Board Meetings | Should Climbers Generalize or Specialize?
When should you be growing your skill set and when should you be focused on one aspect of it?
Taped Tips | Difficulties Should Be Desirable
The difficulties of a task should be such that they help the learner translate the skill to performance.
Taped Tips | I Said What I S.A.I.D.
We think we know exactly what climbing looks like. We’ve zeroed in on the details. And in this case, it really isn’t those details that matter.
A Lot of Words About Fingers
Nate provides more depth to the reasoning behind many common finger training methods.
Episodes 83-87: Board Meetings | Common Sense vs. Common Practice
Five days. Five episodes. One theme. Common sense isn't always common practice.
ATTACKtics: The Warm Up.
More important than your coffee in the morning - ok, maybe not quite that important - is how you warm up.
Reader Question: Rest Times, Part II
Rob asks: When performing 4x4's or any type of interval training I always question what my rest interval should be?
Specificity Within Training.
In a sport as complex as climbing, can you even begin to train simply? You can, but you have to boil it down to specifics.
Reader Questions: New Place, New Plan. Keep it Personal.
Another reader writes in with questions to be answered.
He SAID, She SAID.
The SAID Principle is one of the simplest, most important concepts in sports training.