🖐️ HOW TO TRAIN CONTACT STRENGTH 🖐️

Do you often find yourself grabbing a hold after a dynamic move, only to lose your grip and ping off? This might be because you have poor contact strength.
Contact strength refers to a climber’s ability to quickly apply their strength when they make contact with a hold. If you’re moving to a small hold dynamically, you will require more contact strength than moving slowly to a large hold.
Training contact strength is quite advanced so it isn’t recommended for athletes early in their climbing careers or those who don’t have a training history.
1. FINGER STRENGTH - It seems obvious to say, but if you want to develop your contact strength, you first need good finger strength. Training max hangs to develop strong fingers provides the foundation we need to train and improve our contact strength.
2. JUMP TO HOLD - This session is designed to increase your contact and pulling strength, and can be done on a campus board or bouldering wall. Stand on the ground below your hold and jump up and catch it, hold for 1-2 seconds and then release. Make sure you catch the hold with an engaged shoulder and slight bend at the elbow.
This is an extremely high intensity workout and requires your fingers and upper body to be full warmed up and ready for high intensity effort before beginning. We recommend a mixture of low volume fingerboarding and pull ups or a short bouldering session as a warm up for this workout out.
3. DYNAMIC OVERHANG & DEADPOINTING - Board climbing on blocs that require dynamic movements is a great and highly specific way to train contact strength.
4. CAMPUSING - If you’re just getting started with campusing, you’re going to want to start on bigger rungs, moving smaller distances. You can try starting with your feet on to reduce the load through your fingers.
All of these exercises are high intensity shouldn’t be performed if you are currently suffering from any injuries; you feel extremely fatigued from training or climbing; or you are unsure of any exercises.
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[@homemsapo]

Step 2 (jumping to campus holds) was a tip from a Fellow climber who crushes, after he Saw me struggling at the Moonboard. Since then I've added It to my campus and fingerboard routine, and the improve was considerable!

[@billking8843]

This is great for advanced climbers but another video for training contact strength for the other 99% would be great. The best suggestion I have heard so far is to get on a moonboard or kilterboard, take a starting position, then choose one hand as the one that will be moving and bump around to all the adjacent holds. Then swap over. Then keep both hands still and do the equivalent exercise with your feet placements.
Other suggestions appreciated. : )

[@ChrisMillsy]

might sound harsh but I think climbers who can't do these sorts of exercises should probably just focus on climbing more frequently and get more time on the wall/rock rather than specific drills