Let me take you back, way back, to when I started climbing regularly in 2002. Lancaster, in the North of England, a student with the University Mountaineering Club. Not the most progressive of social scenes but I would argue, one that captured the zeitgeist of the time. Our climbing was all focused around outdoors. Outdoor …
Combating ‘Crag Guilt’ (Climbing Inside When You Could Be Climbing Outdoors) Read More »
You may have heard the phrase ‘it’s a speed limit, not a target’ and they’re kinda right. The limit is set as a maximum safe speed you could travel, rather than as some arbitrary number to match our speedometer. There’s a lot of numbers you could choose between, the idea is simply not to pick …
Goodhart’s Climbing Grade? Fine But How Long Could He Deadhang? Read More »
It is so tempting, when approaching physical training in climbing, to think more is, well, more. Train more, climb more, achieve more. But everything has it’s breaking point. Injury is the evil to the good of training. Pick whichever good and bad metaphors you like here, the fact is that training is great up to …
Train-Cap: A Model to Guide Training and Reduce Overuse-Injury Risk Read More »
At the turn of any year, the attentions of millions of people around the world will turn to New Year’s Resolutions. While the most popular among the wider public will remain resolutions such as losing weight or saving money, for many of our clientele this is often a useful time to set some goals for …
Being Smart? Digging Into Some Goal Setting Theory Read More »
31st December, let’s have a think: drinking, fireworks, celebrations. Kissing at midnight, time off from work, resolutions. There are plenty of traditions but it’s the last one i’m particularly going to focus on here: resolutions or, as we often know them better, goals. For the majority of people, this is a perfectly sensible and logical …
New New Years: Using Changing Clocks for Seasonal Goal Setting Read More »
