Show Notes:

Taylor’s Links:

• Tangent Climbing website: tangentclimbing.com
• Taylor’s IG: @tay_frag
• Tangent’s IG: @tangent_climbing

Episode Intro:

Dear listeners of the Female Guides Requested Podcast, happy Wednesday and welcome back to another great episode. This is your host Ting Ting from Las Vegas and our guest today is Taylor Fragomeni.

Taylor started climbing in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate NY in May of 2011 and moved to SW Montana shortly after. She has 12 years of competitive and commercial routesetting experience and a decade of instructing/guiding/coaching experience. Taylor often works with coaches, routesetters, and guides to streamline their training plans to balance the physical demands of work and play that allows sustainable long term progress. Her coaching style is highly collaborative. She sees herself as a supporter and educator who empowers each individual to become an expert on their own athletic journey.

Taylor was my movement coach and helped me to write my own training plans. It is always fun to chat about climbing with Taylor. In this episode we focused on principles of how to train for your climbing goal while you have a physical demanding job. We also talked about how to help intermediate climbers get better with their movements and keep climbing fun. People who are interested in Taylor’s service can visit her business website: Tangent Climbing or get in contact with her via social media. Links to those resources are in the “Taylor’s Links” in Show Notes.

Things We Talked about:

• Help people to train when they have physically demanding jobs
• Being flexible and how
• Prioritize rest and make high quality sessions
• Listen to your brain but sometimes not listen to your brain
• At the end of the day, it’s a giant experiment on yourself
• Find the minimum effective dose
• It’s okay to have fluctuations
• Patience, patience, patience
• Goal setting
• Load management
• Grade of a route and its RIC scale
• Take notes and keep a journal
• Make small changes to build solid foundation
• Movement coaching
• How to transfer indoor gain to outdoor
• What does Taylor do?