(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 had…
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One Arm Pull-up: Pre-reqs
I wrote an article on one arm pull-ups a few months ago where I mentioned I might write and film some more stuff on perfecting the one arm pull-up. However as the snow has…
Some Older Backcountry Training Regimes
So another good day in the back country had me thinking that it was time to start putting up some more workouts for those out there who are in for long slogs at altitude. We…
Mixed Training: Pressing out of a lock off
It galls me that #machavok actually beat me to this one; I had experimented last season with a number of exercise variations that would help work on pressing up and above tools, but never came…
Training: Perfecting the muscle-up
Somehow in the past few years the muscle up has gained some renown as an exercise, as opposed to just a way to get up onto the rings and then do something useful. Sadly as…
The Elusive One Arm Pull-up
So I was standing around Friday being painted before a show. My phone buzzes. I ignore it. Then it buzzes again, and again. I apologize to the guy doing the painting and grab my phone…
Climbing Training: The Bachar Ladder
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 training items,…
Motivation for Training
I have run the the full range of reasons for training. I have found my motivation in appearance, in improving lifts, in simply proving to people that I was willing to train every day of…
Eclectic Training
I was recently contacted and asked if I could give someone a run down of all the training that I do. I put them off. Not because I was terrified that some deep seated secrets…
Pebble Wrestling: Bonsai Rocks
Editor’s note: This small project eventually grew into something much bigger. Mike Hopkins and I went on to finish The Alberta Bouldering Guide, taking the idea well beyond these first explorations in the Bow Valley.So…