Gravsports

First off, congrats to GM, who just won a drytooling competition down in Colorado Springs. Nice one. I've been heckling/coaching GM a bi...

Early winter in the Rockies is a dangerous time of year; we're all fired up to get out in the snow and on the ice, but the situation is ...

Today was my first day of ice climbing. I've taken my tools for a walk a few times and done some scouting, but due to travel, weather an...

I was out for a hike in the mountains yesterday and saw these tracks. Five or six animals, lots of deer in the area, hmmm... I'm going w...

I often hear comments such as, "I only climb/fly/paddle/walk/whatever for myself." While this is ultimately true, the same people ...

I'm over the pig flu and back training, hopefully climbing a lot more soon! My bud Kelly Cordes put some info on gloves here , with comm...

Greg. T sent me this link, it's pretty interesting . The idea is that previous iterations of humans were a hell of a lot fitter than eve...

Thanks to everyone who wrote me an email about my reading list for mental training. Really cool to hear from so many people. I started respo...

It's a fact of competitive life that the strongest and most skilled often don't win in the competition. I have won a lot of competit...

I love training. There, it's out in the open. A lot of people have this hang-up that real men don't train, that somehow if you'r...

I've been training at one sport or another now for 25+ years. I first started thinking of physical activity as "training" duri...

So I bust out today's X-Fit workout as hard as I can. I'm doing squat cleans alternating with some sort of ass-backards situp thing ...

" The need for specificity is nearly completely met by regular practice and training within the sport not in the strength and conditio...

We've all been on outdoor trips where the whole situation gets a bit sideways, or at least requires operating at a high output level for...

Crossfit should be banned. It's a drug, it's a form of self-torture, it's a damn curse on my body's weakest parts. I tried t...

I woke up this morning in a hotel room, but it took me a minute to realize that I wasn't going to put the same non-dry dry suit back on ...

Well, we’re headed northwest to try and run the Atnarko River! Five of us, boats on the roof, game on! The Atnarko is the river we flew alon...

For sending his long-time climbing project. Yeah Gord! Now it's time to get back at the training, no slacking.

I've been paddling and climbing more than normally with youth of late. I've also been watching videos, reading blogs, and somehow ...

I went to Dave Thomson's memorial last night. I was surprised as I looked around the room at how diverse the people in attendance were; ...