Episode #52 - 10 Tips for Pursuing Maximum Climbing Performance
Legendary climber, Wolfgang Gullich, famously said that "the brain is the most important muscle for climbing". Sure, strong fingers are important--but there are many strong-fingered climbers who never...
4 Sep 202042min
Episode #51 - Tips to Climb Your Best on Weekend Outings or a Road Trip
You've been dreaming about your boulder project, dream route, or road trip. You've trained smart and hard. Your psych is high. You're ready to crush! So, how can you best transition from gym to outdoo...
10 Aug 20201h 1min
Podcast #50: 8 Superpowers of the Very Best Climbers
What makes great climbers great? What are the distinct and rare character traits that make climbers like Tommy Caldwell, Alex Honnold, Margo Hayes, Adam Ondra, and Alex Megos (I call this group "CHHOM...
7 Juli 202053min
Episode #49: How To Improve Your Concentration and Focus
As physical as climbing is, it is even more mental. Being technically sound and physically strong is not enough to navigate a high-ball boulder problem, personal-best redpoint, intimidating big wall, ...
3 Juni 202037min
Episode #48; Strategies for Success Despite Hardship and Adversity
Climbers are drawn to the challenges and potential adversity of the steep. Great climbers embrace grand challenges--and almost certain adversity--in achieving hard and rare accomplishments. This podca...
11 Maj 202051min
Episode #47 - Training Café: Energy System Training and more!
These are crazy times we're living through with the COVID crisis. Most of us are self-quarantined...left to train on a home wall, hangboard, and whatever else we can kludge together. My personal initi...
20 Apr 202047min
Episode #46 - COVID-19 "Climbing Closedown"
An often-used proverbial phrase, to encourage optimism and proactive action in the face of adversity or misfortune, is to "make lemonade out of lemons." In this podcast, Eric Hörst presents a hopeful ...
24 Mars 202057min
Episode #45 - Ask Coach Horst (Training for Climbing Questions Answered)
In this episode of Ask Coach Hörst...Eric answers 9 wide-ranging questions from listeners. Some of the topics covered are...hangboard training, diagnosing a finger injury, autoregulation use in compet...
10 Mars 202058min
