The Power Company Climbing Podcast

Many people view indoor climbing as less serious than climbing outside, but if we're looking to improve, that may be a mistake. There are aspects of climbing outside that lead us into learning specific things that we don't necessarily find as easily indoors.

In this episode, Kris and Nate discuss their top 5 lessons from climbing outside that, when taken indoors, can help us become better climbers faster.

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EXPLORE FURTHER

Check out our Proven Plans to jumpstart your intention indoors.

Check out the Comment Card blog post mentioned in this episode.

You might also enjoy these related episodes:

BOARD MEETINGS: Top 4 Ways to Transition to Outdoor Climbing with Taylor Fragomeni

BOARD MEETINGS: How to Make the Most of a Board Session

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CHAPTERS

(00:00:00) Introduction and Topic Explanation

(00:05:55) Using and Practicing Better Tactics

(00:14:32) Bring Mid-Session Snacks or Food

(00:25:44) Go In With a Plan

(00:28:38) Power Company Proven Plans

(00:29:18) Set Goals

(00:35:47) Not Complaining About the Setting

(00:48:57) Outro

Last summer I started a list titled "Non Climbing (realistic) Dream Guests". I only got as far as one name: Dan John. I was planning to be in Salt Lake for the OR Trade Show, so I emailed Dan on the off chance that he'd do an in person conversation. To my surprise he emailed back almost immediately, scheduled a call for the next day, and invited me to his house to workout and record the conversation.

If you've taken even a cursory look into the field of Strength and Conditioning, you've seen the name Dan John repeatedly. He's often quoted by other coaches, including all of us here at Power Company Climbing, and his pragmatic approach to training is one that has resonated with me since I read his book, Easy Strength, co written with kettlebell guru Pavel Tsatsouline.

I went to his house to discuss his newest book, "Now What?", which asks and answers the important questions that coaches and athletes often forget to ask. After you've done your assessments, you've trained and met the standards, you've won or lost, or your season is over... Now What? This book follows two other excellent books from Dan called "Intervention" and "Can You Go?", both of which should be required reading for coaches.

The wisdom that Dan shares concerning coaching and dealing with athletes is impossible to overvalue. While he's worked with Olympic and Professional athletes, he still makes time for an open workout in his simple garage gym at 9:30 every morning, where he both dispenses knowledge and learns from whoever shows up that day. After a workout in Dan's gym, this style of what Dan calls "intentional community" is exactly how I plan to build my own home gym.

You can find Dan at www.danjohn.net

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In this, the second of two episodes with seasoned big wall climber Josie McKee, she and Kris sit down to discuss how her recent trip to Yosemite turned out – what went well, what didn’t, what she might do differently to prepare for future trips, and so forth. But the conversation goes far beyond training and tick lists as they consider some hurdles every climber faces at one point or another, hurdles that can hold us back from a fulfilling and sustainable relationship with climbing.

If you haven’t listened to the first episode with Josie yet, do so HERE! Also be sure to check out Josie’s recent blog post HERE!

Learn more about Josie's mindset coaching at Mind Athlete.

Follow Josie on Instagram.

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As wildfires become more common and powerful, the Giant Sequoias of the American West are burning at alarming rates. These enormous beings stand at a few hundred feet in height and a hundred feet in diameter.

Due to climate change and 100 years of human mismanagement, the forests where these Sequoias live are being lost to wildfire.

In this episode, Kris sits down with Sam Prentice, District Hydrologist for the USDA Forest Service, to speak about how wildfires are impacting our Giant Sequoia groves, the surrounding communities, and what we can do about it.

This episode also dives into our history of fire management, or mismanagement, in the United States, and how current government bodies and nonprofits are not on the same page for a mitigation plan.

Links from this episode:

• Save The Sequoias Act
• 10 Tips to Prevent Wildfires
• Smokey Bear’s Helpful Website
• The Sequoia Conservation Fund

Read the Access Fund article about how wildfires are impacting climbers.

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This episode of Plug Tone Outdoors was created and produced by Kris Hampton.

Music by Mepa Melson, Serge Quadrado, Anton Vlasov, LesFM and Coma Media from Pixabay.com

Find a full transcript of this episode, images from Sam, and more, at the blog post for this episode.

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Alex Megos may well be the strongest climber in the world. But is he the best?

In this episode I sit down with Megos and his good friend Ken Etzel, the director of the new film that we are discussing, Rotpunkt.

Rotpunkt gives us a rare glimpse into the up and down struggles of someone trying to become the best in the world. Maybe not suprisingly, these are struggles that every single one of us can relate to. Possibly even more fascinating is the bond that was forged between filmmaker and athlete, and the pressures that this bond had to endure while making the film.

You can find the film at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbWvFjUIt5k

You can find Alex Megos on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/alexandermegos

You can find Ken Etzel on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/ken_etzel

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