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The Nugget Climbing Podcast

EP 135: Alice Hafer — How to Train Your Mind Muscle, Tips for Staying Motivated, and Box Jumps for Power

The Nugget Climbing Podcast

Steven Dimmitt

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4.2576 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 169 minutes

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Summary

Alice Hafer is a climber, writer, and coach who specializes in mind power training. We talked about climbing her first 5.14s, her experiences with depression and anxiety and how she changed her own mind through mental training, finding an identity outside of climbing, tips for staying motivated, focusing on effort over outcomes, and using box jumps to train for climbing power.

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and adventure. And if you love this podcast, and especially if you loved my episode with Jordan

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Archeterics presents free as can be, and we hope you enjoy the film.

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I personally am taking collagen about an hour before my finger training or before my climbing sessions to try to get the most out of my training.

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