Training vs. Recreating
It’s important to know the fundamental differences between recreating and training—because this course is focused primarily on training.
Recreating is the way in which most of us enjoy climbing: hanging with friends, trading belays and catching up about the week, waiting in line for that awesome new route, and maybe trying something slightly challenging. Recreating is fun—it’s climbing at its most social and most basic, whether we do so on rock or in the gym. Which is to say, just going to the rock gym and climbing with no specific goal in mind is not actually training—it’s recreating! Not tha...