nigelcallender on February 29th, 2008

LIMERICK, IRELAND (Irish Climbing Coaching) – We all know one…. Little Jimmy who does endless laps of the bouldering wall, hogging it for the evening and not stepping off once. He just cruises around on big holds fighting the ‘pump’ for ages at a time, all the while muttering something about ‘trying to get strong’. [...]

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nigelcallender on February 4th, 2008

LIMERICK, IRELAND (Irish Climbing Coaching) – Continuing on from our theme on ‘Motivation and Goal Setting’, we’ll move and deal with something that ties the psychological side of climbing and training (i.e. the preparation and mental side of things) with the physiological side (i.e. physical exercise). Though the two are very firmly intertwined in [...]

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