Health and Fitness Articles

In collaboration with Kalymnos Primal Climb we announce the 10-day climbing, health, and fitness retreat on Kalymnos, Greece (October 9 to 18, 2019): "Primal Climb Interconnected". This retreat is a unique combination to improve climbing basics and specifics building up on the strong 4 Legs Fitness foundation.

This post summarises the key takeaways from a video by Alan Thrall about "How to Bench Press". Alan offered a couple of simple but extremely effective tips that helped me increase my bench press volume by 20% almost instantly. At the same time I reduced pain and injury risk.

Climbing ice is tough but a lot can be learned from it for life. In the article, we summarize the key lessons such as the toughness factor, mental stress, the right people around you, the Principle of Specificity, and how to find your N.U.T.s. 

Applying positive thinking is a very simple yet very effective problem solving tactic that can have significant effects on physical health, such as improving our immune system, prevent chronic disease, accelerate recovery or help coping better with worrying news. 

The 4 Legs Fitness Training Plan Tool provides automated and more effective training tracking.

In the first leg of the 4 Legs Fitness concept we describe resistance training and how to create an effective training regime.

We present some useful tips before we dive into the description of the 4 legs specifically.