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The big takeaway is not to “go like hell” on every effort. The aim of intervals is to take a slightly-better-than-you-are level of fitness, break it down into do-able pieces, and slowly build the ability. The goal is not to punish yourself, but to slowly coax the ability to do really hard stuff with a minimum of pain. Going too hard, for too long, too often leads to burnout. Leads to overreaching. Rarely leads to climbing the way you’d like when you’re five moves from the chains.
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If you are training for endurance, it's OK not to fall. But if you want to get better at rock climbing, you have got to do limit-level climbing in the gym. The more times you fail, the more your body will be delivered the message that it needs to improve.
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Bouldering is exactly the same as rock climbing, except that it's way harder. In an attempt to do this way harder sport, we often employ rock climbing training programs, yet they don't quite work. This article is intended to highlight these differences, provide an introduction to bouldering training, and suggest an alternative way of thinking.
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