The Power Company Climbing Podcast
Sports:Wilderness
I’m actually not a big fan of the term “drills”, but I don’t have a better word for it. I don’t like it for several reasons:
One, because we aren’t “drilling” anything in. Despite the popular belief, that’s not actually how learning works. Performance, maybe, but not learning. And in my book, these “drills” are for learning.
Two, there are just too many coaches who assume that harder equals better. They just keep stacking difficulties onto their drills as if those difficulties are all going to make you better at climbing. Now we see climbers bouncing one-legged on a Bosu Ball balanced on a slackline while blindfolded and miming rose moves because…
WHY?
Yeah, I don’t know either. And today, we’re going to talk about why that might not be the best solution.
In our Coaching for Mastery course, we go DEEP into how coaches and climbers can create an effective practice. That’s literally what the entire course is about. The research, the theories, my experience, and how you can practically apply it.
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Brown Girls Climb | A Starting Point
BOARD MEETINGS | Granny Shot: Do You Follow the Crowd?
BOARD MEETINGS | Top 5 Ways to Salvage a Season
Listener Questions | Projecting, Tactics, and Training for Climbing After 40
Lockdown | Motivated or Not, with Special Guests
BOARD MEETINGS | The Art of Learning Climbing
Listener Questions | How to Know When to Get Better vs. Get Stronger?
BOARD MEETINGS | Why Bouldering May Not Help Your Sport Climbing
BOARD MEETINGS | Popular Climbing Trends We Like
BOARD MEETINGS | Why Am I Still Getting Pumped?
Matt Fultz | A New Breed
Brittany Leavitt | Listen + Teach
BOARD MEETINGS | Top 5 Reasons You Abandon the Training Plan
Yves Gravelle | For the Love of Training
Troy Fauteux | Try Harder
BOARD MEETINGS | Art of the Side Goal
Dr. Favia Dubyk | Survive to Thrive
Dr. Natasha Barnes | Pain Science for Climbers
Alex Megos & Ken Etzel | Rotpunkt
BOARD MEETINGS | Thanks A Milli
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