Mental training sets the stage for pushing harder and completing your project.

Focus Your Attention

Attention is the coolest part of mental training. It gives us a central point of reference that lets us know whether or not we’re focused. If we notice that we’re distracted, then we can bring our attention back to the task at hand.

There are many tasks in climbing, but for focusing attention there are only two: focusing on thinking and focusing on executing climbing moves. In general, we focus our attention on thinking when we’re at stopping/resting points on a climb, and we focus our attentio...