Background The number of athletes engaged in climbing sports has risen. Specific physical
and psychological skills are required. The objective of this review was to determine factors …

Background Climbing is an intricate sport composed of various disciplines, holds, styles,
distances between holds, and levels of difficulty. In highly skilled climbers the potential for …

This study is a contribution to the discussion about the structure of performance of sport rock
climbers. Because of the complex and multifaceted nature of this sport, multivariate statistics …

Climbing performance relies to a great extent on the performance of the finger flexor
muscles. Only a few studies investigated this performance in top class climbers and only one …

Purpose: Rock climbing performance relies on many characteristics. Herein, the authors
identified the physical and physiological determinants of peak performance in rock climbing …

Level of ability within rock climbing is generally expressed in terms of a “best ascent”, rated
using various grading systems within the sport. The most common method of obtaining this …

Purpose: An advanced system for the assessment of climbing-specific performance was
developed and used to:(a) investigate the effect of arm fixation (AF) on construct validity …

The goal of this study was to (i) assess the physical and anthropometric differences between
three levels of climbers and (ii) predict climbing ability by using a multiple regression model …

Abstract Fryer, SM, Giles, D, Garrido Palomino, I, de la O Puerta, A, and España-Romero, V.
Hemodynamic and cardiorespiratory predictors of sport rock climbing performance. J …

Pre‐ascent climbing route visual inspection (route preview) has been suggested as a key
climbing performance parameter although its role has never been verified experimentally …