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Sierra-Blair Coyle looking strong! Photo courtsey of Chris Novellino.
Determining the Best Training for Climbing (for YOU!)
One question I am often asked is whether “going climbing is the best training for climbing?" When presented with this question, my canned answer is always: "it depends." Read on >>
How to Develop Superior Movement Skills
The technical paramount is to climb with perfect economy. Developing superior technique and mental skills is key to this endeavor. This is the first in a series of article on how to improve in these critical areas. Read on Part 1 >> | Part 2 >>
Question & Answer - #76
Question: What are your suggestions for improving the ability to maintain cross tension on "compression" moves? –Vangelis (Greece) Read on >>
Supplemental Training to Reduce Injury Risk
While climbing provides a rigorous workout for the pull muscles, it demands much less of the antagonist push muscles of the chest, shoulders, and upper arms. Engaging in supplemental training of these opposing muscles is therefore a wise investment of some of your training time. Read on >>
Question & Answer - #75
Question: What are your suggestions for improving the ability to maintain cross tension on "compression" moves? –Jonathan (California) Read on >>
The "X-Factors" in Climbing Performance and Achievement
Achieving the next grade or doing the “impossible” is a battle fought more in the mind than the body. Learn the two X-Factors that separate the best from the rest, in any endeavor. Read on >>
Getting into the Moment - Focus Training (Part 4)
Keeping your thoughts in the moment, detached from judgments and thoughts of outcome, is an immensely powerful Zen-master-like mental state. Read on >>
How to Improve Focus and Enhance Performance!
Knowing the importance of concentration to effective risk management and optimal performance, it’s essential that you step onto the vertical stage armed with techniques to fortify mental focus. Read on >>
Body Composition and Climbing Performance
If you've ever hiked with a heavy pack or carried someone on your back, you've experienced the negative effects of excessive weight on physical performance. With this in mind, are you packing excessive weight up your climbs? Read on>>
2 Tips for Improving Concentration and Focus
In climbing, a focused mind joins you to the rock like a fifth appendage. Learn two easy, yet powerful techniques for narrowing and maintaining focus before and during a climb. Read on>>
Self-Assessment Part 6: Evaluate Your Lifestyle & Discipline
This is the sixth in a series of self-assessments that will empower you to train more effectively and climb harder. Read on >>
Tips for Avoiding Injury
Look around and observe all the climbers with finger and elbow tendinopathy...and consciously decide that you will NOT become one of the climbing wounded! Here are five tips for reducing your risk of injury. Read on>>
The Power of Pump-Rock Training!
A set of Pump Rocks™ may be the single best piece of home training equipment save a home climbing wall. Not only do Pump Rocks facilitate a sport-specific, pull-muscle workout anywhere you can hang them, but they also enable you to train some of the vital antagonist push-muscles as well as the core muscles of your torso. Read on >>
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