What should you pay attention to when rock climbing?

Rock climbing is a sport that has some risks, but it can be done within safe limits. Qualified equipment. Since rock climbing is a sport with a certain degree of danger, people have been continuously developing and producing various equipment and instruments to provide safety guarantees for climbers and facilitate the development of this sport since the day this sport was born. Rock climbing equipment is divided into two categories: protective and auxiliary. Let’s take a look at what we should pay attention to when rock climbing.

1. When you train intensively but don't make any progress, you should review whether your training sessions are too frequent and whether you start the next training session without giving your body enough time to recover. In this way, the climber's physical fitness will gradually decline with each training session. The correct training method should be to start the next training session after the body has recovered from the previous training and achieved super compensation (about 24 to 36 hours), so that physical fitness can continue to improve steadily. In addition, the amount of training must be gradually increased in line with the improvement of physical fitness in order to give the body sufficient stimulation and enable long-term progress in physical fitness instead of stagnation in a plateau period.

2. When training, the amount of food you eat should take into account the needs of your body, especially sufficient carbohydrates to maintain glycogen storage in your muscles. During intense training, if you consume less carbohydrates, it will lead to low muscle glycogen content. When muscle glycogen content is low, it is difficult to undergo regular training. After daily training, you should replenish energy as soon as possible because the time to replenish energy during training is very limited, and the time when muscles have the strongest ability to restore glycogen is the first hour after exercise training (you should eat foods containing carbohydrates with a high glycemic index: such as sports drinks, baked potatoes, honey, white rice, and white bread).

3. Arrange proper meal times. Try to replenish your food during training and do not give up the opportunity to eat due to inconvenience. If you go to training without eating breakfast, you should eat high-carbohydrate foods (such as fruits and whole-wheat bread) around 9 or 10 am after training. If you train in the evening, you should eat something around 3 or 4 pm, and then have your main meal after training.

4. As training gives you strength, you will usually feel your muscles gradually tightening. A stiff body will limit your ability to move and offset the effects of strength gains. Therefore, in the process of physical training, do not ignore the importance of flexibility training. The so-called "flexibility" refers to the range of movement of the limbs near the joints. For rock climbers, good flexibility is not only helpful for movements such as raising your feet high or crossing your arms, but also allows you to keep your center of gravity close to the rock wall to save energy, or lower your center of gravity to change the direction of force applied by your hand points, and avoid sports injuries.

The above briefly introduces what you should pay attention to when rock climbing. Many people like rock climbing because it is a challenging and fulfilling sport. No matter what kind of sport it is, we need to experience it personally to gain something. A healthy body is a prerequisite for us to do anything, and we need to protect our own bodies.