Media appearances related to Sputnik Research and Team members.
Sputnik Research is born!
A very unwise idea had been floating around Sputnik for years: create a multidisciplinary research team, lead a group of young athletes and share the experience and knowledge with the entire climbing community. Well, the idea now has a name, Sputnik Research, and it’s a reality!
El Cohete (16/3/22)
Finger strength test – Sputnik Research needs you!
It’s happened to you a thousand times: you’re going to train at the climbing wall, to try out your bouldering project or that rock route that’s got you in knots and you don’t know if you’re in optimal condition. Knowing how you’re doing…
El Cohete (3/8/22)
Sputnik Research and Summer Training Camp
Seven months have already passed. It is a short time to take stock but more than enough time to measure the pulse of Sputnik Research and realize that, far from slowing down, the project…
El Cohete (23/5/23)
Training and menstrual cycle: your period counts!
You come in one day to climb and you go and chain your maximum grade and come back the next week, just before you get your period, and you don’t even get on a stool. Sound familiar? Keep in mind in what…
El Cohete (26/6/23)
Sputnik Team. New stage and new incorporations
Eighteen months ago, an ambitious project was launched: Sputnik Research. Under the skepticism generated by doubts about its viability, but driven by the enthusiasm of its promoters, the project…
El Cohete (27/4/23)
Sputnik’s new online training is launched
We present the new Sputnik online training, a very different proposal with respect to the previous approach. We tell you how it is organized, what is its objective and what differentiates it…
El Cohete (30/4/23)
We have copied ‘Bibliographie’!
One of the most difficult tracks in the world, Bibliographie, has a clone in Sputnik. It is part of Jorge Díaz-Rullo’s training and is the result of a process devised and designed by Sputnik Investigación…
El Cohete (8/3/22)
Our chronicle of the Test Event for Paris 2024
Last March 4 and 5 was held the first official competition drill as it will be in Paris 2024, organized by the IFSC and FEDME. It was also the first competition in which…
El Cohete (8/9/20)
El ‘método integral’ en el entrenamiento de escalada
Miguel Santolaya (sports psychologist, professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) and Ekhiotz Alsasua (graduate in Physical Activity Sciences) are…
El Cohete (22/1/20)
The Effort Character I: train less to perform more
We climbers have inherited the idea that a good training is one that produces a great fatigue, but scientific experience in other sports and the…
El Cohete (23/3/23)
PEACE AND LOVE. Protocol in case of injury, from the acute phase to rehabilitation.
Injuries come without warning and, worst of all, when they occur, it is rare to have a physiotherapist, a sports doctor or, at least, someone capable of giving good advice on how to treat them….
El Cohete (2/6/20)
Back to the rock. Injury prevention in the first half
We see the light at the end of the tunnel, little by little we touch the rocks again and we finally remove the cobwebs from the cat’s feet. It’s time to start carefully…
El Cohete (16/4/20)
Growth plate stress. Adolescent injury.
The boys and girls are made of rubber. They stretch in ways that we would break and the relationship between their strength and weight makes them scale a level that…
El Cohete (10/3/20)
Bandaging of fingers after pulley injury
In our previous article on injuries we talked about pulley rupture: how it occurs, how it is prevented and how it is treated. In this video we explain in detail…
El Cohete (2/1/20)
Case study: muscle overload
Diagnosis of the first consultation: muscle overload in the shoulders, beginning of epicondylitis in the right elbow and a nerve entrapment in the foot.
El Cohete (15/1/20)
TRX: effective tool to prevent climbing injuries
Climbing is a very complex sporting activity where several muscle groups are used and where we continuously activate the stabilizing musculature…
El Cohete (14/2/20)
10 questions about pulley breakage
It is every climber’s nightmare, a terrifying snap that heralds a few months in the dry dock and one of the most common toe injuries if…
El Cohete (2/1/20)
Epicondylitis: the most common pathology when we have pain in the elbow
Climbing, bouldering, climbing wall training, dumbbell exercises in a gym, even manual labor. There are many causes that can lead to pain in the…
El Cohete (10/4/20)
Feel, decide, act
There are three concatenated and inseparable phases – perception, decision and execution – to carry out a motor task. Sometimes, the first two take on a…
El Cohete (3/4/20)
Epidemiology of climbing injuries: Where do we break?
Do you climb high boulders? do you only train on the rock? do you do psicobloc? maybe you prefer long alpine routes? first or usually on top rope?
