Repeat hard boulders under time limit
8 boulders 1-2 grades below your max, 5 min each including rest. Climb each one again.
- Slot
- On the wall
- Focus
- Power
- Time
- 40 min
- Intensity
- High intensity
- Injury risk
- Moderate injury risk
- Equipment
- Boulders, Timer
How to do it
Pick 8 boulders you've already topped, one or two grades below your hardest. You get 5 minutes per boulder, rest included, to climb it again. When the timer moves on, so do you, even if you didn't send.
Run it now
The same timer as the app: a five-second get-ready, then every round and rest counted down with a beep. Keep this page open while you train.
Repeat hard boulders under time limit
0:00 / 40:05
Ready
40:05
8 rounds
8 boulders 1-2 grades below your max, 5 min each including rest. Climb each one again.
High risk: read the protocol, stop if anything feels wrong.
- 8
- rounds
- 5:00
- climb
- 40:05
- total
Done.
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Take the quizWho it's for
Power endurance for climbers who can already do their grade. Repeating boulders one or two grades below your max, against a clock, trains you to keep climbing well while tired.
Common mistakes
- Picking your hardest sends. That turns it into a max session. One or two grades below is the point.
- Spending all five minutes climbing. Rest is inside the window. Plan it.
- Going back to a boulder. When the timer moves on, so do you.
How to progress
Keep the same eight boulders for a few weeks and count how many you repeat. When most of them go, swap in harder ones.
When it fits
The training periods this exercise fits into in Blok Sessions.
Power Explosive moves, momentum and coordination.
Power Endurance Keep your power through one hard move after another.
Performance Peak for a trip or a comp: focus, reading problems, trying hard.