5.11
Breakthrough
A 5-Week Course to Help You Break into Climbing 5.11
Starts January 16th
This is a 5-week journey with Coach Alex Stiger to help you break into and regularly send 5.11's. If you are a 5.10 climber (or below), this course will give you everything you need to improve your technique, tactics, and strength.
- Alex will teach you movement principles that you can apply to every climb you get on.
- She'll teach you how to strength train at an appropriate level for your climbing abilities.
- She'll teach you skills and drills you can implement in your climbing sessions and projects.
- And she'll be available to you as your coach through the entire month.
5.11 breakthrough details
5 Zoom Calls
There will be 4 live Zoom calls--one per week--going over all the information. Those will all be recorded and placed in your online portal.
There is also 1 dedicated Q&A session at the end.
This is a deep-dive learning experience with Coach Alex Stiger. There will be four 90-minute calls covering different important topics that will help you break through to climbing 5.11.
In these calls you can expect a blend of skill building, technique improvement, strength training suggestions, climbing drills, projecting tactics, and mindset practice, presented to you in the form of presentations, videos, and Alex's personal experience with her clients and her own climbing.
Dates and Times
Call 1: January 16th at 6-7:30pm MST
Call 2: January 23rd at 6-7:30pm MST
Call 3: January 30th at 6-7:30pm MST
Call 4: February 6th at 6-7:30pm MST
Bonus Q&A: February 13th at 6-7:30pm MST
You will receive zoom access details immediately after sign-up.
Weekly Homework Assignments
At the end of each Zoom call, Alex will give you homework to do in your climbing sessions that week to help solidify the information she provided.
Online Course
Alex will provide video instruction and other resources in an online portal that you'll have access to forever. These will include skills and drills, mindset advice, strength training, and all kinds of other important info.
Bonus Coaching Call with Participant
Alex will do a coaching call with a participant to help them assess their climbing and figure out how to work on their weaknesses, what movement patterns they can change, and how to improve their climbing mindset. This will be available in your online course.
Continuous Support from Alex and the Group
You'll be invited to join a Slack channel (group chat) where you can ask Alex any questions you have, get advice from the other participants, and submit videos of you climbing for Alex to analyze.
You'll get camaraderie and personal coaching from the Slack channel, but even if you don't want to participate in the group, you'll be able to learn from other people's questions that Alex answers throughout.
Outline of Weekly Presentations
All calls will be recorded so you do not have to attend them live if you can't fit it into your schedule.
I learned a lot from Alex's 5.12 Breakthrough Series Workshop. Applying the learning, I was able to break through on my projects and even got to send hard routes outdoors. Now I can go back to training with purpose and structure thanks to Alex!
Participant in Alex's First 5.12 Breakthrough Cohort
Neely Quinn climbing on 5.11 at the Pier in Red Rock
You’ll Learn…
Movement Principles
How to use open hips, closed hips, heel hooks, clipping, and how to climb relaxed and composed.
How to Avoid the Biggest 5.10 Climber Mistakes
This is the time when people start engraining bad habits and patterns. Stop that in its tracks now.
How to Coach Yourself
Learn how a coach looks at progressing through climbing levels and see how to apply that way of thinking to your own climbing
Fabulous course! Alex really changed my mindset around climbing harder and gave super specific tips and individualized feedback. I was very impressed with both the content and logistical organization.
Participant in Alex's First 5.12 Breakthrough Cohort
Your instructor
Coach Alex Stiger
Alex Stiger is a dedicated sport climber and boulderer who lives in Longmont, Colorado. She’s sent up to 5.14a and V10. She is a Certified Personal Trainer, Sports Performance Coach, and TRX certified.
Alex combines Personal Training, Performance Coaching, and over 15 years of climbing experience to dive into what each client needs to progress and accomplish their goals. While Alex loves to work with any and all climbers who have strong goals, she specializes in breaking through plateaus, injury prevention, and shorter climbers.
Who This Course is for
This 4-part presentation series is for all climbers wanting to progress to climbing 5.11's and climb them reliably.
The material discussed will be geared towards 5.10 (and below) climbers wanting to make the breakthrough, but will still be very educational for all levels of climbers.
And even if you've climbed one or two 5.11's and you want to do more--and climb the grade more consistently--this series is still great.
This is not for you if you are consistently climbing mid 5.11's and up!
I’ve been climbing for 10 years and felt I had been in a plateau for the majority of it. Climbing has always been something I really enjoyed, but I never pushed myself the way I was taught to in this course. It completely changed my psyche and approach!
Using tactics and logic (not strength or technique), this class gave me the tools to to show up for each session with the structure I greatly needed. I was able to identify, address, and improve my two biggest fears (fear of failing and falling).
Before the class was even finished, I onsighted my first 11a and redpointed my first 11b. Since then, I’ve sent 11c and 11d! These successes were things I truly thought I’d never do. I realized strength wasn’t holding me back, it was all about adjusting my attitude and adding a bit of structure to my training. I’ve left feeling so much more confident, prepared, and excited to keep on this climbing path!
Thank you mucho!
Shira, Participant in 1st 5.12 Breakthrough Cohort
How this Will improve your climbing
- You will have increased motivation for your climbing sessions! This is because you'll have focus points to take to the gym with you to explore and learn about.
- You will feel like you know what direction to take to help you break into climbing 5.11's so you are no longer feeling lost and waiting for something magic to happen in your climbing.
- You will be given specific exercises and drills to complete on a regular basis that are guaranteed to help you improve in strength and skill development.
The video feedback from Alex was so worth it. I have never worked with a coach before but I can totally see myself hiring Alex in the future for video critiques and coaching direction in the future. I am going to see how much independent work and mastery progress I can integrate on my own from the class and then go from there with 1:1 coaching.
This 5.12 breakthrough series also really opened my eyes to how delightful discussing beta, technique, warm-ups, and training can really be. I have been so used to a very particular strength-based style of talking about climbing and trying hard that making progress really always seemed like a matter of strength and "just do it".
This class really helped me bring a much more open yet disciplined attitude to the process of training. Alex's anecdotes and first person stories about her own climbing experiences were really useful to hear as well.
I feel super motivated!
Participant in Alex's First 5.12 Breakthrough Cohort
100% Satisfaction Guaranteed
We're so confident that this will help you that we are giving you a no-risk guarantee. If you don’t feel like this 5.11 Breakthrough works out for you, simply request a full refund. No questions asked.
What Happens After You Enroll?
As soon as you purchase the 5.11 Breakthrough, you will receive an email that contains access to the online course and the zoom details to join the 5 live calls.
The first call is on Tuesday, January 16th at 6-7:30pm MST. All you'll need to bring to each weekly class is yourself and an open mind.
After the first class, you'll get access to the Slack channel where you'll be able to ask Alex and the group questions and share your own experiences and climbing videos.
In May I led my first ever gym 5.12. I led it clean on my second attempt and have repeated it too. With the first attempt approached with no pressure, using holds off-route for safe clips and getting lowered back down to puzzle moves and consider options.
Stuff that I thought was helpful from the class... Incorporating a non-climbing warm-up has been incredibly helpful! Also, your how to structure a climbing session was very useful.