Overcome Mental Setbacks to Optimize Climbing Performance
You’re at the crux of the climb. Your arms are pumped, legs shaking, the pain in your fingertips creeps down into your forearms and lights them on fire. Yet, all you can focus on is the endless ping-pong of mental chatter that screams all the reasons why you should give up, let go, and [...]
Shoulder Mobility…or Lack Thereof
Mobility, in general, is a joint’s ability to move through its full range of motion (ROM) - to accomplish this the structures supporting the joint (muscles, tendon, and nerves) and the joint itself need to have both the appropriate strength and flexibility.
Training With Your Cycle
Our periods tend to be the bane of our existence - cramps, intense food cravings, back pain, irregular bleeding - the list goes on and on…and on. In summary, we’ve all had days where we felt like our periods were our limiting factor - whether it was the pain, anxiety, fear, or simply inconvenience of it all.
SLAP Tears in Rock Climbers’ Shoulder
Introduction If you’re like me, you’ve gotten all too used to your painful shoulders. Pain is a given in your life now, especially when you climb. Maybe you sometimes get lucky and the pain briefly goes away. But if you climbed hard, pushed yourself hard in the gym, or maybe you didn’t [...]
Climbing as Therapy for Mental Health
After a difficult day at work, you drag yourself to go climb. You’d rather go home and sleep, but your friends expect you to join them. As you walk into the gym, the staff call out warm greetings. Lively music, cheers, and grunts of effort fill the air as you pass through in search of [...]
Physical Therapy for Climbers after Anterior Shoulder Instability Surgery
I first subluxed my shoulder almost thirty years ago during my freshman year of high school soccer. A subluxation is where the head of humerus, the ball of the upper arm bone, partially moves out of the shoulder socket and then back in. I used my shoulder carelessly to body check an opponent to [...]