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Rapid fire questions and answers. Getting Wild.

Last month, you asked a ton of great questions in the comment section of my post on

reclaiming your wildness and being less civilized. Covering everything from rock climbing to role-playing games, grappling

to kung fu, walking meditation to grounding. For today's post, I'm answering as many of them as I can.

Let's get right to the questions. Anthony asked, how about some tips for indoor rock climbing? Really been getting into this

lately as great cross-training. Went outside in Colorado last summer and I'm hooked. How do I

increase finger strength? What about being outside on a rock brings you so present? Answer, I'm no

expert in climbing, but from what I've gathered from friends who are, the best

way for relative beginners to improve finger strength for climbing is to climb. Climbing places a specific

type of stress on the fingers that's hard to replicate without actually climbing. You can make it more

systematic, of course, by moving back and forth between

holds. The same concepts that apply to training in general apply here as well, too. Don't overdo it.

Don't train to failure every time. Stop short of the point where your grip totally fails.

On the rock, death or serious injury are serious possibilities. You slip,

you fall. Even if there's a pad underneath or a rope hitched to your waist, the lizard

brain within perceives the situation to be dangerous. It forces the flow state. Writing the wave

of the present and staying in the flow becomes a lot easier

when death is on the line. Chad asked, from your experience with grappling drills, how would you

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