Ask the 8a coach: Hard training indoors but no progress outdoors

I have been training hard indoors, following different programs but I do not feel any progress outdoors on my route projects. How should I change my indoor training? This is quite logical as indoors and outdoors climbing sometimes challenges different strength. Focus on climbing many easier routes in order not to compare and be so performance-oriented outdoors, which can create anxiety. Regarding your indoor training, try do focus on more outdoor look-alike moves, which usually means Bouldering less steep and especially using smaller footholds. It just might be that your outdoor projects involve some closed crimping moves which you probably have not trained so much indoors during the winter. If so, just do a couple of sessions where you focus a bit more on crimping in order to recruite the strength which may be needed for your projects. Good luck! Feel free to ask more questions in the forum or send them to [email protected]