#95: Mental Wings Strategies for Uncommon Success and Happiness
Eric Hörst's Training For Climbing Podcast
Release Date: 01/03/2024
#113: A Powerful (and Overlooked) Route Climbing Strategy for Leveling Up!
Eric Hörst's Training For Climbing Podcast
In this episode, I reveal a powerful — and often overlooked — strategy for developing the mental, technical, and tactical skills needed to level up your climbing. If you're an intermediate climber passionate about improving — or an advanced climber who's hit a plateau — then this is a must-listen episode. Even veteran climbers and professionals can use this strategy to refine their skills and “sharpen the saw” each season. America’s top sport climber, Jonathan Siegrist, has shared with me that he enjoys and benefits from this approach to route climbing. So, what is this...
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#112: EXPERT: Tips for Optimizing Climbing Training with Dr. Thomas Cunningham
Eric Hörst's Training For Climbing Podcast
Welcome to the first episode in a special series of performance-focused conversations with my friend, Dr. Thomas Cunningham. In this fast-paced discussion, we dive into a wide range of topics, including tips for optimizing climbing training, injury prevention, key dietary interventions, performance hacks, and the role of self-discipline and sacrifice. We also explore best practices tailored for hard-training climbers over 35. No matter your age, this episode is packed with actionable insights you can start applying today! RUNDOWN 0:15 - Coach Eric Hörst's welcome statement. 0:30 -...
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#111: Training & Life Upgrades to Send 2025!
Eric Hörst's Training For Climbing Podcast
Dear Listener, How about -- together -- we all try to SEND 2025? In other words, let's try to upgrade our thoughts and actions in all we do to make 2025 our best year yet! Towards this end, in this episode I will serve up tips for improving your training, elevating your climbing, and advancing in other important life areas! RUNDOWN 0:15 - Eric's greetings... 0:45 - Introductory comments on striving to live your dream life...in climbing and beyond. 3:38 - Upgrade #1: Improve your time management to maximize time spent engaged in important activities. 10:33 - Upgrade #2: Level-up your...
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#110: Join My "SEND 2025" Challenge! (deadline to join January 3, 2025)
Eric Hörst's Training For Climbing Podcast
In this brief episode, I invite you to join my "Send 2025" New Year's Challenge! I designed this free 6-week challenge to help motivate and inspire a fresh, focused, and optimistic start to the new year...and hopefully help you set off on your best year ever! The challenge is action-oriented -- so we'll ask you to set some achievable short-term goals to reach for during the 6-weeks of the challenge. These action items can relate to your training and nutrition goals for the new year, but also target bad habits you’d like to change…or other behaviors that are holding you back from reaching...
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#109: Alex Megos Interviews Eric Hörst (What?!)
Eric Hörst's Training For Climbing Podcast
The title of this podcast may have you thinking "WTF?" Well, this is a special episode of the T4C podcast...and I think you're going to really enjoy it! THE Alex Megos has recently launched his own podcast, and during his recent visit to the States he asked me to sit down for a conversation about the history of training, personalized program design, nutrition and recovery, and much much more. Of course, I was excited for this unique opportunity...and we had a very lively hour and ten minute conversation that I think every stoked climber will enjoy! There's lots of talk of training and...
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#108: BEST OF: 13 Send Tips That Can Make All The Difference In The World!
Eric Hörst's Training For Climbing Podcast
In this episode, coach Hörst shares 13 little things that can make a BIG difference when it comes to sending your near limit—or, perhaps, beyond limit!—project boulder or route. Quite often it's the tiniest of things that can make or break your ascent. Eric covers a lot of territories including the power of proper breathing, the best time of the day to send, the effects of food and drink on energy and focus, how to get the perfect warm-up, how long to rest between attempts, how to win the skin game, the importance of the shoes you wear, how your thinking can make or break a send go, and...
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#107: Last-Minute Secrets to Climbing Your Best (and Preventing the Punt!)
Eric Hörst's Training For Climbing Podcast
One of the ironies of climbing performance outcomes is that as hard as you've physically trained in preparation, the outcome often hinges on the quality of your mental game. The power point, here, is that when it comes down to the final days and hours leading up to an important climb, the keys to performing your best are largely mental! While many athletes "shoot themselves in the foot” in any number of ways in the days or hours leading up to competition — or even during the sports event itself! — a well-coached and mentally apt and experienced individual will act in deliberate ways to...
