How much does your flexibility help you in climbing? Were you always flexible or is it something you started to train?

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Alexander Megos · Answer

How much does your flexibility help you in climbing and way, always flexible. Is that something you started training? I was always relatively flexible as a kid should nonetheless in the last 10-15 years. I've always worked on my flexibility usually in the evenings, just sitting down in the carpet while answering emails, and while working on the laptop was just stretching on the carpet and I did in the last still. In the last five years, I did become even more. Herbal, how much does it help for climbing? I think it makes up a huge part of performance and the thing is until you have until you're flexible won't even realize how much more options you have by being flexible. So, everybody is not flexible says I won't help that much, but then, when you become more flexible, you realize that you've got especially for feed so many more options, you have like more. He looks you can reach more photos to the left and Right? And you just in general find many more solutions. So therefore, I think flexibility is a huge part of performance and climbing

Rob Pizem · Answer

Is flexibility important? I would say yes for sure. There's two thoughts when it comes to flexibility being extremely flexible and being tight and rigid. So I was trained through my former coaches that there's an appropriate amount of flexibility and the reason is your muscles are elastic and the more flexible they get the less they can snap back into place. The less they can snap back into place means the less power you've got. So if they're really elastic you're going to be strong but not powerful. But if they're too rigid then you can't actually move properly and you rely on changing your technique to only being more powerful which is also a challenge. So there's a happy medium and flexibility and yes I spent time increasing my flexibility by adding stretches that I needed to provide the type of flexibility that I needed. Being flexible will prevent injury also but not too flexible.

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"How much does your flexibility help you in climbing? Were you always flexible or is it something you started to train?"