Hey friends, welcome back to another bonus episode. Today I've got another follow-up conversation

for you with Alita Contreras from back in episode 87. Alita is a Colombian rock climber,

climbing coach, and a translator. She has translated many climbing books and training books into Spanish.

And Alita is also the first Colombian woman to climb 513C and 513D.

And now, as of very recently, 514A. In our first conversation back in episode 87,

she was projecting her first 514, feeling like she was getting close. We talked all about

that in that conversation. And a little over a month ago, she sent it. And I got a chance to sit down and

talk with her and hear all about it in this follow-up conversation. So I'm going to give you guys

a free teaser of the conversation, about 15 minutes or so of the conversation.

The full episode is about an hour long. And we talked about mental training.

Alita thinks that her mental strength is one of her greatest strengths in climbing, and that's

something she focuses on in her coaching and she had some interesting

things to say about that and since our last conversation she also has been working with lattice

training and has been getting her own coaching through lattice and she credits that as a huge part

of what helped her send Ferrari which is her first 514A. So we talked a lot about that.

We talked about what was different training with Ladis than how she's trained herself in the past.

And it was super interesting.

She talked about getting assessed by her coach at Ladis and discovering that she had different strengths and weaknesses than she had thought.

And we talked a lot about how she worked on building foot tension and

getting better at keeping her foot on when moonboarding and doing hard moves and things like that.

It was a combination of some strength training and some drills and technical skills and stuff

on the wall. So we talked all about that in the conversation,

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