How to Climb 5.13
How To Climb 5.13 Our answer to what is holding you back. This 12 week program will help give you all the strength components required to go and climb 5.13 this [...]
Shoulder Stability for Climbers 1.0
Bouldering Better 1.0 Everything you need to send harder. A 4 week program to improve your shoulder stability and your climbing. Over the past five years we have gathered [...]
Reflections: Why do we climb?
Why do we climb? This is a question that is often examined only lightly, and the answers to it are perhaps inadequate to laying a ground work for the central question that I am [...]
Zak McGurk
Profile: Climber, Design Guru, Giant dog owner Injury: A really fucked leg Issue: Falling Shattered Tib Plateau, blown LCL, fractured ankle, two surgeries and 6 weeks in a wheel chair. Diagnoses: Straight [...]
Mika Hemphill
Profile: Urgent care doc, obsessive climber Injury: Ego Issue: Smallness, lack of strength at end range As physicians... we learn the parts of a human body, but there’s a difference between understanding [...]
Training: Horizontal Pulling
PLAY Which planes should you pull in? We neglect horizontal pulling. When new clients are introduced, when possible we start them with some [...]
Training: Hand Strength and Weighted Rope Climbs
Weighted Rope Climbs It seems a little over the top that I always talk about how much stuff hurts, and perhaps it is just that I am soft and weak... but climbing our [...]
Training: Fear
How do you train fear? I wrote this in 2011. It still is something I sit and ponder. How do we best tackle the world of training our heads, perhaps the item that [...]
Bachar Training: Climbing Focused Training
The Carny: I am building a bachar ladder The British Spy: That's old school training. The Carny: Exactly So I built a Bachar ladder this weekend. It is one of the old school [...]
Building Active Shoulder Flexibility
Flexibility is an expression of strength in a full range of movement. I have recently been doing a lot of work looking at rebuilding and strengthening my shoulder girdle. It seems that people [...]