I Trained With ROCK CLIMB Holds Everyday for a Week
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Testing to see if the "grit" from using the climbing holds will grow my hands wrists and forearms bigger. I use these in a variety of exercises both conventional and not so much (weight lifting).
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rock climber here, your risk of injury is a lot higher when you train to failure on these holds and the balls. I'd suggest going a little bit less than failure. Also your fingernails hurt because you were holding the holds not quite optimally. there are a few types of grips to hold on the holds. Look those up and it wont hurt as bad :)
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Another climber here! "3 finger drag" is the best grip to not rip a pulley imo and oddly my strongest grip (not crimp or half crimp)... getting the pinky involved usually means a slight curling of the other 3 fingers which is fine but again, more curl is more pulley strain. I used to train on "pencil" skirt boards over the door with a gloss finish. Balance and control is more important than strength. Worth noting that you have 2 attachment points on the dingers, one on the tips and one on the middle bone of the finger so when you are on the tips, you are only using half one tendon to hold your weight. If you want a real climbers challenge, get some bits of wood and make yourself some different sized cracks... Crack climbing will make the entire hand grow... from paddles to ringlocks... Enjoy the pain! and don't forget to focus!!!
I would strongly recommend that you start your hand strength journey in a climbing gym on 5.8-5.11 climbs, concentrate on using your feet and high knees, open hips and core strength, and the mixed hand holds will bring you up to speed gently... your arms and hands are not for pulling you up the wall, they are for keeping you close to the wall so your legs can push you up.
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I would love to see a video of you actually trying rock climbing for a week.
I would also love to see a longer Video where you try rocklimbing for a month or longer
@@jesado I would also love to see an even longer Video where you try rockclimbing for a year or longer
Id love to see you do a little longer video of you rock climbing for 10 years @agario5161
@@p8rkerr I'd love to see a longer video of you actually trying rock climbing for the rest of your life
I coughed up my breakfast watching that ninja swing attempt at the beginning. 🤣
Love your content, man. You’re impressive (and thanks for giving us occasional laughs, too!)
hands: "wtf is goin on?! INFLAMMATION!"
pigmie: "thumb thicc :)"
bro lowk looks like wreck it ralph and built like him
Yeah I see it as well xD
People have been saying this for years. 😂Look at his older videos.
it seems like a lot of the comments have some misconceptions about how recent climbing science describes hangboards. Hangboards are not "injury factories" the same way deadlifts are not injury factories. obviously if you are a beginner and try to rip 500 pounds off the ground you are likely to injure yourself the same way you are likely to injure yourself jumping into a hangboard and doing things that are way too hard. You dont have to wait a year after starting climbing to use a hangboard you just have to think of it the same way you would think about any other exercise. Its insane to me that this misconception is still this prevalent. You just have to start slowly just like with any other exercise and just like any other exercise there is inherit risk. But yeah TLDR hangboards can be done at any time and can even be done before ever climbing. You are not going to automatically injure yourself just because you use a hangboard before a year into climbing. Just take it slow like everything else LOL
Totally agree with everything you said about hangboards. Although I think for normal beginners, if you have the resources and time, just climb a lot as much as your fingers. Given they start out working on technique, they will either end their session by failure of forearm muscles or tendons in the fingers. Of course if they dont have time or money to do more/longer sessions then SMART and SAFE hangboarding sessions are a way to get stronger fingers.
the gym bro to rock climbing pipeline
Yo, can you do a longer experiment. I understand that you gotta post video regularly, but some experiment need longer time for your body to adapt
clearly you didnt watch this video or dont watch the channel enough, half of his videos are longer experiments he just uploads the first week as the first part and then he does a month and so on, hell probably upload another one of these videos except a month or 60 days or something
How come ever since first saw you come years back round quarantine start or before you always have video released same day I question something that perfectly explains it thank you for saving me the time
IMPORTANT. I’m a seasoned climber and climbing instructor. After some time you will lose sensitivity in your fingertips which won’t come back. It’s not worth it unless you are passionate about climbing. There are many many times I wish I had more sensitivity in my fingertips. If you insist on this kind of training then you should stay away from crimps, which have the highest pressure on your fingertips. Stick to whole hand holds and try to distribute the pressure off your fingertips.
I’ve climbed consistently for 4 years and have done V9 on the moonboard and do a lot of hangboarding. My finger tips have not lost sensitivity. Maybe different physiology
My wife lost her sensitivity for me
Just wanted to chime in with my 2cents and say that I’ve been climbing for 8 years and don’t have the same experience as this, neither has anyone I’ve climbed with over the years.
