION PLAN AND EVALUATION
MAXIMIZE YOUR TRAINING SESSION
Maximize your training sessions by planning what you want to focus on, your goals, and the drills you need to complete.
During the session, you’ll track how challenging the drills are.
After the session, evaluate how everything went and use this time to consider your mental performance.
Copy the ratings for how you’re feeling and whether or not you accomplished your goal into the pattern tracker.
LONG TERM GOALS
LEVERAGE LONG-TERM FOCUS
The Climbing Pyramid is a visual way of tracking the climbs that we complete and shows us what grades we should be working on.
Other goals may be applicable such as hangboarding limits, your pull-up max, or even weight lifting personal records.
In case you have a specific training plan, a large note section is available to record that plan along with anything else that may be applicable to your long term success.
MONTH VIEW: GOALS AND PLANNING
PIVOT OBJECTIVES TO SEE RESULTS
A month is typically the minimum time recommended to train for specific goals.
At the beginning of each month, consider your performance and identify what you are going to focus on to become a better climber.
This month-view makes it easy to record goals for different aspects of your training along with recording a training plan and any other applicable notes.
SKILLS COMPETENCY TRACKING
ENSURE SKILL DEVELOPMENT
There is a multitude of skills, exercises, and drills that help climbers become better. But how do you ensure development?
Record the grade, reps, and how challenging it was to complete the drill (or skill, or exercise) each week.
At the end of the month, record your average and compare it to the previous month.
Take note of any skill that is especially challenging so you can adjust your training plan to accommodate.
PATTERN TRACKER
IDENTIFY OPPORTUNITIES EASIER
Long-term progress requires pivoting to make adjustments. But how do you know what pivot you should make or if it’s right to pivot? Patterns.
Tracking emotions in training sessions can reveal patterns that are crucial for growth. By consistently monitoring these ratings, climbers can identify what emotional responses are linked to success or goals.
This understanding enables them to make targeted adjustments in their approach, ultimately fostering a more effective and fulfilling journey toward their objectives.
MONTH-END REVIEW
FEEL BETTER AND GET MOTIVATED
At the end of each month, mark whether you reached your goals and note anything applicable to them. This can help you feel better about your climbing as well as help motivate you.
Record your common patterns and anything related to your competency tracking.
Complete your month-end review with notes reflecting on the month or aspirations for the next month.
Quick Start Guide
This is the fastest way to get started with this planner. Within five minutes, you’ll understand what you need to do to elevate your climbing with this planner.
Maximize Your Use
This is a comprehensive approach to utilizing this planner and tracker, emphasizing a multi-step process to plan, evaluate, and adjust your sessions to elevate your climbing.