Nate reviews his 2018 in regards to goals, training, climbing, numbers, injuries, and lessons.

We live in an age of fast food bouldering. Gym boulders are turned over more frequently than ever before. You can try 2,500 different V7’s on a Moon Board before you have to move on to V8.

It’s been a wonderful pump-free five years, but that time has come to an end.

It's no secret that skills deteriorate with fatigue, particularly a complicated, high skill sport like climbing.

What good are core exercises if they don’t help your climbing?

With core exercises, you should be trying to find the most challenging positions that you can execute while maintaining perfect form.

It doesn’t matter how good an exercise or a program is, if you aren’t putting in the correct effort then you won’t get the results you’re looking for.

Learning to breathe under tension can be a game changer for your climbing.

Finding useful core exercises for climbing can be tough. Nate’s here to help.

Someone once told me that the person who needs to work on their mental game isn’t the same person who needs to be doing physical training. I’m here to argue otherwise.

My perception of what I was capable of, what could be possible, how hard I can push myself, the belief, the confidence, was all very much changed through a mere three weeks of training.

Sod’s Law states: “Anything that can go wrong, will always go wrong, with the worst possible outcome.” Turns out, Sod generally spends his time at the climbing gym.

We've been asked often who our trusted sources of information are. And we know there’s a LOT out there. So here are some of our favorites.

“Learn how to train, then train hard, then train smart. Most people will never have to go past step two.”

It's the journey that matters most. Or is it?

Good thing the outdoors doesn’t have comment cards.

It's exactly the same amount of challenging for you no matter what number anyone attaches to it.

How often do you give 100%? REALLY give 100%? I make my living coaching climbers, and I seldom see a climber try their hardest.  Myself included.

If you want to be physically prepared for rock climbing, you need to concern yourself with the following components:

Recently as I've traveled, I've heard the same question over and over while I'm foam rolling in the evening:  "Whoa!  Why didn't I think of that?"