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How much of a role does full cardiovascular exercise, like running, cycling or swimming, have in the training programmes of the worlds top competition boulders? I wonder what their 10k times would be? Just curious.

In reply to matthewbromley:

good for weight control to do aerobic stuff but top comp boulderers are probably doing specific training programs and I cant see a lot of transferrence as they'll already likely have some base level fitness.

In reply to matthewbromley:

Probably basically not much for boulderers. For instance, in his training video Jan Hojer (who just won the boulder world cup in Chongqing) says: "I train 3 to 5 times a week, usually for about 2 hours ... Even if I add 2 hours of antagonist training, stretching and running, I won't exceed 15 hours of training." ( vimeo.com/66473915 )

In reply to matthewbromley:

Not much for the cardio benefit probably, I'd imagine they would see more benefit from the mental and general conditioning/weight loss aspects though