Board Meetings | How to Tell if Your Training Worked
Objective metrics might not be the best way.
Not All Pyramids Are Built the Same
Improvement comes from challenges, not from the number they are given. If you focus on being challenged and trying hard, then the numbers will follow.
How to Continue Making Progress After 20 Years of Climbing, by Chad Volk
I don’t have much experience with making rock climbing feel easy. What I do have experience with is transforming myself from a lover of 5.10 trad climbs to a sender of 5.13 sport climbs.
The Once and Future Sport Climber: Part One
It’s been a wonderful pump-free five years, but that time has come to an end.
3 Reasons Why Soft Grades Matter
It's exactly the same amount of challenging for you no matter what number anyone attaches to it.
Process Journal
Our Process Journal is the simplest way to ensure that your climbing practice is producing the results that you're looking for.
Episode 19: Board Meetings | Top 3 Things We've Changed Our Minds About
Fact is, if you still believe all of the same things you believed last year, then you're probably fucking up.
Episode 18: V11 to 5.11 with Carrie Cooper, DPT
Boulderer, mom, and physical therapist Carrie Cooper talks process, how she deals with the ego, and what she's learning.
Episode 17: Process vs. Goal Based Motivation with Arno Ilgner
I sit down with Arno Ilgner to discuss the differences between being motivated by goals and being motivated by process.
Smoke Signals: Proof of Progression Isn't Always in the Numbers.
Often times, the numbers don't quite reflect what I know to be the truth.
If You Aren't Making Progress, You're Probably Making Excuses.
I hear them coming from every corner of the gym… excuses.