The Ninja Warrior training areas you should focus on

Ninja Warriors need first and foremost a lot of upper body strength and endurance, explosiveness, and great grip strength. As an optimal weight-to-strength ratio is also essential, it doesn’t make sense just heading to the gym, lifting some weights, and becoming bulky.

Instead, you should concentrate on becoming like a monkey that can easily swing from branch to branch. To get a functional and athletic body, this needs you to focus on the following aspects:

Advanced climbers and parkours athletes have naturally trained most of these disciplines and thus are performing so well in the Ninja Warriors seasons. That’s why I strongly recommend bouldering.

But, let’s dive a bit deeper into the single training aspects.