NICROS - Training Center

NICROS is proud to bring back the popular NEXGEN hangboard, originally released in 1998, and now fully revised and updated for this 2008 release! Perhaps the best training board ever designed, the NEXGEN2 has an amazing variety of features and a sweet differential texture that your fingers will love. The board will work all your grip positions with small- and medium-sized pockets, crimps, slopers, and pinch holds, plus two killer zero-tex pull-up jugs! NEXGEN2 is the next best thing to having a climbing wall (see how the Moving Hangs exercise below can simulate climbing--ideal for people with no space for a home wall).

Whether you need a hangboard for a warming-up before climbing, doing pull-ups and hypergravity training, or cranking out a full-on training-for-climbing workout, the new NEXGEN2 cannot be beat--we challenge you to find another hangboard with more useable features suitable for training!

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Here's one of the many exercises you can work on the NEXGEN2:

Moving Hangs
Moving hangs involve working your hands around the board continuously for several minutes, much like climbing a long, sustained sequence on the rock. Doing this requires somewhere to place your feet while your hands switch holds on the board. The best way to do this is to mount your fingerboard so that it’s set a foot or two out from a wall, and then to mount a few small footholds or a wooden strip onto which you can place your feet (see photo). Another possibility is to mount the board above a doorway and then position a chair or stool a couple feet behind the board. Either way, you will be able to use your toes for support as you circulate your hands around the fingerboard.

1. Perform a twenty to thirty-minute warm up comprised of some aerobic activity, stretching, and some pull-ups and easy hangs on the fingerboard. You should break a light sweat and feel a slight pump in your arms.
2. Mount the board and then place your feet on footholds or on the edge of a chair.
3. Begin moving your hands around the fingerboard changing hand positions every three to five seconds.
4. After a minute or two, you will begin to develop a pump in your forearms. Move both hands on to the largest handholds on the board, and shake out each arm for about thirty seconds in an attempt to recovery a little.
5. After this brief shakeout, continue moving your hands around the board for another minute or two. Once again, move to the large holds if you need to shakeout and rest your muscles a little.
6. Continue in this fashion with the goal of staying on the board for a total of five to ten minutes.
7. Dismount the board, and take a rest of about ten minutes before proceeding with a second and third set.