ARC (aerobic restoration+capillarity) training for climbing
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ElGreco

Mountain climber
Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 13, 2017 - 08:44pm PT
Several climbing training books recommend ARC training as the basis for strength, power and power endurance. This makes sense. Even though climbing performance is not limited by cardiovascular output but local muscular endurance (in the forearms and upper body) instead, the same principles apply as in full-body sports. If you concentrate on strength and power alone, you are building them on a weaker base and ultimately limiting your performance.

Yet you rarely see people in gyms or outside running lap after lap, or traversing for long intervals. I'm giving it a go.

I would be interested in others' experience with ARC training for climbing. Do you incorporate it in your regime? Can you see a difference? Is it worth foregoing the fun stuff for a few weeks at a time at the start of your training cycle to build that base? Do your observations match the theory?
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