Cross-posted from my own personal blog
“Planning is an unnatural process – it’s much more fun to do something.
The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and desperation”
- Sir John Harvey-Jones 1924 – 2008, Industrialist
I’ve been meaning to write this one [...]
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’. [...]
LIMERICK, IRELAND (Irish Climbing Coaching) – We’re always told that we should warm-up prior to intense exercise, but why? Does it really do anything? Is it applicable to climbing? In short, good quality research on the effects of warm-up is in short supply, but yes, warming-up does improve performance.
Warming-up can take two forms, a [...]
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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