I need to build upper body strength for rock climbing, any tips?

Rock Climbing doesn't just require strength it requires Balance, Range of Motion, Flexibility and Stamina. Yoga is a wonderful way to gain these body resources and more. Also try some meditation, a mental work out will serve you well. Under standing your safety systems, your belay technic, and how to keep your focus when actually off the ground on the rock face.

To begin with you shouldn't need upper body strength very much, as the holds you're using are massive for hands and feet, so you can simply use your legs to push you up. HowEver... you will need to develop your finger grip muscles, as these are totally weak in non-climbers. To strengthen this, just go round squeezing a squash ball or tennis ball all day..

Calisthenics are the best training to improve climbing strength and endurance. You don't want to build bulk, just strength. Any extra weight on you has to be hauled with you. Lose any unnecessary muscle/fat with a combination of pull-ups, push-ups, crunches, bridge exercises (for core muscles), running for leg strength and endurance. Grip strength, one of your most important allies on the wall, can be trained with grip tools such as rubber rings or gyroscope devices available where climbing equipment is sold, or with deadhanging exercises on a hangboard or door frame. Just climbing itself — and often — is excellent training for harder climbing, as it trains the exact muscles you need to keep doing that same kind of exercise.

Well, for climbing i mainly rely on upper body strength... u need alot to do harder grades as the holds become smaller and the angle smaller aswell. Nothing can prepare you for climbing more than actually climbing so go to the climbing wall like every week. At home press ups are good, also press ups with your feet on something higher such as ur bed or sofa this makes it harder....Then theres the classic pull ups- do a mix of wide grip for back strength and smaller grip for mainly bicep or tricep strength. Then its fore arm strength, door frames are good as there quite thin....do pull ups etc on door frames or if u want to invest buy a campus board or somthing along those lines. Hope this helps :)

Climbing is a full body activity. You'd do well to train your whole body, especially your legs, which should carry most of the weight and do most of the pushing. Your hands/hand grips are just to keep you vertical and to direct climbing path. That said, shoulders/lats/triceps will be sore, but within a couple climbs, you'll feel pretty immediately improved on those. Practice and have fun!! :)

Do pull downs with light weights. This will give you endurance. Also do bench presses. Do all of this with light weights. You not only need upper body strength but also grip strength, so do exercises for grip strength; you know, with the rubber balls or the hand grips. You might also jog, because you need endurance. This will help strengthen the legs. You know you want small muscle, not large muscle. Hope this helps you. You might also want to do negative bench presses or what I call chest pulls where you pull the weight up to you. You know strong back muscles are very important also.