The Best Climbing Exercise You're Not Doing!

The scapular pull-up is a training essential in the Hörst gym! Keeping your shoulders healthy and developing proper movement patterns in pulling motions demands the ability to forcefully depress, rotate, and retract the scapula. Regular use of this isolation exercise will develop better kinesthetic awareness of your scapula position and enable you to climb harder and longer with good form, despite growing fatigue. Furthermore, being able to quickly and forcibly engage the lower trapezius and latissimus muscles will empower you to keep your scapula in proper position when campus training and lunging.
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[@TheRodiscumbag]

Wow Adam Ondra really young in this

[@LukeRockCimber]

lol.. young gun is a crusher!

[@Del1Dub]

the bob ross of climbing

[@johntuttle9544]

Careful, Eric has a strong pimp hand.

[@LukeRockCimber]

Haha this is a great comment!

[@EverydayOutdoor]

You're a legend Eric! Thanks for everything you do

[@verticalnetwork1]

Great Exercise! Thanks for sharing! Great Channel! Greetings Tom

[@boulderingnoobs8279]

Will defo give these a go at the gym!

[@200gregg]

good stuff, you just gained a new subscriber

[@CarlosARodriguezF]

good content, subscribed! I just started rock climbing, and need to lose weight in order to improve. have you thought about recording your podcast on video and putting it up on youtube?

[@clayton6095]

can you make a video on shoulder prehab! thanks for vid

[@jacobtoppen2787]

Eric showed me this last spring at the red. Since then, I have I have performed 3x3 each week and went from 1-2 on the campus rungs to 1-4-5. I also went from 5.12c to 5.13b max grade. I think this exercise is great! Keep the content coming!

[@MrLivecam]

what do you mean with 3x3?

[@booom615]

@@MrLivecam 3 sets snd 3 reps per set i guess

[@BenM]

5.12c to 5.13b in 1 seasom holy shit

[@johnbonjovi410]

yeah i did this and went from being a fat bald guy on the couch to sending the nose

[@Snowhead9408]

Nice little home training area

[@TF-uk2gn]

This is absolute gold

[@training4climbing]

Thanks!

[@ejl74]

This is some high level stuff people.

[@Maphis11]

Awesome video! About 1 year ago I had an injury in the finger tendon. Do you have any stretches you recommend for that? Or finger stretches in general. Thanks

[@AMM1998]

rice bucket

[@stevied9082]

That was kool

[@jared31337]

If you explained how this exercise related to specific climbing moves, I think people would get more out of it or be more motivated to try doing it. As it stands i can kind of guess how it might come into play, but that's it.

[@dickersnoodle1025]

if you climb it wont take any hard research to find out that while keeping your arms straight to minimize forearm and upper arm expenditure, you're using the scapular muscles in the shoulder and back to lever your body in any direction from the hold.

[@jtfeline]

nice belt mate

[@scarletgymfrk]

I was reading your book right now and I was looking on Google for the One-Arm Lunging exercise. Little did I know that I will find the channel of the writer of the book 🤭🤭 Imagine the surprise on my face when I saw the book in your hands and heard it's written by you 😅😅

[@training4climbing]

Cool! Hope you find it helpful!

[@vanillarpgsoundtracks]

Honestly, since starting this I can do sooo many more pullups now. I incorporate at least a few sets of these into every warmup and every training session.

[@training4climbing]

Awesome! Glad it worked for you!

[@AkosTothHotClub]

Do you hang on your hand dynamometer?

[@thispersonsdad7247]

Straight arm pullups

[@andersonboy620]

Cannot understand in wich way this can help for climbing

[@andrewjackson125]

Would you recommend doing these with added weight?

[@BrianKrienke]

How tall are your ceilings in the gym?

[@kaiiverson1769]

Are you the real Andrew Jackson 😯

[@largeformatlandscape]

Which was am I supposed to bend the bar?

[@adinwarner-rosen1221]

Like your bending it down and in toward center I believe

[@theghostofrickyricardo9975]

That kid is somehow the strongest person I've ever seen.

[@training4climbing]

Haha! Beast in the making!

[@bizmonkey007]

The harder variation looks like the start of a front lever.

[@training4climbing]

Is similar and these muscles are definitely used for a front lever.

[@kyleanderson7329]

It is one of the first front lever progressions

[@SnowmansApartment]

so basically, a baby front lever?

[@iliketospoonthings]

Could be a progression of front lever.

[@johnbonjovi410]

its like 1/20 of a pull up + 1/20 of a front lever but 20x the fun

[@ericvsthem]

rest 30s and repeat after... 10 pull-ups? extinction?

[@EQualizerddj]

Wait who doesn't do these?

[@glumb8968]

I did not. But now I do.

[@minhyeokkim2637]

beginners...like me!

[@manubishe]

Orange-shirt NPC - OP.

[@training4climbing]

Haha!

[@johnbonjovi410]

cuz regular pull ups don’t do the same thing and more lol