Alex Honnold showcasing his home gym

    by Aurora F Ochoa: Politics

    Alex Honnold, the free climber, is sharing a peek at his home gym.

    Transcript (en)

    Hey I'm Alex Arnold, welcome to my home gym. Let me walk you through my normal workout. I start actually doing a climbing warm-up And I come over onto the spray wall. I generally start on what I call June's wall This is kind of the easiest section that's technically for my daughter my two-year-old But but actually it's where I generally warm up to. Eventually start training on the boards The boards are adjustable. So right now it's 30 degrees. We're tilting it back to 70 degrees Sometimes you train on these really steep sometimes you train on them more vertical. It's gonna take a long time The thing is when it gets steep enough Then you can basically just reach the top and it kind of makes a mockery of the whole climbing thing to begin with. Still going So here's the board at 70. I need chalk. This is the idea I basically spend an hour, hour and a half climbing on the board various ways depending on what my project is depending what exactly I'm training for Earlier this winter I was trying something that was very steep outside. So I was actually climbing it near this angle There's also a couple climbing specific training tools over here. This one's called the Campus Board. You climb without your feet. Like going from one to five to nine is considered a benchmark training goal. It'd be like running a four minute mile or something. I've never even been remotely close to doing that. Those are hang boards you just dangle from your fingers with weight. And I generally end my climbing sessions with some kind of weights. Maybe cross training, maybe weighted pull-ups, maybe a little bit of Lifting in various ways. I'm not a big weightlifter, but, you know, do a few things just to round things out. Normally it takes a few hours. Enjoy.