Rope Climbs for Functional Fitness: Beginner Tutorial

Want to learn how to climb a rope using your legs? I coach beginner Nikki how to secure her feet using a simple clamp method that makes it easy to get to the top! We start with a seated progression before moving on to putting weight into the rope, so total beginners can try these drills.

00:00 Introduction
00:38 Baseline testing
01:21 Good rope climb demo
02:34 Box drill - clamp
04:22 How to clamp and stand
05:15 How to move up the rope
07:29 How to come down
11:29 Get more efficient

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[sparkxsunshine]

I got my first rope climb from this!! Thanks so much!

[ruthtiangco]

probably the best tutorial on how to rope climb! having an actual beginner in the video doing the movements slowly helps a lot!

[elinevanvroonhoven]

I love these tutorials with actual beginners - thank you :) hoping there is more to come! How about a toes to bar?

[estellazhang]

❤ learned the scissor concept and sitting on the box to start… thank u so much!

[jasonvinton]

Signed up for the Savage Race a few days ago, and have never REALLY climbed a rope...I bought a 15 footer, got it attached to a tree in my front yard...tried a few times as you'd think you should climb...MAYBE got 1 foot up the rope...found your video..after 2 tries I made it to the top of the limb!

[MegCharla]

The slice/unslice is a really useful cue I think I'll use in future. I usually tell people "clamp" but it doesn't always translate.

[lemonlime]

This is probably the most helpful video.

[ananyaferguson]

Thank you so much for the video! I can climb the rope no problem. But to come down is very terrifying. I'll try your technique for sure. And Nicky good job!

[MsBellydancediva]

Idk if you will see this! But using this video I finally did the rope climb in my ocr race!!! Thanks!

[contentconsumer]

Would you be able to do a tutorial for legless rope climbs?

[mvptrainingnz]

I’d love to know how to come down faster/more efficiently. I see athletes let go of the rope & clamp on the way down. Would love to know how to do this without getting rope burn!

[Xyz-nxul]

If the rope's highest point is tied to a spiked fence, how do you get over the fence and come down using the rope?

[BigRobMOG]

I guess you can consider your clamp methods more of an advanced/ speed method but the beginner/intermediate method would be all the way on top with the bottom leg/ left leg

[enriquearroyo]

Is the dominant foot on top or bottom?

[jodiwilts]

It should be illegal to show this on videos, people will be f’kin around and finding out alone in a 24 hour gym 🤭