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Training for me has been an interesting learning curve. Whether rock climbing ice climbing or mixed climbing, my view on training was balls to the wall until you puked...every time. There wasn't much direction other than i figured if i wasn't pushing hard enough, if it didn't hurt, obviously i wasn't training hard enough. You weren't a man if you couldn't handle the pain and keep going. Well, let me tell ya...this wasn't the most efficient form of training as injury began to take over my determination to keep "pushing". After getting a lot of insight and constructive critisism/direction...things began to shape up. Long story short, working with a coach (whom has a lot of experience in this field) has helped me to understand my climbing more as well as developed a sense of understanding in the training realm. Things don't hurt anymore (well...as much) and my climbing seems to be progressing. Cool.


The mixed and ice season is on now (in the rockies) and i'm totally psyched...now. It was a hard transition from having such a fun rock season and then changing gears into cold wet/early morning climbing. It's all good, but for me, never an easy transfer. There's just something about lazy mornings in hot weather before going rock climbing with no shirt on. It's just easier. But, that being said, the adventure of getting up before daylight, walking into the snowy mountains and swinging your tools into giant icicles...that's pretty wicked all in all. This year has definitely been a more focused year. With my aspirations for various mixed climbing comps, i've been traininig a lot. And with this dedicated training, i haven't gotten out on much ice yet. It's cool, but i'm looking forward to swinging my tools instead of carefully placing them. I guess that's the difference between comp climbing and just climbing. When you're into comp climbing your focus tends to be mainstreamed into training very specifically...but what that does is typically takes you away from other aspects of climbing, simply put - climbing for fun. I suppose it's all relative to how seriously and how indepth you take your comp climbing. I think where i'm at; wanting to comp climb, train hard...stay focused...I also need to keep in mind that i love all aspects of climbing and that i don't want to be limited to just one style, more so just training for that one style. It's a weird mind set to be in, but i'm stoked none the less.

Here's a video i made in my backyard gym. It's just for fun and i'm no cinematographer. My buddy from High Country Sports gave me a helmet pro cam to try out. So, with it i put together a short showing some training in my gym. A lot of the training exercises i do are inspired by the direction of someone who has been coaching me for the past few months (thanks Will).