Playa Rocks

Yes, Playa Rocks IS OPEN for Boulder Climbing, everyday.
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Who is ready to come back and climb?
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Get into push up position. Bend your elbows 90 degrees and rest your weight on your forearms, hold this position for as long as desired🔥🔥💪🏼🔥

Hold a pair of dumbbells at your side while standing or sitting upright in a chair, curl the weights by bending your elbow, curl them until the dumbbells are at shoulder level. Then slowly lower the dumbbells back down to your sides!🔥💪🏼🤟🏼🔥

Normal push ups are great for working your antagonistic muscles, they can help your body balance out a little bit and lose some of that climber’s hunch💪🏼🔥💪🏼🤟🏼

Place your hands shoulder width apart on a chair or bench with your legs extended out straight in front of you, bend your elbows to lower your body to the floor until your elbows are at a 90 degree angle. Then press down to straighten your elbows and return to the starting position! 💪🏼🔥🔥💪🏼

While standing or sitting, take a dumbbell in each hand,raise the dumbbells to shoulder height one at a time, with wrists oriented so the palms of your hands are facing forward.
Press the dumbbells upward until they touch at the top. Slowly lower the dumbbells back to shoulder height.🔥💪🏼🤟🏼💪🏼

Any way you provide resistance to your fingers is going to be beneficial to your climbing, use resistance bands to press your fingers against, practice cleans and deadlifts to exercise your grip and work your forearms. Pet your dog or cat vigorously, do fingertip push ups, climb a rope at the gym, hang onto a chain link fence at the bus stop, stand on the subway and hold on to the handle.
The more awareness you have around what you’re doing with your hands, the more likely you are to acquire stronger fingers inside and outside the gym, and most of all, keep climbing! After all, boulder climbing, rock climbing has more benefits than just improving strength.🔥🤪💪🏼🤟🏼🔥

This common finger strengthening exercise sometimes seems unbelievably simple, straight to the point, squeezing a tennis ball as hard as you can until failure will increase your finger strength, do this 10 times per day in conjunction with any of the other training methods and you will see results.
Some folks hang tennis balls from a beam and hang from them, if you are able to do this, do it! It’s a great strength building and a nice back stretch! 💪🏼🎾🔥🤟🏼

Have you ever worn out your fingers and forearms helping a friend move? Carrying boxes puts the same resistance on your fingers as climbing, but inversely, try these finger strengthening exercises using boxes you probably have at home.
Use Rubbermaid tubs as a starting point, wrap your fingers around the rim as it’s easier to grip the lip, throw some bricks in there to add resistance and do a couple laps around your neighborhood or even up and down a hill.
As this gets easier, move on to cardboard boxes. It’s more challenging to prevent your fingers slipping off the bottom of a cardboard box a great way to practice clinging to slopers, you can walk a mile carrying a box for a total body workout 💪🏼🔥📦🤚🏼📦