Monthly Archives: February 2009

Mountain Leader Training: Environment Today

Alpine Club Moss – A relic of natures evolution, club moss were the first trees Well I know that this is a climbing coaching blog however due to my work from time to time I do a few post that … Continue reading

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Meeting with the Editor

Well I went and caught up with Franco Ferrero at Pesda Press today, to see where we are up to with my coaching book. After giving them a few images that looked good for the cover I was blown away … Continue reading

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Coaching Workshop for Instructors

Well tonight I delivered a evening coaching workshop for instructor from the Beacon Climbing Centre mainly aimed at showing these instructor that they already use ‘coaching behaviours’, and that with a little thought they can hopefully start focusing on its … Continue reading

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Imagery Scripts: Climbing Content

Well I introduced the concept of scripts for imagery in previous post, and thought I would elaborate the concept to allow you to develop a script for a boulder problem that you can climb in overlapping sections but not yet … Continue reading

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Imagery Scripts: A practical Introduction

Imagery Scripts are under used in climbing mainly because very few people have an idea about what an imagery script is and what information should be in them. Again like all things to do with imagery when you look into … Continue reading

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Training for Aerobic Endurance

When I refer to aerobic endurance I am talking about our ability to keep climbing for a long period at an intensity where we don’t get pumped. Whilst this might not seem that appropriate if we want to improve the … Continue reading

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Improving Motivation

Well most of the time I adopt a do as I do rather than a do as I say approach to coaching and climbing. Until August last year I was a smoker, who only got out of breath when I … Continue reading

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Cross Training for Climbing Fitness

The winner of the Snowdon Race storming past Cloggy! Whilst in an ideal world we would train by climbing every single day , the fact remains that we are not in an ideal world. So at times we have to … Continue reading

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A life in the Vertical

Wolfgang Gullich soloing Seperate Reality in Yosemite Now for those of you who don’t know I have another blog that I tend to rant on, as well as put some articles and mini-topos on. When I was dreaming up name … Continue reading

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