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                                        Breaking Beta | Can Beta-Alanine Supplementation Help You Send Your Sport Climbing Project?
                                        Breaking Beta, Podcasts, Extensive Endurance, Best Of, Intensive Endurance Kris Hampton 9/14/22 Breaking Beta, Podcasts, Extensive Endurance, Best Of, Intensive Endurance Kris Hampton 9/14/22

                                        Breaking Beta | Can Beta-Alanine Supplementation Help You Send Your Sport Climbing Project?

                                        Does using the nutritional supplement beta-alanine improve climbing performance?

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                                        Breaking Beta | Which Finger Strength Protocol is Best for Endurance?
                                        Breaking Beta, Podcasts, Extensive Endurance, Intensive Endurance Kris Hampton 2/9/22 Breaking Beta, Podcasts, Extensive Endurance, Intensive Endurance Kris Hampton 2/9/22

                                        Breaking Beta | Which Finger Strength Protocol is Best for Endurance?

                                        Does this study FINALLY reveal the best hang protocol for climbers?

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                                        What When How to Train | Sport Climbing at Smith Rock
                                        What When How To Train, Podcasts, Travel, Intensive Endurance Kris Hampton 9/3/21 What When How To Train, Podcasts, Travel, Intensive Endurance Kris Hampton 9/3/21

                                        What When How to Train | Sport Climbing at Smith Rock

                                        Smith Rock should be on every sport climber’s list, especially those in search of old-school technical climbing.

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                                        What When How to Train | Sport Climbing in the New River Gorge
                                        What When How To Train, Podcasts, Travel, Intensive Endurance Kris Hampton 7/30/21 What When How To Train, Podcasts, Travel, Intensive Endurance Kris Hampton 7/30/21

                                        What When How to Train | Sport Climbing in the New River Gorge

                                        The best sport climbing in the US? New River climbers would argue that the streaky orange sandstone cliffs of West Virginia are home to just that.

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                                        Power Strips | Level Up Your Campus Training
                                        Power, Products, Intensive Endurance, Video, Home Gym, Best Of Kris Hampton 10/13/20 Power, Products, Intensive Endurance, Video, Home Gym, Best Of Kris Hampton 10/13/20

                                        Power Strips | Level Up Your Campus Training

                                        From coach Nate Drolet and Tension Climbing, the obvious next progression in campus training is here.

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                                        Climb Better: How to Bulletproof Your Technique
                                        Movement Practice, Mental Training, Extensive Endurance, Intensive Endurance, Articles, Video, Best Of Kris Hampton 11/18/18 Movement Practice, Mental Training, Extensive Endurance, Intensive Endurance, Articles, Video, Best Of Kris Hampton 11/18/18

                                        Climb Better: How to Bulletproof Your Technique

                                        It's no secret that skills deteriorate with fatigue, particularly a complicated, high skill sport like climbing.

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                                        Why the Daniel Woods 4x4 is Not a 4x4.
                                        Rants, Physical Training, Articles, Intensive Endurance, Best Of Kris Hampton 5/11/15 Rants, Physical Training, Articles, Intensive Endurance, Best Of Kris Hampton 5/11/15

                                        Why the Daniel Woods 4x4 is Not a 4x4.

                                        There are loads of pro-climber "training" videos out there that are at best, silly, and at worst, irresponsible.

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                                        The High/Low Approach, Part II:  AE Without Training the A
                                        Articles, Physical Training, Intensive Endurance Kris Hampton 9/29/13 Articles, Physical Training, Intensive Endurance Kris Hampton 9/29/13

                                        The High/Low Approach, Part II: AE Without Training the A

                                        When I read that Charlie Francis trained his sprinters by avoiding AE training, I was a little taken aback, and extremely skeptical.

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                                        An Epiphany.
                                        Power, Intensive Endurance, Articles Kris Hampton 1/2/12 Power, Intensive Endurance, Articles Kris Hampton 1/2/12

                                        An Epiphany.

                                        Can you simultaneously be in an intense training cycle and realistically expect to perform your best?  Doubtful. 

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                                        Graduation C.A.P.
                                        Articles, Extensive Endurance, Intensive Endurance Kris Hampton 9/23/11 Articles, Extensive Endurance, Intensive Endurance Kris Hampton 9/23/11

                                        Graduation C.A.P.

                                        How do you climb once you've already taken on a massive pump? That's where the CAP comes in.  Climbing After Pumped. 

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                                        Reader Question:  Rest Times, Part II
                                        Articles, Intensive Endurance, Best Of Kris Hampton 7/10/11 Articles, Intensive Endurance, Best Of Kris Hampton 7/10/11

                                        Reader Question: Rest Times, Part II

                                        Rob asks: When performing 4x4's or any type of interval training I always question what my rest interval should be?

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                                        The Summer/Autumn 2011 Plan.
                                        Articles, Power, Intensive Endurance, Physical Training Kris Hampton 6/4/11 Articles, Power, Intensive Endurance, Physical Training Kris Hampton 6/4/11

                                        The Summer/Autumn 2011 Plan.

                                        Despite the fact that the climbing I most often do is steeped in endurance, I can never have too much power.

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                                        Reader Questions:  A Red River Plan.
                                        Articles, Physical Training, Power, Intensive Endurance Kris Hampton 2/25/11 Articles, Physical Training, Power, Intensive Endurance Kris Hampton 2/25/11

                                        Reader Questions: A Red River Plan.

                                        A reader asks for opinions on his proposed training plan to prepare for climbing at the Red.

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                                        Simplicity:  Fitting the Pieces Together.
                                        Articles, Physical Training, Intensive Endurance Kris Hampton 1/7/11 Articles, Physical Training, Intensive Endurance Kris Hampton 1/7/11

                                        Simplicity: Fitting the Pieces Together.

                                        I've been asked by several friends and readers to give a glimpse into one of my sessions.

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                                        Reader Questions:  Workout Plan
                                        Articles, Physical Training, Intensive Endurance Kris Hampton 10/23/10 Articles, Physical Training, Intensive Endurance Kris Hampton 10/23/10

                                        Reader Questions: Workout Plan

                                        I’ll answer another great question from a reader about their training plan.

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