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• Climbing Warm-Up: Shoulders and Fingers (By Collin McGee) - Certified physical trainer Collin McGee shows us four ways to warm up our shoulders and fingers for climbing: using a hang-bar, a hangboard, the climbing wall, and at the crag. In this informative article, article Collin explains the why's and how's to do a warm up to help prevent injury. 
• Effective Training: Are You Getting Stronger or Just Getting Tired? (By Collin McGee) - Professional physical trainer Collin McGee shares tips on how to build strength for climbing and avoid pitfalls.
  
• ​Improving Hip Mobility and Strength (By Collin McGee) - Hip mobility and strength are critical for high steps in climbing. Physical trainer Collin McGee shares helpful information about how to improve your high-step game. ​
• Rock Climber Mobility (By Collin McGee, CSCS, FRCms) - ​​How does our range of motion (ROM) relate to potential injuries in climbing? How might a "canned" online training session become injurious to us if we don't know our true range of motion? How do we best train when considering range of motion - both to prevent injury and get stronger?  Climbing physical trainer Collin McGee walks us through these important climbing training concepts - ones that are often ignored to our own peril. ​ 
• ​Train the Mind. Mental Toughness Tips for Quarantraining (By Brianna Boney) - ​Behavior change expert Brianna Boney provides clear, helpful tips on how to build mental toughness during CoVID quarantine (that can be applied to climbing or life beyond) .