Behold! The Prowess Action Plan: a training plan with a difference. Where many other plans focus on physical improvements, Prowess Action Plans are what I’ve called hollistic training plans which cover so much more.
Hollistic Training Plans including technical, tactical, phsyical and psychological exercises to help you perform at your max. What’s more, they’re not off the shelf products and include six hours of 1:1 coaching to help identify your strengths and weaknesses, work out your specific goals and incorporate exercises not only to help target weaknesses but to play to your strengths for just the right time.
The Action Plan can help you benefit in many different ways:
Attack a specific weakness in your climbing i.e. headgame
Build strength for a trip or competition
Create a periodised plan to use supercompensation for a specific redpoint attempt
Maintain strength and ability while away from climbing for a period of time
Build a recovery programme after injury or such
Price
An Action Plan costs £250 in total. Payments can be split with a £150 deposit followed by two £50 payments, or can be paid in full at the start of the Plan.
What’s included
More than you’d think. Here’s what you get for your hard earned money:
Profiling Session
A two hour coaching session to identify your strengths and weaknesses
A Goal Map
Developed specifically by Prowess, the Goal Map works out not only where we want to go but how we’re going to get there, via another two hour coaching session
Action Plan
A detailed Action Plan to cover your chosen time frame, split into five Phases, designed with you over a two hour coaching session
Action Plan Report
The detail to accompany the Action Plan. The Report will not only explain each exercise but also show when to incorporate the exercises into your sessions
Free Consultations
If you get lost in the middle of your Plan, you’re free to get in touch. Prowess will respond at least once per phase (although probably more)
Discounted Sessions
Extra sessions are available on request at a discounted rate of £25 per hour
How Does This Work in Practice?
Knowing that most of us like going climbing because we like, you know, climbing, the Prowess Action Plan is designed to be incorporated into your usual climbing sessions. So no need to give up your sessions with your friends at the wall to attack this, you can build this straight in.
Exercises typically fit inside a small portion of one climbing session. How often you try them is completely up to you; the more you do them, the more effective they will be. But the choice is all yours, meaning you have complete autonomy over your training, guided by an experienced and qualified coach.
How Long Does A Plan Last?
That’s entirely up to you. I’ve written plans for someone lasting a month as preparation for an Alpine trip and another for someone lasting around a year!
Most plans though are about a season or a school term as this seems to be a sensible break point. The most common is to begin a new plan when the clocks change and then run to the next change (so between March-October or October-March).
Sign Up Here
To sign up for an Action Plan, download the Action Plan Contract below, fill in the necessary information and email it to [email protected]
From there, you will be sent a payment link and your first session date can be arranged.
You will also be asked to fill in a Form of Understanding before your first session commences. If you wish to beat the rush, you can find it here and send it along with your contract
I’ve asked a few people who’ve gone through one of my plans what they thought. Here are some of the responses:
Though my initial plan was simply to try and maintain climbing fitness whilst in on a longer ski touring trip in Norway Pete’s knowledge, enthusiasm and genuinely holistic approach lead to it accomplishing a lot more than that.
At the end of my trip not only had a maintained my physical strength but also the tactical and mental elements that Pete and I had discussed and he built into the plan meant I was in a much better place to approach my post-trip goals.
This has had positive effects long after I finished the plan and my increased ability to tactically break down routes and therefore better handle them mentally has been a massive help in achieving my trad climbing goals so far this season.
Aled Oddy
The Action Plan system is an excellent way to build a training regime around your goals and lifestyle. It doesn’t turn every wall/crag trip into a training grind. It builds manageable learning actions into your normal climbing so that training becomes natural and fun.
Most importantly, it’s not “one size fits all”. Nobody else will get your action plan. Its unique to you and your aspirations. Mine was a longer term improvement goal and its naturally fit into my normal sessions in a really intuitive way. Aside from the written action plan itself, the practical sessions with Pete are fantastic and his approach to coaching is attentive, adaptive and always good fun.
It’s an original and honestly life changing way to build training into your regular climbing sessions. Anyone seeking to improve their climbing will benefit from a personalised Action Plan, regardless of whether you’re operating in the high 7 grades and want to push your onsight success or just starting out and want a secret weapon to really beast your progress!
Rhys Morgan
It’s been great working with Pete and putting together a plan for my progression in climbing. He has helped me highlight both conscious and subconscious strengths and weaknesses and given me a structure to follow.
It can be hard when you want to get better but your just not sure where to start, the process of mapping out goals and breaking down my climbing into technical, tactical, physical and psychological elements has helped to make my journey forward less confusing and more meaningful.
I’ve seen lots of progression in a short space of time and really enjoyed the process, so much so I’ve done it twice
Grace Alsancak-Hay
I’m not normally a fan of training plans. I climb because I enjoy it (crazy I know!) so the ideal of following a strict plan almost repulses me. This is NOT your usual training plan. Pete’s approach is refreshing with a focus on climbing, fun and flexibility.
I’ve always been one of those weird climbers who is afraid of hights so after a winter of bouldering I wanted to get my head back in game for lead climbing. This was the focus of my plan. Firstly, it worked! Without question my head game improved way more than if I had just tried to wing it myself. But the best part? It never really felt like I was doing a training plan. It allowed complete flexibility and rarely felt like I was doing anything other than just going climbing.
If you’re serious about improving your climbing but still want to maintain your passion for climbing then I’d definitely recommend Pete’s plan
Jared Humphries
Pete’s sessions are fun and engaging, and the Action Plan he developed for me has been really insightful. For example, he introduced me to the idea of tactics and I have made improvements after simply tweaking how I approach attempts on routes and problems each session.
As someone who likes to geek out on climbing movement, my appreciation of technique has deepened following his coaching on boulder problems. Our focus has been to develop a better awareness of how I move – position, placement, tempo, balance, pressure: Pete’s critical eye has taught me to maintain awareness of these qualities every time I climb, even when simply having fun with friends. And that is proving to be worth its weight in gold…
As a new trad climber, I wanted to improve my lead skills so that I can enjoy techy climbing on the sharp end. In the time since, I have onsighted my first E-graded routes (Cemetary Gates and The Quartz Icicle being my favourites so far!) and my redpoint has also jumped a grade. More importantly, I have gained trust in my ability to move well when it matters most, which has pried open the door to adventurous experiences on rock.
Thank you Prowess Coaching!
Sam George
Continuation Plan
What do we do once we’ve finished a plan and reflected? Well, in the immortal words of Steven Gerrard, we go again!
However we’ll have more information this time around and can hit the ground running from the last plan. For example, we probably won’t need to worry as much about the Profiling section.
As such, there’s an alternative to going through the entire process from scratch: the Continuation Plan.
A Continuation Plan is designed to repeat the bulk of the Action Plan, running seamlessly on from the last plan. This includes two two-hour sessions plus an hour long reflection session with the same Goal Map, Action Plan and accompanying notes.
Because they are shorter, the Continuation Plan is slightly cheaper, at £200. Please note that it is only available if begun immediately following the Reflection session.
