Lattice Training Podcast

Are you obsessed with fingerboarding? Well, grab a seat and listen up as we delve into the world of beastmaking! In this episode Tom sat down with one of the founders of Beastmaker, Dan Varian, a fingerboarding expert. As you probably know Dan is no stranger to training and also has multiple FAs, repeats of v14s and hard trad routes, to name a few of his climbing achievements. 

It's tricky to know where to start in interviewing Dan, as alongide an impressive ticklist and running a successful business, Dan also manages to juggle family life as a loving husband and father. So this episode is not just for climbers trying to reach the next level in their own climbing, but also for those who manage a busy working and family life!

Topics covered:

• Why Dan first started fingerboarding.
• How Beastmaker came to be.
• What does his training look like.
• What his approach is to finding new FAs.
• How he juggles Work, family and getting outdoors.
• How impactful ageing and becoming a parent is for him.

The Lattice jingle is brought to you by Devin Dabney, music producer of the outdoor industry who also hosts the American Climbing Project.

The Lattice jingle is brought to you by Devin Dabney, music producer of the outdoor industry who also hosts the American Climbing Project.

Have you ever wondered what it takes to achieve your climbing goals? Some people would argue you need the right facilities, equipment, time, low work stress and perhaps professional support to reach such high climbing grades, however, some individuals have proven that this is not necessarily true. Regardless of your personal approach, training for your goals is a process. In speaking to high-level climbers and athletes, we can always learn another side to the coin, and perhaps find tactics to deploy into our own training. 
 
So, this is exactly what Andre Neres and Tom Randall are talking about today. Andre is a climber from Portugal who managed to climb 9a before the first commercial gym was even open in his home country while juggling busy family life and the all so common 9-5 working week! 
 
Part of his success can be narrowed down to travelling as much as possible to famous crags, in order to learn from some of the best climbers out there. As such, Andre has acquired years' worth of knowledge, so this podcast is definitely not one to miss.
 
Topics covered:

• Why Andre started climbing.
• His mindset and training structure.
• What the climbing scene is like, in Portugal.
• Advice and experience gained from his climbing trips.
•  Future Climbing Goals.

For Andre's famous R9ad video, go to the following link: https://vimeo.com/80941121

The Lattice jingle is brought to you by Devin Dabney, music producer of the outdoor industry who also hosts the American Climbing Project.

The Lattice jingle is brought to you by Devin Dabney, music producer of the outdoor industry who also hosts the American Climbing Project.

On this episode we have guest host Lattice coach Josh Hadley with Tom Merrick - who you may well know from YouTube! Tom has an amazing 8-year fitness journey in callisthenics and flexibility and is not only a great inspiration online with all of his drills and training, but is also a coach and specialist in bodyweight skills.  This kind of training and sport not only provides great strength and flexibility, but also control of your body and movement, which can be hugely transferable in climbing, whilst breaking away from traditional forms of training. 

In this episode we cover:

• How Tom became a Coach and Athlete
• Biggest flexibility mistakes
• Tips for breaking the struggling cycle and making progress
• How much flexibility do we actually need
• Risks associated with flexibility
• One-arm pull-ups and front levers

The Lattice jingle is brought to you by Devin Dabney, music producer of the outdoor industry who also hosts the American Climbing Project.

The Lattice jingle is brought to you by Devin Dabney, music producer of the outdoor industry who also hosts the American Climbing Project.

On most of our Podcasts, we would usually sit down with elite climbers or complete specialists in niche areas of our sport, but today we have something a little different and we want to talk about what it is like to be on the journey of training and focusing on your goals.

Focusing on the progress and what is actually done through training, Tom Randall sat down with Elizabeth Zang a previous client turned Lattice ambassador. She shares a lot of her journey online and isn't afraid to speak her mind through her social platforms, in a way that a lot of people can relate to.

Do not be fooled, this podcast will not just talk about the highs, but also the lows, and how consistency ultimately rewards us in the long term.

