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Monthly Archives: November 2008
Redpointing, Onsighting and pre-performance routines
As I mentioned in a previous blog, on the key mental skills of elite performers, one of those skills is developing a pre-performance routine. Now most people will already have developed a routine that works for them, however here we … Continue reading
Overload
If you want to improve your climbing then one thing you really need to consider in your training programme is overload. In that simply going to the climbing wall and doing the same session week in week out, simply isn’t … Continue reading
The Hottest Training Tip this winter?
A Season Ticket! That’s right if you want a tip for how to improve your climbing this winter, then I can’t recommend anything more than getting a season ticket to your local climbing wall. What it means is that say … Continue reading
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Do you Dream of White Horses or is it just a Goal?
We all have a dream, whether its to scale the 3000ft vertical cliffs of El Capitan or something closer to home like traverse across ‘A Dream of White Horses’ at Goagrth. Whatever you dream is there are various strategies to … Continue reading
Learning Good Technique or Unlearning Bad?
Often people who want to be coached want to improve their technique, which in my mind is often the best way to make rapid improvements, as improving how you climb will improve your grade and confidence without the need for … Continue reading
Mental Skills: Making a Champion
There has been much research into what not only makes a good athlete but what makes Champion’s stand out from the crowd. Often they have looked at the amount of physical practice and training, finding that despite equal amounts, natural … Continue reading
Posted in anxiety, Article, champion, Climbing, Coaching, Coaching skills, Confidence, doping in sport, Effective practice, fear, Focus, goal setting, Goals, How to Climb Harder, imagery, imagery scripts, Long term athlete development, mental skills, MSc Applied Sport Science, overload, periodisation, PETTLEP, pre-performance routines, relaxation, Rock Climbing, Rope skills, visualisation
Tagged Coaching, coaching skills, Imagery, Leader Falls, mental skills, Motivation, Performance routines, Training
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Imagery – A new Outlook for Climbing
Typically imagery and climbing has been basic at is very best, often it has been misleading and based assumption brought from other sports and disciplines. One thing my MSc has shown me is that imagery is not a simple thing, … Continue reading
Posted in Climbing, Coaching, imagery, mental skills, PETTLEP, visualisation
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How Confidence Can Improve Your Performance
Climbing is primarily a head game, admitting that you are in it for that moment of thrilling panic, as your breathe deepens and you face the only option, commit or fall. Crossing that line in the sand and facing life … Continue reading
Posted in Climbing, Coaching, Coaching skills, Confidence, Effective practice, fear, mental skills, Self-belief, self-efficacy
Tagged Coaching, Focusing on success, mental skills, Training
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Online Coaching?
For many people getting a good climbing coach is difficult, if you live too far away from the large urban areas and especially London, then a coach rather than an instructor can be hard to find. In order to help … Continue reading
The Stretching Debate
Recently someone posted this article on UKC, printed in the New York Times, now you should instantly question the scientific validity of a journalist perspective on what in all likelihood is a review of a review of stretching. Whilst I … Continue reading
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