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A Series of 4 Recorded Presentations on How to Increase Overall Fitness for Routes or Boulders
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Experience a Fitness Breakthrough
You might know Coach Alex Stiger for her workshops that emphasize skills, drills, technique, etc - things that make us better climbers. But in this Fitness Breakthrough Series, you'll see the personal trainer in Alex coming out in full force to help you become a fitter climber.
In other sports that are more seasonal, athletes become adept at cycling in and out of being "fit" for their sport, but in climbing, we don't have to do that because we can always go to the gym, all year round. And a lot of us just end up doing the same things, all the time, and don't really progress in our climbing fitness.
We just plateau.
Understanding how to assess and change your fitness levels will help you peak, just like seasonal athletes do all the time. It'll also help you know when to dial things back in order to give your body and mind a break from it all.
This series is going to teach you how to assess where your fitness is currently and teach you how to have meaningful training sessions in order for you to systematically increase your overall fitness.
What is Climbing Fitness?
Climbing "fitness" is what we all want when we're on a climb and we don't feel strong enough to do it. It's what we want when we're feeling fatigued in a session after doing just a couple climbs.
When your fitness is high, you can stay on the wall for longer. You can...
• Do more moves
• Do more boulders in a session
• Do more routes in a session
• Push through pump more easily
• Not feel like you're hitting a wall when you're just getting started
I highly recommend this course. I've been climbing for more than 30 years and yet Alex's course taught me so much I didn't know about building a training program, getting strong and preventing injury.
I learned the importance of having clear intentions for each session, focusing on quality not quantity, how to listen to my body in a systematic way, how not to overdo it, and how to make safe and measurable progress in a training plan.
For someone who has had a lot of injuries and more psyche than sense at times, this was just what I needed. I now feel confident building up my training in a steady way, knowing that over time, I'll reach my goals
Participant in Alex's Fitness Breakthrough Series
Fitness breakthrough Series details
4 Recorded Zoom Calls
This is a deep-dive learning experience via recorded Zoom calls with Coach Alex Stiger. There will be four 90-minute calls covering different important topics that will help you increase your climbing fitness and assess yourself throughout the year.
In these calls you can expect a blend of on-the-wall workouts and off-the-wall strength training sessions presented to you in the form of presentations, videos, and Alex's personal experience with her clients and her own climbing.
Weekly Homework Assignments at the Gym
At the end of each zoom call, Alex will give you specific instructions on what you should do the following week to implement the tools into your own climbing and training.
All Calls Recorded
You do not have to attend the zoom calls as the recordings of all of them are in an online portal that you'll get access to immediately after purchase.
BONUS
EXTRA Q&A CALL
Alex held an extra zoom call at the end to get final questions answered from the first cohort of this course. This is included in your recordings in your course portal.
4-Week Outline
Each week will include a 90-minute presentation and concrete homework assignments to be done during the following week.
Week 1: Building a Base
Efficient, effective workouts that don't take hours to do. Learn 12 of Alex's favorite training circuits and sessions (4 for routes, 4 for boulders, 4 for boards).
Week 2: Train Like an Athlete
Non-climbing aerobic and strength workouts, mobility routines, effective rest strategies, and how to recover properly.
Week 3: Understanding Progressions
How to ramp up volume and intensity, what effort levels to aim for, how to avoid burnout, injury, and plateau, and how to assess your current fitness levels.
Week 4: Building Out Your Own Training Program
Guided 6-week training plan build-out with Alex as your guide.
You’ll Learn…
What the outcome of your sessions will be
No more confusion about what you should be doing in your climbing sessions. No more wondering, "Did I even do anything useful for the last 3 hours?"
How to have fun while training
Training and climbing don't have to be two different things! It can feel like FUN to train. You'll learn how to make your climbing sessions into valuable fitness training sessions.
It's not as hard as you think to gain fitness
Less is more! You don’t need to feel absolutely exhausted to get the best workout possible, and it doesn't have to take that much time.
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 climber needs to progress and accomplish their goals. The sessions, circuits, and strength training methods you'll learn in this series are exactly what Alex uses in her own climbing and training to achieve high levels of climbing success every year.
Who This is for
This 4-part presentation series is for all climbers wanting to be fitter in their route climbing or their bouldering.
1. Any level of climber who often feels frustrated that they’re not making more progress in their sessions and they’re not improving their grades.
2. Any level of climber who wants to feel really successful in their upcoming outdoor spring/summer season.
3. People who feel like they’re doing too little or too much and are in and out of injuries. In other words, they're doing a lot when they’re inspired and healthy and doing nothing when they’re not.
4. People who want to have the knowledge of how to become a better climber and have the capacity to show up and do the work, but don’t want to have to learn a bunch of new skills. This is just physiologically about leveling up overall strength and endurance/capacity.
5. People who want to know how to turn up the dial or turn down the dial depending on their seasonal requirements.
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 yourself with.
- You will feel like you know what direction to take to help you break out of your plateau so you no longer feel lost, waiting for something magic to happen in your climbing.
- You will be given specific circuits and workouts to complete on a regular basis that are guaranteed to help you improve your fitness levels so you can climb harder and for longer.
I learned so much from the Fitness Breakthrough Series. Having climbed about 7 years, I recently commissioned a couple training plans and then wrote my own, but often felt bored with what I was doing at the gym.
I appreciate how Alex approaches fitness building in a creative and adaptable manner. I feel like this course freed me from rigid ideas that were keeping me from staying motivated. It also provided solid general frameworks for me to grow over the years. It looks like Alex put a lot of thought, energy, and experience into building this course, and she cares deeply about responding to the curiosity and psyche of the participants.
Alex taught us how to assess our own climbing movement, identify areas of improvement, and offered a system for making changes to how we move on terrain that challenge us.
She also encouraged me and my fellow course-mates from around the world to learn from and encourage one another.
Participant in Alex's Fitness Breakthrough Series
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 Fitness Breakthrough Series works out for you, simply request a full refund. No questions asked.