Topics covered:

1. Elizabeth's  climbing background
2. Where her climbing started
3. Expectations and reality of her first training plan
4. What you should know before starting a training plan
5. Journaling and Sharing on Social Media
6. Current and future goals

The Lattice jingle is brought to you by Devin Dabney, music producer of the outdoor industry who also hosts the American Climbing Project.

The Lattice jingle is brought to you by Devin Dabney, music producer of the outdoor industry who also hosts the American Climbing Project.

Do you want to know more about how to juggle and manage a million different things, and what the process of dealing with setbacks looks like?

Tom Randall is known for juggling a lot, however, Favia Dubyk not only works very hard hours but is also able to train at a higher level, showing us how you can do it all with the right time management. Not to mention Favia has had quite a few setbacks, including being diagnosed with lymphoma during med school and the ongoing challenges it brought. Believing in perseverance and in finding opportunities in the setbacks, Favia keeps proving that humans have much more capacity than we realise!

Being the amazing human being she is, Favia is always thinking outside the box and impressing not just her coach Josh Hadley, but everyone here at Lattice. So, we hope you enjoy today's podcast!* 

Main Topics:

1. Favia's Working life
2. Her Climbing Life
3. Managing work life with climbing
4. How and when to prioritise climbing
5. Training and outdoor climbing management
6. What to do if a setback occurs
7. Opportunities and outcomes of setbacks
8. How is her Hueco V12 project going

*Apologies if the sound is a bit off, Tom was kicked out of the main Lattice HQ office by the team. We promise we are working towards getting a better podcast studio set-up asap!

Favia's Doctor Service: https://drfavia.com/

The Lattice jingle is brought to you by Devin Dabney, music producer of the outdoor industry who also hosts the American Climbing Project.

The Lattice jingle is brought to you by Devin Dabney, music producer of the outdoor industry who also hosts the American Climbing Project.

In this podcast, Tom and Maddy sit down to talk about the role of expectations and satisfaction in climbing. Both Tom and Maddy have thought about the mindset with respect to their own climbing, and discuss their different approaches. Expectations and satisfaction are linked, and as such it is important to think about and manage our expectations, as well as what we define as a success, especially when trying projects that challenge us. Some the topics discussed in this conversation are;

• Expectations and how they play into climbing
• Expectations as a distraction and fear of falling
• The process of asking yourself honest questions
• Reflection, morphing memories, and having well informed expectations
• The link between expectation and satisfaction
• Exploring what we value in our climbing in order to get the most satisfaction
• Success without sending?
• Sending and satisfaction?

The Lattice jingle is brought to you by Devin Dabney, music producer of the outdoor industry who also hosts the American Climbing Project.

The Lattice jingle is brought to you by Devin Dabney, music producer of the outdoor industry who also hosts the American Climbing Project.

In this Podcast, Tom Randall has a chat with Adam Fiala, which is going to be quite different from anything you've heard on the Lattice Podcast before. We will have both a narrated interview and an insightful chat into the journey that our client took with us to climb his first f8b+ (5.14 USA route grade).

This comprehensive look into his training and performance will have us read out some of the stages of his journey directly from his blog. Plus some teasing out of ideas to see if Adam gives a bit more information of what it is like working with us at Lattice.

Because Adam has written such an in-depth piece of writing about his climbing, we’re going to split this interview into 2 parts.  Also, we would like to give credit to David Goggins audible book for the concept of narration with an interview, as it is an absolutely brilliant format.

Lastly, we just want to let you know about the 2 variations of Adam’s blog - there’s the full unedited version on his own website and a condensed version in 2 parts on our website. There is always so much we can learn from understanding the experience of others, so we hope you enjoy this episode.

