Take your climbing to new heights.
CLIMBING TRAINING PROGRAM
Stop getting dropped.
Pillar has developed the cycling industry’s first custom climbing training program, which adapts around your schedule, your experience level and your fitness.
We’re advised by some of the sports industry’s top experts and athletes, to ensure your training is as good as the pros’.
The Pillar climbing training progam also provides information and guidance around climbing technique, nutrition, psychology, equipment, and climbing tips.
Conquer the climbs.
Designed with all the specific sessions to turbocharge your climbing. Following the scientifically backed training principles that maximise gains.
On your schedule.
Don’t let life interfere with your climbing training. Let Pillar set your sessions around your schedule. Just tell it if you’re away or sick and it’ll adjust for you.
Watch your progress.
Get into the nitty-gritty of your climbing training with Pillar’s in-depth performance analysis. Never overtrain again.
How to improve your climbing.
There are lots of different factors and demands to make a good climber, all the way from your base endurance capacity, to the weight of you and your bike. In order to improve your foundational climbing performance (and save the weight gains for later), these demands must be targeted by ensuring sufficient endurance sessions, specific intensity sessions, and adequate recovery.
Endurance Sessions
For all types of climbs, even for shorter climbs, building a strong aerobic base is essential for improving your climbing performance. Endurance sessions are, of course, key for building an aerobic foundation. Building a good aerobic foundation will also help accommodate and enhance the higher intensity work. Pillar climbing training programs carefully plan the most optimal endurance work that is required to achieve the greatest training responses whilst considering your availability and climbing goals.
Intensity Sessions
To improve climbing performance you need to target the specific energy systems that are required to perform that effort. This is done by implementing specific intensity sessions that target the required signaling pathways which are required to enhance the different energy systems. For example, for short bunch climbs the biggest performance demands come from the anaerobic energy system. So high-intensity sessions that manipulate this pathway are required to achieve optimal performance improvements. Pillar always considers and applies the most optimal intensity approach for your climbing training program.
Recovery
The intensity of climb-specific training can be really strenuous and tiring. As much as any other training plan, ensuring optimal recovery is essential to allow the body to recover and adapt to each training stimulus. A climbing training program from Pillar will carefully plan your recovery alongside your training and availability to make sure you’re getting the best training stimulus and enhancement time.
A climbing training program from Pillar will help you organise and implement these key training principles to turbocharge your climbing out on the roads.
“Pillar has given me the structure to rest at the right times and get the most possible out of my sessions.”
- Bob, Monmouthshire
Make each session count.
POLARISED
Pillar follows a polarised training approach to ensure that users have the optimal combination of training volume and intensity, making sure you’re getting the biggest bang for your buck from your training time. Just like a real coach would.
PERIODISED
Prevent risk of injury, illness and overtraining by following a periodised training programme.
SPECIFIED
Make each workout count. Let Pillar do the hard work for you and plan your sessions to ensure you’re taking the right steps at the right time.
Try Pillar today.