Does stretching before climbing training hurt your performance?

Can static stretching exercises before climbing improve performance or are their effects even negative? Josh Hadley, Head of Flexibility Coaching at Lattice, is exploring exactly this controversial question about the influence of stretching on performance today.

The wisdom and nonsense of stretching before training is a subject of extensive debate not only among climbers, but also in the fitness community. In the video above, the training experts at Lattice not only answer the question of whether passive stretch before Training effectively harms climbing performance. They also give you concrete tips on how you can eliminate negative influences.

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