I climb best when I

I do the same. I don’t agree with the “standing will blow you up” logic. You gotta train your standing as with anything else. I can produce more power and I can use standing as a way to bring my heart rate down if needed.

I’ll do standing intervals where I have to be at a certain power of for 5 mins and progress that up to 10 mins.

Plus I feel way more badass standing.