10 May 2020
Mawem olympic brothers interview
Fanatic Climbing has published a full length interview with the Mawev brothers who both have qualified to the Olympics. (c) Julia Cassou
To sum up: No trainer, no plan, no gym training... just climb, climb, climb... and doing pull-ups.
Bassa #2 in Speed WCH 2018
Iโm not an athlete who trains many times a day. Iโm not a professional climber and I donโt have the time, I need to work too. Moreover, I like training just once in a day, most of the time from noon to 5 pm. I start my training with a one-hour warm-up then a one 1 pm, I start climbing hard. And then, I climb, I climb, I climb, I climb, I climb, I climb until I have no more skin on my fingers, no more nails, or have muscle cramps. And I hydrate, eat and sleep well which prevents this kind of problem. So if I begin to have muscle cramps during my training, that is because I have pushed beyond my limits. Thatโs when I know my training session is over.
In a week, my schedule is simple. I do as I said before, and I repeat it Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. I push very hard at each training session to let it be the most efficient as possible. So train 20 hours a week where I just climb and in addition to that, I will doing 2 hours of daily yoga soon. It will start next week but Iโm not in a hurry to start Yoga! (Laugh)."
Michael - #1 Euro Boulder CH 2019
My coach? Itโs Bassa! He coordinates and plans my training. But about exercises, we work together on it. For the organization, heโs the boss! For us, sessions are created by cycles, we function with repetition. We are telling that training is exactly like trying a difficult boulder problem. We are telling that exactly the same thing and you progress when you repeat and repeat until to feel well. So that the same process about training exercises, we practice it and repeat it until itโs ok and after we find another exercise.
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