In reply to Adam Coles:
> (In reply to UKC Articles) It is quite easy to involve warm up and cool down as part of a training session at a climbing wall but much harder to achive this outdoors at the crag or on big days out. We use a skipping rope to get the heart rate up. Anyone have ideas on good warm up outdoors.
Most trad crags (apart from sea cliffs with ab descent) are easy to warm up at, as there are normally some easy bits of rock to climb around on (as per the article), or easy routes to do. I find Sport crags without easy routes more of a challenge, and if I can't find an obvious traverse to play on, or an easy start of a route, then I just tend to do what I do on my fingerboard - find some good holds and do some pull-ups and hangs, then link short sections with good holds, introduce some smaller holds etc. It's not as satisfactory as a proper warm up as described in the article but seems to work ok.