Neil Gresham: How Busy Climbers Break Through Plateaus (Without Training More)

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Neil Gresham discusses strategies for busy climbers to overcome training plateaus without increasing their training volume.

Join the email list to get a FREE private finger training clinic with Dr. Tyler Nelson(normally $10) www.thestruggleclimbingshow.com/strong Support the Show on PatreonGet access to all Pro Clinics, bonus episodes, and more.https://www.patreon.com/thestruggleclimbingshow - Elite climber and coach Neil Gresham explores: The thing coaches don't talk about Turning life stress into climbing fuel How he trained Tim Emmett to send 14d / 9a The most impactful training modalities Why it’s good that most of us don’t train like pros His low inflammation nutritional breakthrough Technique pitfalls and fixes Why having kids can level up our climbing Chris Sharma‘s winning mindset Work with Neil: https://www.neilgresham.com/ Neil's nutrition guide: https://www.neilgresham.com/nutrition-guide Neil's technique masterclass: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBCRwO0FN0zMTqSfFW9SMbK2tncTrI25r&si=Se3MPb8R8gFihL9z - BIG THANKS TO THE AMAZING SPONSORS OF THE STRUGGLE WHO LOVE ROCK CLIMBING AS MUCH AS YOU DO: PhysiVantage: the official climbing-nutrition sponsor of The Struggle. Train harder, recover faster, and feel better than ever. I love all their stuff! Use code STRUGGLE15 at checkout for 15%…

People in this episode

Host: Ryan Devlin

Guest: Neil Gresham

Topics covered

• climbing training
• nutrition
• mental strategies
• performance improvement
• coaching techniques
• climbing plateaus

Keywords

• climbing
• training plateaus
• nutrition
• coaching
• performance
• mental strategies
• inflammation
• technique

Sponsors

PhysiVantage, Arc’teryx

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