Question 1

What's ClimbPlan?

Accepted Answer

ClimbPlan generates personalized 12-week climbing training plans using AI. You take a 5-minute assessment covering your climbing level, goals, injuries, and schedule. The AI analyzes everything and builds a phased training program customized to you. Not a template. Your plan.

Question 2

How is this different from hiring a coach?

Accepted Answer

A climbing coach costs $100-300/month with ongoing appointments. ClimbPlan starts at $19.99. You get a fully personalized 12-week plan with daily sessions, exercise details, and coaching notes explaining every phase. You won't get live hand-holding, but you'll get a plan that accounts for your specific grade, goals, injuries, and schedule — the same inputs a good coach would ask about.

Question 3

How personalized is it really?

Accepted Answer

The assessment collects data across six areas: your climbing grades, your goals, your injuries, your available time, your equipment and gym access, and your climbing style. Two climbers at the same grade with different goals and injuries get completely different plans.

Question 4

Can I get a plan if I have an injury?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The assessment asks about each injury in detail — body area, description, whether it's active or chronic, and your current pain level (1-10). The AI uses this to modify exercises, avoid aggravating movements, and work around your limitations. If you're working with a physical therapist, you can note that too. Most injured climbers avoid structured training because they don't know what's safe. Your plan removes that guesswork.

Question 5

How long does plan generation take?

Accepted Answer

A few minutes after you complete the assessment. You'll get your plan in the app with a full calendar view. You can also download it as a PDF.

Question 6

Will I get stronger if I follow the plan?

Accepted Answer

If you follow the plan consistently, take rest days seriously, eat enough, and sleep enough — yes. Your plan uses periodization: structured phases that progress your training so your body adapts instead of plateauing. The plan provides the structure. You provide the consistency.

Question 7

Can I follow the plan if I've never trained before?

Accepted Answer

Yes, but be honest on the assessment. Select your actual grade, your actual experience level. If you've been climbing less than 6 months, say so. Your plan adjusts to your level. Beginners get plans that build progressively. You won't get thrown into advanced hangboard protocols on week one.

Question 8

How much time per week does this take?

Accepted Answer

It depends on what you tell us during the assessment. You set your weekly climbing hours and off-wall training hours, and choose which days you prefer to climb and train. Your plan fits the time you have.

Question 9

Is this better for bouldering or sport climbing?

Accepted Answer

Both. You tell us your climbing types (bouldering, sport, trad, top rope) and your goals. Bouldering goals emphasize power and max strength. Sport climbing goals emphasize endurance and capacity. Your plan matches what you're training for.

Question 10

What's the "why" behind each phase?

Accepted Answer

Periodization. Your body adapts to training stimulus — if you do the same thing every week, you plateau. ClimbPlan structures your 12 weeks into phases, each with a specific purpose: building volume, increasing intensity, peaking for performance, and recovering. Your plan explains what each phase targets and why it's sequenced that way.

Question 11

Do I need special equipment?

Accepted Answer

During the assessment, you select exactly what equipment you have access to — hangboard, pull-up bar, resistance bands, dumbbells, campus board, and more. Your plan uses what you have. Home setup with just a hangboard? It works with that. Full commercial gym? It uses more.

Question 12

Is this medical advice?

Accepted Answer

No. ClimbPlan is training programming, not medical advice. If you have a serious injury, see a doctor or physical therapist first. Then use ClimbPlan to structure your training around it.

Question 13

How do I get support?

Accepted Answer

Email. Every message gets a response.

Question 14

Who are you?

Accepted Answer

I'm Scott. Climber for 3+ years. I used this process to improve my own climbing, and built ClimbPlan because I was frustrated with generic training plans that didn't account for my injuries or goals. This is the result.

Question 15

Why should I trust you?

Accepted Answer

You shouldn't — yet. Try it. If the plan doesn't work for you, that's valuable feedback and I want to hear about it. Trust is earned through results. Use your plan, get stronger, tell your friends.

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