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Training for Mountaineering: Strength

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Can I Train to Climb Denali to Climb Rainier?

Post pandemic so many more people have treadmills or stairmasters and stuff in their house than they used to. This is also super good training for technical climbers I think that if I have someone who's more of a rock or an alpinist athlete I will program them this the gym based Emmy exercise. There's a lot of carryover from ice climbing mix climbing hard rock climbing with some of these motions because in their core strength in this especially in this lateral twisting way is so important in hard and steep technical climbing yeah yeah I feel like to ice climbing mix Climbing Denali, Rainier etc. great and I think that's really hopefulBecause so often we get the question you

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