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#106: Biohacks and Blood Work to Support Climbing Performance
Eric Hörst's Training For Climbing Podcast
This 20-minute flash episode will delve briefly into two topics: 1. Popular training biohacks, including sauna use, cold plunge, and intermittent fasting. 2. The value of getting an occasional blood work-up to monitor how your health and performance-related biometrics change as a result of diet, training, and aging. This episode features an interview I did earlier this year with Kush Khandelwal of . T4C Podcast sponsor ==> Visit the leader in climbing-specific performance nutrition. Get 15% off full-priced items with checkout code: (North America only). Europe and...
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#105: Stretching Strategies and Injury Trends
Eric Hörst's Training For Climbing Podcast
This 15-minute flash episode will delve briefly into two topics: 1, Stretching for climbers -- learn what to do and when. 2. Recent injury trends...and the number #1 thing you can do to lower your injury risk. This episode features an interview I did earlier this year with Kush Khandelwal of . T4C Podcast sponsor ==> Visit the leader in climbing-specific performance nutrition. Get 15% off full-priced items with checkout code: (North America only). Europe and elsewhere visit or to get your PhysiVantage! SAVE on Thank...
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#104: Tips for Raising Happy, Healthy Climbing Kids
Eric Hörst's Training For Climbing Podcast
In this Flash episode, I'm going to talk briefly about raising happy, healthy kids with a passion for climbing! There's no "right" way to raise kid climbers...but I'm going to share the approach that my wife and I used to develop well-rounded kids who, today as young adults (ages 22 and 24), love climbing more than ever! This episode features an interview I did earlier this year with Kush Khandelwal of . T4C Podcast sponsor ==> Visit the leader in climbing-specific performance nutrition. Get 15% off full-priced items with checkout code: (North America only). Europe and...
info_outlineDo you want to level up in climbing...and across the board in your life?
Many folks use the fresh start of a new year to set some goals and make course corrections in important life areas. I'm one of those people...and since you're listening to this podcast, you probably are too!
Towards this end, this episode transcends climbing performance...and aspires to increase human performance. I will present to you 15 powerful strategies and concepts that have shaped my MO in climbing and life over the past 30 years...and I trust you'll find this information empowering and actionable in your own quest to level up your performance in climbing, career, and beyond!
RUNDOWN
0:15 - Greetings and Happy New Year!
0:50 - Use the new year to evaluate your life across the board...and make course corrections!
3:20 - Introduction to Eric's "Mental Wings" concepts and strategies
5:02 - Overview of human performance -- YOU, dear listener, are far more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
12:30 - Brief Podcast Sponsor message from PhysiVantage Nutrition. Save 15% off full-price nutrition with checkout code: PODCAST15 at PhysiVantage.com (USA and Canada only). International climbers, please get your PhysiVantage from the EPIC-TV Shop >>
14:30 - 15 Mental Wings concepts and strategies for Uncommon Success and Happiness
16:30 - #1: Your quality of life is directly related to the quality of your thoughts
18:15 - #2: Human beings are the embodiment of unused potential.
19:00 - #3: To outperform the masses, you must do things they don't do.
21:10 - #4: Clarity of values and goals, and a clear purpose for living form the foundation for a life full of rich, transcending experiences.
22:10 - #5: Risk is a precursor to reward.
23:15 - #6: Almost anything is possible once you conquer fear.
26:12 - #7: Singular focus and indomitable persistence knows no limits.
27:30 - #8: Obstacles and adversity make you stronger.
29:55 - #9: A fit body potentiates a fit mind.
30:20 - #10: Life is subtle—sweat the small stuff!
33:47 - #11: Your future is largely determined in the brief moment between stimulus and response (in any activity).
35:15 - #12: Maintain a dynamic, evolving life process by reinventing yourself from time to time.
36:55 - #13: Enjoy this moment—this moment is your life.
37:47 - #14: Unconditional love is the most powerful force in the universe.
38:20 - #15: In the final analysis, you are mostly self-made.
40:25 - Summary thoughts -- please share this podcast with a friend...or on your Social Media. (Thanks!)
42:00 - Send off!
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