Health ·
Proper rest: rest days, active recovery and overreaching
You get stronger between sessions, not during them. Here is how rest days, active recovery and the difference between overreaching and overtraining fit together.
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Periodisation, effort and load, recovery, movement, safety and the climbing life. Practical, and honest about what the evidence says.
Health ·
Sleep: the cheapest performance enhancer
Better sleep improves recovery, mood, focus and skill learning, and it costs nothing. Practical sleep habits for climbers of every age.
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Senior climbers: strength, balance and climbing for life
Climbing in your sixties, seventies and beyond is not only possible but valuable. How strength training, balance work and smarter recovery help older climbers keep going.
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Health ·
Life stress and training stress share one budget
Exams, deadlines, family and poor sleep all draw on the same recovery capacity as training. How to adjust your climbing when life gets heavy.
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Training ·
Deload weeks: why doing less makes you better
A planned lighter week is not lost training. It is when hard work turns into progress. How to plan and run a deload as a climber.
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Monotony and strain: why the same week every week can hurt
Training hard every day at the same level leaves no room to recover. Foster's ideas of monotony and strain explain why variety in your week matters.
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