Climbing consistently for a bit her, my fingers are chill but I dyno everything.
You're actually wrong. You will lose sensitivity but it will come back with time.
I know it looks cool to non climbers, but just put your chalk bag on the ground. Do you ever see gymnastics people wear a chalk bag around their waist?
The thumb is the strongest digit, but has the weakest joint. Use this knowledge wisely.
Hang boards are also know as "injury factory". For the average person, it takes about 6 months of climbing, getting used to holds, to build the finger and (micro) tendon strength necessary to confidently start training with hang boards. But once you get the proper training going, you get massive benefits and results, mostly for beginner and intermediate climbers. Those hand grippers Strengtheners are also a good way to maintain finger, wrist, elbow health. Health is your wealth, great video.
This idea that hangboards are super dangerous for relatively new climber is just false. A controlled exercise where you can control the load is going to be safer then climbing.
Hangboard injury is very real and can be hard to recover from, whether for starter or experienced climbers; be careful out there and climb on!
@@soletravelhangboards are much safer than climbing, the reason injuries occur is poor fatigue management. There's no good reason to say they're dangerous, only that you should remember the increased volume from the board when you start training with it and decrease some other source of finger fatigue. This is of course not the case for juvenile climbers because growth plate injuries are more likely with consistent strain on one joint angle, but for anyone with closed growth plates, your statement is misleading and incorrect.
below straight from metolius hangboard disclaimer. Make your own choices is the way.
"Warning All Training Board Users: Training on a hangboard carries risk of injury to fingers, arms, shoulders and the joints connecting them. Take every precaution to avoid damage to yourself."
@@soletravel you know an equivalent disclaimer comes with any other gym equipment, along with your car, food, clothes, and anything else that might cause injury. When you see the label on a plastic bag that says it should be kept stay from children because it can cause suffocation do you refuse to use one while a child is in your house? No, you just use caution. Disclaimers aren't very good sources. If you can show me a reliable study that says hangboards are universally dangerous for beginner climbers I'll believe you, but you clearly aren't knowledgeable enough to do that. A hangboard, like anything else in the gym, is a tool for training, so it's possible to overtrain on it. The risk of overtraining is not increased with a hangboard any more than with a dumbbell. Anyone can use it without injury as long as they don't exceed a reasonable amount of fatigue.
try next sleeping on the floor for a week or fasting for a week
I think the first one is called "being a teenager"
I've slept on the floor for the last 6 years I don't have a bed. There's not much point.
But yeah, fasting for a week would be a good video.
Yeah! He should try a japanese futon
He's bulking, fasting for a week would be terrible for him
I have actually been planning sleeping on the floor lol! I am in the middle of getting baseline sleep tracked first tho!
Idk if you're gonna see this or not, but i found something that I think you'd like to do. Its dragged sprints(I forgot what its actually called) its where you tie some sort of a parachute around you and try to run as fast possible. In the little short i saw, the guy shaved a full second off of his time which he says is really big for runners.
For someone who started climbing almost two years ago, you absolutely will notice an increase in strength, size and grip. A forearm workout the gym will never give you.
Been climbing for 3-4 years now and only really just started doing this type of training. Hang boards etc. Takes a LONG time to build up that finger/tendon strength. You obviously have a lot of that strength already there. For those just starting out, hang boards are definitely not recommended. Can easily lead to very bad finger injuries. Cool video!
what do you recommend to finger/tendon strength when starting out?
@@gdb1 start with some basic calisthetics
@@gdb1 If you're climbing? You just climb and progressively up your grade (like in a climbing or bouldering gym). As you progress, you'll start getting on more crimp holds and it will just build naturally. Arm strength definitely comes first, so a lot of new climbers find they can muscle up 'jug' holds on overhang before they can do basic crimps on vertical. Training wise, best place I found to start was simply hanging from a bar. If you can't hang, do it with your toes lightly touching the ground. Build up to a minute plus and eventually single arm hangs. This is all before I'd even go near a hang board which you should only be thinking about after at least 3-4 months of consistent climbing.
@@donmcvey Yes you're right. Ninja warrior for 5 years, climber 1 year. I totally agree that progression comes with time and consistency, and doing the right thing. Hanging on a bar is the perfect way to start for beginners not climbing or for intermediate climbers to get better at single arm hangs. A lot of times I see people getting injured from training to failure on finger boards and they're out for a while instead of not quite going to failure. Just a few tips I've found from my limited experience. I'll probably find out more soon
@@gdb1Climbing, in the beginning climbing is all you need. Slowly work your way up the grades, you only need to really start extra training once you hit a plateau.
