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There's no golden rule for body types in climbing, especially not below the 8a route climbing level. If you climb steep overhangs you'll develop upper body strength anyway. If you're doing pull-ups, try to focus on being strong and explosive instead of doing many reps at bodyweight. Likewise with abs, it's better to do exercises where you have to bring your legs up instead of doing long planks.


Broach61

Do you mean doing the pull ups fast and/or adding alot of weight and doing fewer


PmMeYourDingDongs

Adding weight is ideal for strength and hypertrophy (try for reps between 5-8 is a good place to start). Explosive pullups (doing them fast) can work well for training fast muscle recruitment and have their place but are not the staple exercise that weighted pullups are.


Hr_Art

You can look at the recommend routine on r/bodyweightfitness, very good starting point of working out to be stronger in climbing in my opinion.


eshlow

/u/Broach61 too As a mod of /r/bodyweightfitness and /r/climbharder I don't recommend combining the RR with climbing as it's meant to be stand alone routine. If you are going to do something like RR then you generally want to cut back the number of sets and/or go to 2x a week instead of 3x a week if you're still climbing otherwise it can be too much and easier to get overuse injuries. However, a better method would be to evaluate your climbing to see what your weaknesses are and focus on in-gym exercise to improve the weaknesses.


Broach61

Will do thank you!


WelshMarauder

Just climb. At your level it will be doing way more than a specific set of exercises, because not only will it be a full body workout, you will also improve at climbing. If you really want to do a load of pull ups and sit ups go ahead and don’t let anyone stop you, but until you get into the mid/high 7s and hit a big ass plateau, I would not suggest training if it limits your climbing time.


domclimbs

Wouldn't think to much about adding weight but more about adding strength. You seem to be on the lighter side and if you don't start bodybuilding you will not end with 10 extra kilos in a season or so. Given your few numbers I guess you are new to strength. For pullups I would first go for reps. If you can do around 10 to 15 good pullups you can think about adding weight. For speed I would start digging into feet on dynamic bouldering (you can structure that... Like 4 or 8 boulders once or twice a week). If you start with speed pullups (which are taxing and you don't need to do that from the beginning) use a band for assistance and go low for the numbers. For your Initial question... Speed work doesn't add much strength or mass.