Board Meetings | Principle vs. Prescription in Climbing Training
How do you know which is right for your situation?
Board Meetings | Should Climbers Train Where They Are or Where They Want To Be?
Starting where you are is an important first step that is often missed.
Expert | Joy Black on Training for Pregnant Climbers, Trimester by Trimester
Joy Black is a strength and climbing coach specializing in working with pregnant and postpartum climbers.
Board Meetings | Is Your Climbing Training Corrective or Constructive?
There's a fine line between reactive and proactive training. If you're constantly being corrective or reactive, you may want to rethink things.
Patron Question: Climbing Improvement and Training vs. Performance in the Same Environment
How should we separate training and performance when they both occur in the same environment?
Expert | Will Anglin on Climbing All The Things, the Intersection of Strength and Movement, and the Ultimate Tool
Co-founder of Tension Climbing, Will Anglin, talks movement skills, how climbers can continue improving, and the tools that can help.
Taped Tips | Stop Applying Training Principles to Climbing Performance
Training principles are important, but when they creep into performance, your climbing will suffer. Nearly every time.
What When How to Train | Blue Mountains with Lee Cujes
Looking to climb on sandstone cliffs full of high-angled crimps? Look no further than the Blue Mountains, Australia’s sport climbing mecca.
CONFLICTED | Kneebarring on Boulders
Does kneebarring hard boulders make you stronger? We're conflicted.
What When How to Train | Ten Sleep with Taylor Fragomeni
Looking to climb on beautiful limestone cliffs full of gently overhanging crimps? Look no further than Ten Sleep, a picturesque canyon nestled high in the Bighorns.
Is Board Climbing Fixing a Problem You Don't Have?
Giving artificially low grades to climbs increases their perceived value for our training and development. The more something is mis-graded the more we naturally want to prioritize it.
REWIND | Jonathan Siegrist on Volume vs. Strength and Climbing as Training
We REWIND to this classic conversation with Jonathan about when and why to change things up in your training, and one thing that training should definitely include a whole lot of: climbing.
REWIND | Stevie Haston on Climbing 14d at 52 and Common Sense Training
We REWIND to this episode with British climbing legend, Stevie Haston.
Board Meetings | 5 Reasons Simple Training is Better with Nadya Suntay
Kris chats with our very own coach Nadya Suntay to remind us why it’s better to keep it simple when it comes to our training.
What When How to Train | Wild Iris Sport Climbing with Leif Gasch
Looking for a summer sport climbing destination? Look no further than Wild Iris, with its high elevation, low humidity, and perfectly-pocketed limestone walls.
Board Meetings | Top Training Considerations for Routesetters with Jess West
Our very own coach Jess West provides valuable insight as to how setters can smartly and safely train for their goals.
If Nothing Else...
Maybe the most understated way of getting better is to build fallback successes into your plan.