If you plan on trying to track hand gains you should try volumetric measuring! Hand in a container of water and measure the amount it rises and compare before/after. Can use that to track % increase!
Your DIY and MacGyver ability is legendary. Great video bro
for your question about the importance of thumbs in rock climbing: for indoors at least, thumbs are usually only used when the hold needs to be pinched, otherwise it’s really there as an extra half a finger for grip. also wooden holds are usually preferred during training because it’s less painful and damages your skin less than plastic, a reason why you feel your skin isn’t as rough as it should’ve been is probably because you’ve been training for 7 days straight not letting the skin recover and develop into calluses
you should see how you would do rock climbing (or bouldering specificaly) now
the wood grips could be toughening you hands' skin. i think this because of a thing some ancient warriors and some martial artists would do which was rubbing sand and salt all over their bare skin to toughen it to protect against any potential attacks.
sand and salt keeps your hands dry and thus prevents a loose grip, this actually helps when you're grabbing someone or keeping hold of your sword in battle as your hands are dry and grip tightly
thumps can be important for specific types of holds in climbing like pinches. they can also engage in drags and as added anchor points when moving through holds. That's some of the ways we use the thumb region in climbing.
As a rock climber, the thumb is more or less only used in pinch grips and crack climbing. It's really great to have strong thumbs whenever you come across a pinch or if you need to use a hand jam, but more often than not, you rely on your four other fingers for most edges and your wrist stability for open handed positions.
The thumb does of course have a lot of its muscles in the hand and you might be able to notice gains a lot quicker in the thumb compared to the rest of the hand. The trouble with the hand and especially fingers is that it is mostly connective tissue; tendons, pulleys and ligaments; which takes years to develop both strength and size. This is to say that you would most likely not notice significant changes from week to week, but more realistically would be to see changes when comparing changes over multiple months.
you should of done a grip strength comparison for the before and after
13:11 is why Pigmie is SO DAMN OBSESSED with thickening his fingers.
You should definitely consult Magnus Midtbo, he is a famous rock climber and fellow TH-camr
Hey man, can you do some challenges for long than a week or a month? Like 3 months, 6 months? So something with more delayed gratification and bigger results on the longer span of time :) Might be hard, as there are so many ideas to fit in, but would be great to watch!
I just went rock climbing today, this stuff is harder than anything in the gym
You are amazing. Every Saturday. You’re amazing
thumb is very important for pinches and sometimes for keeping your hand position good for crimps and full crimping, so probably about 30% of climbing
Yes, a new rock climbing TH-camr!
Great vid! I would love to see a video with more wooden grips, and maybe you could incorporate rocks and other natural materials.
he did that already
For your get taller video I have an idea. It would theoretically be better if you did the stretch right before sleeping because if you get out of the chair and start walking this would reapply gravity force on your legs and it might compress them again. so if you did this before bed and then quickly got into bed and slept this would kinda "lock in" your progress because the bones will heal while you sleep in that elongated state. Also, you can do this stretch in a way easier way (but only for the tibia) by just sitting by your bed with your legs dangling (you need a tall bed or any other tall place you can sit on where your legs don't touch the ground) and use weights on your feet (maybe some type of ankle weight) that pull and stretch your tibias down and then after you're done stretching you take the weights off and without standing back up you get into bed and sleep normally.
8:40 fk dude don't wear chalkbag when you do conditioning :D that was nuts :D
Do the Rice bucket training for forearms
Idk why he reminds me of travis from "taxi driver " specially when he says " i got some crazy ideas in my head"
I love the “But you gotta focusss”
I got distracted. What'd you say?
I hate it
@@KarmasAB123 Lol
1:57 he didn’t get very far 🤣🤣🤣
I was looking for this 😂😂
You need to do these longer bro so we could actually see a good before and after
Yes
17:28 sorry, but did your thumbnail have a growth spurt or something XD love the videos bro have a good one
At least you used not a clickbait thumbnail this time. Thank you.
