Last month I talked about the benefits of aerobic training, how it increases your capacity to do more work, recovers muscles from hard training days, and it can teach you how to regulate your breathing and heart rate while climbing. Because we are rock climbers, and...
Do you ever find yourself climbing up a route and you reach the crux, you make a few difficult moves and you start to huff and puff, and ultimately your heavy breathing leaves you falling off the route? Do you find yourself huffing and puffing on the approach to your...
I have a lot of clients and members who ask me about what to do on rest days, and how many days they should be climbing. In my personal opinion, climbers will climb too much at a high intensity on a regular basis, and disregard the norm of rest and exercise science in...
How to optimize your recovery before your next climbing session. If you are one who is training a ton this winter as well as trying to ski or enjoy winter sports on the weekends, you probably aren’t giving enough attention to your recovery. The more efficient...
It’s a great time to reflect on last year and see where we can improve. Often, most people will make goals or resolutions. The thing is, we often overlook how we will achieve these goals. I think in general, we all want to be a better version of ourselves, a...
By Mercedes Pollmeier Recently, climbers have been coming to me with aches and pains from recently starting up climbing again. And most of them have gone from doing nothing to doing too much all at once. One of the more common injuries that seems to be popping up...
