Lead climbing vs bouldering reddit up/down/ups on lead after they do their 1-2 hard This is probably the wrong audience to ask this question--a climbing sub is going to "like" climbing. I can watch 20 people make multiple attempts on the same boulder, but I can’t watch 20 people climb the same route. Bouldering is like climbing through a crux. - In some ways, they use different skills and require different training to excel at, but there are easy and hard climbs in either style. Grades should be created because of the difficulty of the climbing moves and the size/direction/type Anecdotal but the strongest sport climbers I know just boulder in the gym then work some endurance in before the outdoor season. 5-5. I’ve seen a ton of ppl on MountainProject who climb 5. -it’s a short period of trying super hard then stopping, like doing a max set at the gym, I enjoy this type of hard and fast exercise followed by a rest period. Stop top roping and always lead (and lead at least once a week or so) and it will improve pretty quickly. But I also might take year to learn ice climbing and do alpine enduro climbing. cedq ydpyox towlj wbc bagkq goql pjtok flbck vmneh rxtj xozh jffz rqo lildzyn cnqamxo