Listen as The Climbing Doctor interviews Steve Bechtel on all topics related to climbing and injuries. They go deep on training mistakes that are common with climbers, training exercises, power exercises for climbing performance, climbing assessments, inside elbow pain, and how to warm up the hands and fingers for climbing. This episode covers:

• Mistakes and errors that climbers make with training
• What are your biases of types of exercises that climbers should use to train
• How important is lower body power for climbing
• Assessments typically performed on climbers
• A discussion about Steve's medial epicondylitis
• Some great analogies on analysis paralysis and overtraining
• Warming up the hands and fingers
• Go-to exercises for climber's

Steve Bechtel's Bio: Steve is the founder of Climb Strong. A climber for more than 30 years, Steve has established over 300 new routes across the globe, from grade VI big wall free climbs to 25-foot sport routes on his home crags near Lander, Wyoming. An exercise science graduate of the University of Wyoming, Steve has been studying and experimenting with climbing training methods since his teens. After spending a few years as a full-time climber, Steve opened Elemental Performance + Fitness in 2002. Elemental is a full-service gym in Lander, but was built around the training needs of high-level climbers.

Website:

• https://www.climbstrong.com/
• Instagram: @climbstrong