Vertical Life

THE BIG TWO

1. Do I need to lose weight to climb better?

Most of us have watched it happen. Someone falls off their project, attributes it to feeling heavy and then decides the solution to sending is to be lighter. Or worse, they watch a smaller, lighter climber send their project and decide being lighter like them is the only answer. Their objectivity abandons them, they block out the memory of skipping power endurance training for the past month or forget how often they walked past the hangboard rather

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