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What a great book. Absorb it. In it is nutirional information, wokout techniques and plans.
Very detailed. Great for beginniners and expeienced climbers alike or anyone who wants to improve their workout or overall fitness level. Awesome info.
Couldn't have asked for anything else to be included that wasn't already. I took this book to work took it with me anywhere I went I couldn't put it down. There is more information in here than just about climbing.
Buy it. Enjoy it.
I bought this book as a gift for my son who loves to climb. He told me this was a great resource and very informative. He was very pleased with the book - pay no attention to those reviewers who are rating this 1 star. Wonder how many mountains they have climbed.
"Climbing: Training for Peak Performance," has an honored place on my book shelves, nestled between Fred Beckey's "Cascade Alpine Guides" and The American Alpine Journal collections. Soles' writing is crisp and entertaining while imparting detailed information about effective training practices. He is obviously very knowledgeable about climbing, the challenges of the sport, and the best methods of training for those challenges. A "must-have" for any climber who wants to improve their fitness level specifically to improve their climbing.
Great book. Nice to get through all the nutritional information that really makes sense.If you're going to Climb, spend the time to Train. And the best way to making training work is to "Train Smarter, not Harder" and this book Climbing: Training for Peak Performance, does just thatClimbing: Training For Peak Performance by Clyde Soles
The information here is very basic. If you aspire to be yet another consumption driven wknd warrior who never climbs squat, this book will be your guide. For example, while he decides that interval training for running is dull and only for the hard core and twisted, the same concepts are in fact interesting when applied to weight lifting.
Instead, the author expands and publishes the results of his web searches into everything from herbal supplements to exercise gizmos and uneducated interpretations of exercise physiology. This book just doesn't contain the kind of wisdom and unique insight you'll get from someone who has risen to the top of their class. The book could have been edited to 20 pages.
In neither case does he actually get to the point about why such interval training is valuable, what it does to your body, and how it applies to the different areas of climbing.The biggest fault of the book lies in its mediocrity. These nuggets usually go uncited, as if the author somehow arrived at the conclusions and precise numbers (02 saturations for a population, for example) on his own. The author is also biased to a fault on most topics.
Clyde is far from the experience of, say, Mark Twight, Dale Goddard and Eric Horst, who have written much better books on the exact same subject matters. If you have higher goals for your climbing career, I would suggest other books.
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