We talk about the ways the gym doesn’t prepare you for climbing outside, and provide some tips on how you can address this gap.

Most of us go into a training plan or an outdoor season with an expectation, but expecting results can make us brittle when problems arise.

Does using the nutritional supplement beta-alanine improve climbing performance?

Whenever there is a training article online or some tidbit of knowledge on social media, it’s important that you consider the context.

Looking for a winter bouldering destination with endless rock, hosting classic problems of every grade? Look no further than Chattanooga.

What does science say about warming up before performance?

Objective metrics might not be the best way.

At a certain stage in climbing, the hand and foot beta you use stops being the deciding factor in whether or not you are successful.

Sam Prentice, a climber and District Hydrologist for the USDA Forest Service, talks about the alarming rate at which wildfires are destroying the Giant Sequoias.

Are chalking up and shaking out helpful? Or just habits? And is just reading a research paper’s abstract enough to go on?

Prerna’s biggest goal of all — and the one she’s certainly dedicating the most to — is to continue building an empowered community of female climbers in India.

Examining a study that collected measurements from 55 women, what does the data say about today’s female climbers?

The intermediate climber’s problem with perception starts to arise when they can’t recall all of the solutions they have attempted during the problem solving process.

If you want to get the most out of your skill work and practice, being able to remember what you tried is a great first step.

“You’re overthinking it.” But is your overthinking actually costing you the send?

Can how well we climb actually change how difficult a move looks to us?

Well-intentioned brainstorming about improving ourselves can quickly devolve into avoiding the challenge in front of us.

What easy wins are you missing out on?

Can the measurement of contributing energy systems act as climbing performance indicators?

You’ll get more value out of replicating the times that things go well than you will from dwelling on the bad days.