Quiet climbing
6-8 boulders you can climb first try, with silent hands and feet. Restart if you make noise.
- Slot
- On the wall
- Focus
- Precision
- Time
- 20 min
- Intensity
- Low intensity
- Injury risk
- Low injury risk
- Equipment
- Boulders
How to do it
Climb boulders you can usually climb first try while placing every hand and foot silently. If you hear a scrape or thud, step off and start again. Climb 6-8 boulders.
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.
Quiet climbing
0:00 / 20:05
Ready
20:05
6 rounds
6-8 boulders you can climb first try, with silent hands and feet. Restart if you make noise.
High risk: read the protocol, stop if anything feels wrong.
- 6
- rounds
- 20:05
- total
Done.
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Everyone. Noise is wasted energy and imprecise placement, and the restart rule makes it impossible to ignore.
Common mistakes
- Letting a small scrape go. Step off and start again. That's the drill.
- Only listening to your feet. Hands slap too.
- Boulders that are too hard. Flash level, so you have attention to spare.
How to progress
Harder boulders and steeper ground. On a board, where the holds are unforgiving, quiet climbing is much harder than it sounds.
When it fits
The training periods this exercise fits into in Blok Sessions.
Base Lots of easy climbing, good movement and aerobic fitness.
Endurance Climb longer before you pump out, by moving efficiently.
Performance Peak for a trip or a comp: focus, reading problems, trying hard.
Deload Train less, let your fingers recover, keep moving.