Up-A-Grade Description
Generally, Rock Climbers have a very specific set of needs and priorities when it comes to working out, and existing apps don’t meet those needs.
- Climbing tracking apps are too focused on tracking specific climbs - and are often limited to certain products. If you climb at a gym, outdoors, and on a training wall, you might need three different apps to track it.
- Workout planning apps are too generalist. Though they allow for planning workouts, they aren’t specific to climbers, and often don’t support the types of training routines that climbers integrate.
- Finally, some workout planning apps do support a variety of activity types, but they’re focused on gaining muscle mass. Since climbers need to stay lean, they’re much more focused on building strength, not size, and don’t really care about calories-in/calories-out.
Across all these apps, to track everything even an intermediate climber might need to maintain, they may need 5+ apps.
Moreover, climbers at different levels of expertise might need a variety of different things. Unlike other apps, which are largely stratified by age and needs, climbers are best stratified by their skill level.
Beginner Climbers – haven’t been climbing for long, and aren’t super rigorous about training, if they do at all. They want to get stronger, and better, but they don’t really have information about how to do so. They are fairly clueless about the risk of injury.
Intermediate Climbers – have been climbing for 1-3 years and are more rigorous about training. They are usually starting to integrate specific strength and conditioning training for grip strength, upper body pull strength, etc. They climb frequently and are looking for ways to keep improving. As they start to work on more intense climbs, they are likely to run into injuries, and would do well to implement preventative training into their workouts.
Advanced Climbers – have been climbing for a long time, and generally have extremely rigorous routines. They involve specific exercises, climbing patterns, and need only to continue identifying their weaknesses and pushing to elite levels of strength. Often, these climbers compete and need to maintain recovery from injuries actively. They need clear ways to measure their progress, and the capacity to plan on how to improve.
Clearly, these climbers all need different things, and currently, there is no all-in-one app that serves climbers of all skill levels.
Our app solves this issue by integrating functionality from a number of apps, including workout planning and tracking when and where you send new climbs. Then, we’ll add novel functionality, including information on training plans for injury prevention/recovery, tracking of climbing-specific strength and performance metrics, and recommendations for specific ways to get better at climbing.
- Climbing tracking apps are too focused on tracking specific climbs - and are often limited to certain products. If you climb at a gym, outdoors, and on a training wall, you might need three different apps to track it.
- Workout planning apps are too generalist. Though they allow for planning workouts, they aren’t specific to climbers, and often don’t support the types of training routines that climbers integrate.
- Finally, some workout planning apps do support a variety of activity types, but they’re focused on gaining muscle mass. Since climbers need to stay lean, they’re much more focused on building strength, not size, and don’t really care about calories-in/calories-out.
Across all these apps, to track everything even an intermediate climber might need to maintain, they may need 5+ apps.
Moreover, climbers at different levels of expertise might need a variety of different things. Unlike other apps, which are largely stratified by age and needs, climbers are best stratified by their skill level.
Beginner Climbers – haven’t been climbing for long, and aren’t super rigorous about training, if they do at all. They want to get stronger, and better, but they don’t really have information about how to do so. They are fairly clueless about the risk of injury.
Intermediate Climbers – have been climbing for 1-3 years and are more rigorous about training. They are usually starting to integrate specific strength and conditioning training for grip strength, upper body pull strength, etc. They climb frequently and are looking for ways to keep improving. As they start to work on more intense climbs, they are likely to run into injuries, and would do well to implement preventative training into their workouts.
Advanced Climbers – have been climbing for a long time, and generally have extremely rigorous routines. They involve specific exercises, climbing patterns, and need only to continue identifying their weaknesses and pushing to elite levels of strength. Often, these climbers compete and need to maintain recovery from injuries actively. They need clear ways to measure their progress, and the capacity to plan on how to improve.
Clearly, these climbers all need different things, and currently, there is no all-in-one app that serves climbers of all skill levels.
Our app solves this issue by integrating functionality from a number of apps, including workout planning and tracking when and where you send new climbs. Then, we’ll add novel functionality, including information on training plans for injury prevention/recovery, tracking of climbing-specific strength and performance metrics, and recommendations for specific ways to get better at climbing.
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