Coaching is really great fun. I don’t have experience coaching other sports but I’m guessing climbing must be pretty interesting as sports g...

Brendan asks… “I've just read your reply to an OCC question about how drinking coffee affects endurance training. Something I've w...

Following on from my last post about setting up the conditions to get to work on your climbing, and enjoyment of it, here is a practical one...

Freedom > success (not the other way round) Planning your training starts with organising your time to allow time and space to improve at...

Nik asks… is there any way of decreasing the production of lactic acid? I’ve heard that drinking a lot of water while doing a long climbing ...

I've seen that my posts on A2 pulley injuries on my sites are really popular and get loads of feedback and extra questions. During next ...

Some of you will know that I recently wrote an e-book called ‘How to Climb Hard Trad’. I spent a long time on it trying to explain clearly...

Following on from my last post you can see that the raw basics of how to plan a spell of training are pretty simple. Here are some common wa...

‘Periodisation’, or the rather fancy term for planning your training over days, weeks or even years is something lots of folk ask me about. ...

Last time I checked, I could do 24 pull-ups on a bar. A tiny amount for a climber at my grade. Fortunately, being super strong at one stren...