Customer Reviews

Gym Climbing: Maximizing Your Indoor Experience (Mountaineers Outdoor Expert)

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Matt Burbach (a.k.a. M@ at Urban Climber Magazine) continues to impress with this instructive and comprehensive book on gym climbing. The photos and descriptions of everything from technique to learning how to lead are really useful for someone like me who is beginning to climb hard routes more consistently. I don't climb outdoors very often, so the other books discussing climbing on "real" rock don't really give me the information I need to improve at my local rock gym. Burbach's book is different. It is specifically geared toward "urban climbers" like myself who climb in gyms and want to improve. I recommend this book to people wanting to maximize their indoor experience.

When I bought this book I was a novice climber, with only 4 months of work at my local gym and already this book seemed VERY basic.
Would have been good for my first two weeks at the gym, but at that point, even though I was bearly climbing above 5.10 this book didn't help at all.
I wish it would have included a 3 to 6 month comprehensive training program so I wouldn't have had to design it myself, improvising with info from this book and other internet sources.
Maybe it was that I got good guidance at my local gym which basically covered all the tips showcased in this book, but I insist, a good training program is missing here.

This book is an excellent source of information about every aspect of gym climbing. I found every chapter of it extremely helpful. The best part is that it is not a long boring book. Every bit of it contains information. The pictures help a lot.

It is a recommendable book if you want to learn about climbing, lots of pictures that show precisely how to proceed. The best book I found so far.