[Tom: Welcome to a special guest blog! We work with two climbers over in Germany, Mischa Hawker-Yates and Cora Schubert, who happen to go out together and also climb/train together! When we they came over to the UK for the Women’s Training Symposium we thought it would be a great chance to have Mischa observe […]
CLIMBING GOALS! Many of us will be thinking about our goals for this coming year (New Year’s Day recovery always does that!) and we wanted to give you a bit of a guide on how to do this effectively. We get to watch many goals chased, achieved and sometimes fallen-short of each year. Naturally, we […]
Lattice and The Beta Angel Project are at it again! This time, we decided to chat with Taylor about the research of climbing efficiency. This will be a topic that is certainly distinct from our past collaborations which involved the hard numbers and precise methods of finger strength and RFD (Rate of Force Production, or […]
After the great feedback we received from our recent community discussion on the Rate of Force Development (i.e. contact strength) with Taylor Reed from The Beta Angel Project, we thought we should do another one! This time we wanted to discuss a specific piece of research from the most extensive finger strength researcher in the […]
We thought it’d be cool to give a bit of an insight into what it’s like as a Lattice Board assessor and how our team operate. Lots of people know about the data, the rationale for testing and what kind of results we see out the other end but the faces behind the data collection […]
Recently we’ve been in touch with Taylor at the Beta Angel Project about a cross-collaboration. We’d noticed that he’s equally as psyched about climbing research as we are! To introduce you to his work we’re going to start on a very popular topic: the rate of force development in the fingers, or what is commonly thought […]
In 2009, I had the idea that I could become one of the world’s best offwidth climbers just by building and training on wide crack replicas in my cellar. I didn’t have any hard climbing outside to pursue or learn my craft on, so I rationalised that wooden versions of my dream routes would be the […]
Firstly Alice, I want to say a massive congratulations for breaking into the 5.14 club! I think you’ve got to be really proud of the hard work and consistency that you’ve put in and that it’s all been despite an injury set back along the way – impressive! Certainly it’s been inspiring to be a […]
Talking to Hazel Findlay about some of the hardest—and most important—mental tricks to focus on when attacking your project. One thing that many of us do in outdoor season is try projects that we’ve been dreaming of for the last six months. Most of us will take the approach that it’s about doing the training in […]
We’ve been working with Gwen (and her coach Simon Rawlinson) for a while now and it’s one of the coach-athlete teams that we’re most proud of. Many people might not be aware that we genuinely enjoy working alongside other coaches to deliver a “team” effort into the support of an athlete and it’s a balanced […]