Reflections: Why do we climb?
Why do we climb? This is a question that is often examined only lightly, and the answers to it are perhaps inadequate to laying a ground work for the central question that I am [...]
Zak McGurk
Profile: Climber, Design Guru, Giant dog owner Injury: A really fucked leg Issue: Falling Shattered Tib Plateau, blown LCL, fractured ankle, two surgeries and 6 weeks in a wheel chair. Diagnoses: Straight [...]
Mika Hemphill
Profile: Urgent care doc, obsessive climber Injury: Ego Issue: Smallness, lack of strength at end range As physicians... we learn the parts of a human body, but there’s a difference between understanding [...]
Training: Horizontal Pulling
PLAY Which planes should you pull in? We neglect horizontal pulling. When new clients are introduced, when possible we start them with some [...]
Training: Hand Strength and Weighted Rope Climbs
Weighted Rope Climbs It seems a little over the top that I always talk about how much stuff hurts, and perhaps it is just that I am soft and weak... but climbing our [...]
Training: Fear
How do you train fear? I wrote this in 2011. It still is something I sit and ponder. How do we best tackle the world of training our heads, perhaps the item that [...]
Bachar Training: Climbing Focused Training
The Carny: I am building a bachar ladder The British Spy: That's old school training. The Carny: Exactly So I built a Bachar ladder this weekend. It is one of the old school [...]
Building Active Shoulder Flexibility
Flexibility is an expression of strength in a full range of movement. I have recently been doing a lot of work looking at rebuilding and strengthening my shoulder girdle. It seems that people [...]
(p)Rehab: Stretching the Shoulder Girdle
Passive Stretching after Tissue Releae I commented a while ago on the notion that you need to do some passive stretching after doing soft tissue work on the musculature of the shoulder girdle. [...]
Bachar Training: Static Strength and Lock Offs
Ladder Training: The Basics Again from the archives. June 26th, 2012. These ladders are rad. So about a week ago [Or two or three] I posted an article on my new [...]