26 December 2011

Hours is what counts - not How

How to train to make fast progress is what everybody wants to know? But in reality, it seems like Hours is what counts, not How the training or climbing are done! Adam Ondra is the world's greatest climber and maybe one simple reason for this is that he is the teenager who has put in most climbing hours. You could probable say the same thing for the best female, Sasha Digiulian as well as explaining why the Austrians are the best competition climbers. The training volume for the best athletes in established sports like fotball, running and gymnastic etc go from 10 hours a week being 10 and increasing to 30 hours including competitions etc. So turning 20, the world class climbers and other athletes have in fact at least 10 000 hours training background. So maybe, the mission for the climbing trainers is not to give exact programs but simply to increase the motivation for putting in as many hours as possible? In the future, when we have hundreds of kids doing the sufficient numbers of weekly hours than maybe the trainers "How" programme will decide who will be #1.
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