Healthy humans make healthy climbers. At Modus, this is our focus when we train our athletes. Our goal is to help athletes feel good, and perform well. Listen to today's episode to see which areas we focus on, and we highlight 3 aspects that you can take action on in your training.

Did you know grip strength is a main measure of longevity? Being able to hang for 2mins means your at the top percentile for living a longer, healthier life. We have an amazing program dedicated to this! We train you to hang for 3mins, while improving your grip strength, shoulder strength and mobility, and your gateway into hangboarding: https://www.modusathletica.com/hanging-tough

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A plateau might not be what you think it is, but no matter what the definition is, if you feel stuck where you are at right now in your climbing, this podcast will help you understand where you can make changes, and possibly even change the perspective of your performance.

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Modus Coach Katja shares how she went from wanting to break into V6 to sending many V6's and climbing V7's in about 12 weeks working with Mercedes in her program, Modus Performance Training. She'll share some of how she got there and what you can do too.

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In this podcast, we got a little personal and talked briefly about what it was like living in Germany, and recent travels Mercedes did.

Then, we dove into the two best opportunities for recovery, so that you can climb and feel your best. As we know, recovery is an important aspect of rest, but how do we do this so that it's not overwhelming? We hope to answer this in this podcast.

We outline a few ways to easily include recovery and some bonus strategies so that you can recover just as hard as you train for climbing. Topics include the importance of proper movement, auto-regulation, managing stress levels, sleep, and the benefits of protein in the diet.

We are excited to open up enrollment to Modus Performance Training! This is our amazing 8-week training course to help intermediate climbers learn to train and experience a new level of climbing. If you're looking to break through a plateau and want a world class coaching experience, join now with an early bird price! We begin February 26th. https://www.modusathletica.com/mpt

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Warming up is more than just increasing blood flow to your muscles. We cover some lesser-known topics and reasons for warming up. We even go into how to change the warm-up based on the session type, for example, climbing endurance versus climbing projecting.

If you want to get started with training, we have a webinar The Ultimate Guide To Your First Training Program that includes strength training with climbing drills. You can sign up for it right here: https://www.modusathletica.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-your-first-training-plan

And we are excited to be running our 8-week training program starting February 19th, Modus Performance Training will take care of all the details, you just show up to train!

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In this podcast, we talk about the importance of strength training for climbers, and cover in-depth the 5 fundamental movement patterns that you should focus on as a climber and human. We talk about where to start with each one and how to progress or regress the exercises to suit your needs. We also talk about whether you actually need to train your end ranges as a newer trainee and the common mistakes that occur that lead to injury.

We hope that this information arms you with the confidence to start strength training. We talked about the stick hinge, here's the link to learn the movement, a super old video, but a good one lol https://youtu.be/NPHXCwVV-LE

If you want to get started with training, we have a webinar The Ultimate Guide To Your First Training Program that includes strength training with climbing drills. You can sign up for here Right here!

And we are excited to be running our 8-week training program starting February 19th, Modus Performance Training will take care of all the details, you just show up to train!

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At Modus, we LOVE strength training, and we program it for all of our clients and members. To explain further why we do this, we decided to do a series on the importance of strength training.

In this podcast, we discussed various aspects of strength training, including its benefits for climbers and the general public, the misconceptions and myths of strength training, and the importance of consistency and learning movement patterns.

We also talked about the specific benefits and exercises for climbers. We also discussed the importance of intensity in strength training and the various movement patterns involved.

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Learn how to optimize your resting tactics and skills to stay on the wall longer. Resting on the wall is a skill; we cover the best way to start practicing this. For example, relaxing certain body parts, doing specific shake outs, focusing on specific parts of your body, focusing on breathing etc. We also talk about 1 trick you can do to change your focus on a sport climb. Want a jump start to your training?

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You don't need a fancy training program to get better at climbing. But what you do need is consistency. In this podcast, we cover tips on being more consistent as a busy human, and common pitfalls that you can avoid.

This includes things you can do to create a habit, using placeholders if you can't make it to the gym, using the 80% rule and using the mantra of "anything is better than everything."

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In this episode, we talk about everything you can expect from our climbing training membership. Training can be overwhelming, if you're new or even if you're a seasoned climber. And we know it can be hard to get answers to your training questions. That's why we created Stronger Together training membership. If you'd like to join us, you can sign up here https://www.modusathletica.com/stronger-together

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