EP 276: Alex Bridgewater — Sports Psychology Tools to Elevate Your Climbing Performance

The Nugget Climbing Podcast

Steven Dimmitt

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4.2 • 576 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 168 minutes

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Summary

Alex Bridgewater (M.S. in Sports Psychology) returns to the podcast to discuss tools that can help elevate your climbing performance. We talked about finding your values, the dark side of expectations, a framework for working toward goals, how to develop confidence, building awareness, whether climbing is separate from life, the cost of masochism, acceptance, unhooking, mindfulness practice, and much more. You can work with Alex at http://innersourceperformancepsychology.com/

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome to the Nugget Climbing Podcast.
0:04.2	This is your host, Stephen Dimmit.
0:06.9	My guest today is Alex Bridgewater.
0:09.4	This is his second appearance on the show.
0:11.5	Alex was on the podcast five years ago.
0:15.2	Alex is a high-level climber and climbing coach based in Lander, Wyoming.
0:19.6	And since his last appearance on the podcast,
0:21.7	he has gone back to graduate school and finished a master's degree in sports psychology and focuses
0:28.9	on sports psychology tools to help climbers elevate their performance. He works with non-climers
0:34.8	as well. And I was really excited to have him back on the show. I always love talking to this guy. I think he's really insightful. He's an exceptionally good climber. He's climbed 514B. I've watched him Flash 513s. Very confident, very controlled, very impressive in his climbing. He's got a great mental game for climbing and he's really good at this stuff.
0:56.4	I really enjoyed what he had to share in this conversation. We spent the first part talking about
1:00.9	graduate school and what his experience was like. He bit off a little bit more than he can chew and
1:05.5	there were some lessons from that which was fun to hear about. And then we spent most of this
1:10.0	conversation diving into some tools that you guys can take from this conversation and utilize in your life, in your climbing.
1:18.1	And however, they are helpful.
1:20.1	Anyway, many nuggets in this episode.
1:22.6	Please enjoy Alex Bridgewater.
1:27.4	Caz, cast, cast. No one can do it like we do it like we do it like we do. enjoy Alex Bridgewater.
1:49.3	So yeah, I had you on the podcast almost five years ago. It's crazy to think back on that. So this was the summer of 2020 shortly after the COVID lockdowns.
1:51.1	Everything had lifted and opened back up.
1:53.1	And I started traveling again.
1:57.1	I was heading out to 10 sleep for, you know, fun, sport climbing,
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