I think this is a really interesting idea that I’d like to see go further
I’ve done American ninja warrior for 7 years now and for the cannonballs (ball grips) the I hooks go in between the index and middle fingers. I noticed that and had to point it out before he or someone watching hurts themselves
Same though I’ve only done it for a year
pinch is better for climbing training
True but I don’t have much expertise on those holds. It just pained me to see the ninja warrior swing he tried with the wrong grip
Hey pigmie, are you in the Midwest? If so, what state? I am from illinois
the chalk drop with the bodyweight beast was the move for sure
climber here, the best way to grow your hands and forearms is to just go rock climbing and join our cult i mean community (no but really its so fun and actually a full body workout)
Not really arm wrestlers have the biggest hands and forearms
You should try using the oxyflow breath trainer its supposed to help with indurance and overall health
That first ball exercise had me anxious 😅
A lot of it is the training and climbing combined for big improvements
Wait, holy crap! I literally just went bouldering earlier this week for the first time in my life. I did a V3 on my first try, but couldn’t get a V4. I tried multiple times. That was on Monday. Today is Saturday and my forearms are still feeling it 🥲 I think I strained my left forearm flexors a bit.
As a climber the thumb is both important but not nearly as important as it seems you’re pointing out. Not having a thumb can definitely limit you from climbing many things but definitely isn’t a limiter or the primary mover of most climbs
Next, try to do ONE FULL Nordic Curl (hamstring exercise) after a month or more of practice
Bro your hands grow alot since i started watching you channel, my hands looks like girl hands , but much bigger( in lenght), i will start training my hands too
Great Video, Super
Focus!!!
Try for you next challenge to build a all rounder cardio
With all system aerobic and aenorobic
Yes sirrrr 🔥🔥🔥
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You really do look like Jim Carrey at times 😂 12:30
The thumbs are just as important as all the other fingers in rockclimbing
wow
When u grip try pushing you thumb down rather than in... Your grip strength will increase by 20-30%
rock climbing makes your forearms really sore, especially pinches, but its way more fun than just hang training and pull ups by yourself. boulders kind of feel like you are solving a puzzle. i would really recommend doing actual rock climbing in a gym its really fun!
Thanks Dad!
tht would be something for hannibal king
Wiping after a number two must have been hell
Your channel is really difficult to search. If i don't use the exact spelling, youtube shows videos of pygmie people.
Every time I think of rock climbing I think of Mission Impossible 2
He could just go rockclimbing, but what do I now :D
Can you do a video of you following Greg Doucette's diet for a month?
Buys an arcteryx chalk bag but doesn't want to spend money on a hangboard 😂
1:25 BRODIE ALMOST GOT KNOCKED OUT
Can you please take Moringa powder for 30 days?
First time I ever did rock climbing it was at a pool and some of the knobs would twist but I workout so I already have the strength
gripy gripy
-j cole
you should do a 30 day cut
Here is my strong hand - Scary movie :D
instead of buying all of this, go climb at a gym for a month and train using their stuff
Love your enthusiasm, and love your enthusiasm for hand training, but I have to say it: When you do grip exercises using those lower body movements -- and in particular, using ropes attached to a dumbbell or barbell -- you are asking your hips to handle a lot of unnecessary stability demands. Bro, you can tear your hip labrum and that's not an injury and recovery timeline you want to deal with. I speak from experience from doing something far less crazy and far less eyebrow raising. idk, maybe it's a life lesson where you have to get one of those nasty injuries before you learn, but there is something to be said about making smart bets with your fitness instead of these wilder, maverick bets.
Nice
@4:25 how I feel right payday weekend
Just put the fries in the bag bro😂
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Does anyone else think he looks like DJ from Roseanne decided to start training for a role as Superman?
You don't get adaptations so fast. The "gains" you made around the thumb padding were mainly inflamed skin. Hand size takes long to develop, and you'd notice gains in your forearm way sooner than in your hand (which has a lot more tendon rather than muscle). What you've done here is basically equivalent to me looking at my finger with PIP synovitis and say "hey, this finger looks bigger, GAINZ"
I ate breakfast for an entire morning, this is what happened...
2:10 same 😂
Bro got some big balls 😂
rock climber here the holds on your hang board have to size less than than the last joint of your fingers, otherwise this exercise will do nothing, cool to watch though
13:11 nice angle
Another challenge that needs a month at least to really see some improvements.
Ninja warrior swing
You should try rope climbing training for a week
Try tribulus terrestris
Seriously if you want to blow up your hands, wrists and forearms then you have to try armwrestling. First time I had a sparring session with a friend, I got the biggest pump of my life in my hands and forearms especially my thumbpad looked and felt like there's a balloon in it...and all that even though I always trained my hands and forearms through hand grippers and various excercises but nothing grew them like simple armwrestling training with a partner.
Bro with all these videos
Imagine "I tried the gym for a weak" nothing would change in a week man apart from mentality
hand board was ok but you should remake it with orizontal holes with different depths or external wooden sticks with different thikness
nice video, like evry time
Best AD for gorilla tape ngl