Thread: Learning how to climb.... With nothing to climb
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Old 04-18-13 | 06:41 AM
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Also living in Florida, and having done a number of races and events with serious climbing, I put together my take on it here:

http://everestchallengex2.blogspot.c...t-landers.html

Basically, climbing is a mtter of sustained power to weight ratio. So, you need to train to raise your sustained power output, which means lots of long intervals, such as 2x20.
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