1. Adam’s climbing and training history 
2. Common misconceptions of working with a coach 
3. Details of Performance profiling
4. Lattice's different approach to training
5. Nutrition behind Adam's training, and his fears of weight gain
6. Training programme details
7. Details on his project attempts 
8. The hard truth about training

Link to Adam's Blog: http://mujsuplik.blogspot.com/p/dancing-with-wolves-blog-series.html

The Lattice jingle is brought to you by Devin Dabney, music producer of the outdoor industry who also hosts the American Climbing Project.

The Lattice jingle is brought to you by Devin Dabney, music producer of the outdoor industry who also hosts the American Climbing Project.

Steven Dimmitt AKA ‘The Nugget Climbing Podcast’ is the founder and owner of one of the hottest (and most interesting) interview shows in the climbing industry right now. It has only been going just over 2yrs but has already had a huge impact on the climbing community and features tonnes of well-chosen and crafted interviews with pros, coaches and climbing personalities.  

His show has featured some of the great climbers of all time and clients we’ve also tested or trained ourselves - including people like Ben Moon, Hazel Findlay and Steve McClure. Steven was also a client of ours at Lattice, some years ago, but connected with us again recently with Tom Randall as a guest on his own show. 

This got us thinking, if we’ve got someone who’s spent the last 2 years interviewing some of the world’s best climbers and most interesting members of the community, then surely he’s observed some patterns and commonalities between all these individuals? 

In this episode, Tom chats to Steven about some of the guests on the show, how he pulls information from his sources and has utilised it in his own climbing or with his own clients and finally what he’s learnt from his experiences of living and working on the road whilst trying to perform. 

Find out more about Steven’s podcast here and his Patreon here.
You can also find him on Instagram here! 

The Lattice jingle is brought to you by Devin Dabney, music producer of the outdoor industry who also hosts the American Climbing Project.

The Lattice jingle is brought to you by Devin Dabney, music producer of the outdoor industry who also hosts the American Climbing Project.

Today Tom Randall talks with Anoushé Husain, who just set the Guinness World Record for the greatest vertical distance climbed on a climbing wall, one-handed, using the same hand in an hour.

Anoushé had joined Tom for a podcast in early 2021 on the topic of overcoming setbacks, as life keeps sending her curveballs. However, this athlete has just become more resilient and stronger than ever.  So today's podcast will go into the mindset and training leading to this new world record, from goal setting to the strategies she uses to overcome though times and find her own opportunities.

So get ready to get pumped with this podcast!

1. Details of what the Guinness Record involves. 
2. The initial formulation of the plan and how the process looked.
3. The key to staying on track, despite setbacks.
4. Does Anoushé set herself up for success and prepare for setbacks?
5. What did she get out of this project?
6. Advice on how to find opportunities when you get setbacks in your own journey.

The Lattice jingle is brought to you by Devin Dabney, music producer of the outdoor industry who also hosts the American Climbing Project.

The Lattice jingle is brought to you by Devin Dabney, music producer of the outdoor industry who also hosts the American Climbing Project.

After our recent interview with training legend Eric Horst, we've got another major contributor to training, performance and climbing rehab on the Lattice Podcast - this week we are chatting to Tyler Nelson, AKA Camp 4 Human Performance.

Tyler's content on Instagram really gets people thinking, as he explores new approaches to rehab and climbing performance.  His curiosity for evidence-based practice makes him an unstoppable energy for trying things others could never think of!

Since a lot of Tyler's work aligns with what we do here at Lattice, Tom Randall sat down with Tyler to get his thoughts on the following topics:

1. Which sports away from climbing does Tyler draw knowledge from, and what are the nuances of this?
2. What are climbers currently doing that concerns him injury-wise, and how can they prevent / improve this?
3. What is the future for the use of training and assessment, and the tools/gadgets/apps related to it?

The Lattice jingle is brought to you by Devin Dabney, music producer of the outdoor industry who also hosts the American Climbing Project.

The Lattice jingle is brought to you by Devin Dabney, music producer of the outdoor industry who also hosts the American Climbing Project.