EP 228: How to Easily Improve Your Flexibility for Climbing — Josh Hadley (Lattice Training)

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4.0 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 151 minutes

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Summary

Josh Hadley is a leading flexibility coach in climbing and the face behind the Lattice YouTube Channel. I’ve struggled with stretching routines over the years, and this episode completely changed my flexibility training. In this episode, Josh shares his top 4 stretches for inflexible climbers and introduces key concepts like chasing horizontal, weighted stretching, tempo, contract and relax, reducing friction, best times to stretch, and more. We also covered his recent CARCing experiment and other topics. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome to the Nugget Climbing Podcast. This is your host, Stephen Dimmit.
0:07.7	And today's episode is one that I've been wanting to do for a while now. My guest today is Josh Hadley.
0:14.3	Josh is one of the leading experts in flexibility in the climbing world, and he's also the face of
0:20.7	the lattice training YouTube channel.
0:22.8	You might recognize him from some of the great videos that he's making over there.
0:26.9	And I've been wanting to talk to him for a while, and I've been wanting to do a master class
0:31.4	on flexibility training. I've had other experts on to talk about this in the past, but I still haven't really found a methodology or a protocol as far as a stretching routine goes that I've been able to stick with or that I've seen great results with. And I just really like Josh's approach. He brings a really refreshing perspective to flexibility training. And he makes
0:57.4	it easy, even if you're really inflexible. That's something that I've struggled with a lot in the
1:01.0	past. It's really frustrating to learn how to stretch from really flexible people. And if you're
1:07.9	listening to this episode, I'm sure many of you can relate to this. But if you can't even sit on the floor and get in the positions that you're supposed to be stretching in, it sucks.
1:16.6	And it doesn't work very well.
1:18.3	And Josh understands that.
1:20.0	And he knows how to work with really inflexible people.
1:23.6	And that's really what we focused on today.
1:26.0	So if you've struggled with flexibility in the past,
1:28.8	this episode is a gold mine. We talked about some of the most important stretches for climbers,
1:34.4	and then we talked about how to get started if you're really inflexible, how to change the
1:38.3	positions, how to introduce weights, to basically create more gravity, to assist you into the stretch. And yeah, it just makes it really
1:46.3	approachable in a way that I haven't found in a lot of other stretching routines and things like
1:51.4	that. So I really hope this is helpful. I've actually been stretching following the exact method
1:56.6	that Josh lays out in this episode, and it's going going really well and it feels enjoyable. And I've
2:02.4	actually been sticking with it for the first time in a really long time. I've been stretching for
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