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 [...]
Reflections: Authenticity
Failure is a part of training. Failure is a part of training. Not flailing attempts at mediocrity, but legitimate work that pushes a person to the limits of their ability. Every skill based [...]
Reflections: What is the point?
I have found myself stuck on a topic for over two weeks now, the end result being that while there have been some videos done and some writing compiled the site has remained untouched. [...]
Training: Zercher Deadlift
PLAY Prayers are all that get these up. So I am back on a hunt for a triple body weight dead lift. At [...]
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 [...]
Erika Stark
Profile: Power lifter, climber, bad ass. Injury: Back, head. Issue: Stronger than she has yet to realize. Ian's an asshole. He's made me cry and swear and bleed and cry some more. But [...]
Climbing Training
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Fixing the Muscle Up: Wrist Strength
A muscle-up is a transition. Somehow a muscle-up went from being the way a gymnast got on top of the rings, to becoming an exercise that everyone in a gym seemingly wants [...]
(p)Rehab: The Issue of Thumbs
I started working with a client a couple of months ago who had (what seems to be more and more common) extremely limiting hand pain. The initial success in dealing with pain that [...]