The Juggernaut Training Plan

A Flexible Approach to Strength and Power

This is another re-release of our paid training plan PDFs from the old Climb Strong site. Of all the training I’ve done, this combination of hard lifting and bouldering made me feel the strongest.

This plan does require a fair amount of weight training knowledge and an understanding of the varying levels of bouldering intensity.

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This didn’t start out as most training plans do, it sort of “just happened” as I tried to

maintain some level of fitness for climbing through a busy summer and early fall,

and I wasn’t getting as much climbing as I’d like. I was only training a couple days

most weeks and sometimes three, and I really wanted to do the best I could with that

time. As far as what I was addressing:

1. I only had time for maybe 90 minutes, 2-3 times per week. It constrained what

I did, but it also is plenty. Much more and I wouldn’t be recovering enough to

train as hard as I planned.

2. I wanted to get better at hard moves, and maintain some amount of route

endurance. Thus, the climbing focus ended up being on the power end of the

spectrum.

3. I wanted to address overall strength, both because of my age (injury

prevention and power maintenance), and because I am doing other activities. I

don’t want to go out for a short ski day and end up sore from it.

4. I wanted to have a plan that slowly built several facets of fitness, rather than a

more focused plan that would ramp up just one or two.