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In Part 6 of our Performance Bottleneck series, Kris and Nate dive into an uncomfortable bottleneck - that your partners might not be right for you. Subscribe to THE CURRENT and get a monthly exploration of how we can all become better climbers. Find Nate on Instagram and YouTube. Find Power Company on Instagram and YouTube. Share this episode with a friend who needs to hear it.

In Part 5 of our Performance Bottleneck series, Kris and Nate dive into a bottleneck that is entirely new in the past 7 or 8 years: Putting training before performing. Subscribe to THE CURRENT and get a monthly exploration of how we can all become better climbers. Find Nate on Instagram and YouTube. Find Power Company on Instagram and YouTube. Share this episode with a friend who needs to hear it.

In Part 4 of our Performance Bottleneck series, Kris and Nate dive into what is perhaps the most confusing tactic ever employed by climbers: saying take or letting go. It's confusing simply because in some situations it's a really valuable tactic. In others, it can slow things down dramatically. Subscribe to THE CURRENT and get a monthly exploration of how we can all become better climbers. Find Nate on Instagram and YouTube. Find Power Company on Instagram and YouTube. Share this episode with a friend who needs to hear it.

In Part 3 of our Performance Bottleneck series, Kris and Nate discuss how bad tactics can slow your progress. They get into how to know if your tactics are bad, and what you can do to improve them. Subscribe to THE CURRENT and get a monthly exploration of how we can all become better climbers. Find Nate on Instagram and YouTube. Find Power Company on Instagram and YouTube. Share this episode with a friend who needs to hear it.

If tactics are a search for enough overall stability to get a climb done, are we giving enough space to "stability of confidence"? Is it a part of your process?

In Part 2 of our Performance Bottleneck series, Kris and Nate discuss how only climbing in one campaign range - mini project, long term project, only onsighting, etc... - can lead to performance stagnation. They also discuss ways that each campaign range can actually help improve the others. Subscribe to THE CURRENT and get a monthly exploration of how we can all become better climbers. Find Nate on Instagram and YouTube. Find Power Company on Instagram and YouTube. Share this episode with a friend who needs to hear it.

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In Part 1 of this series exploring the most common performance bottlenecks in climbing, Kris and Nate sit down to discuss how not spending enough time outside can have a massive impact on hard you climb.  Most of this series will be on the patron podcast. You can join and get more than 150 bonus episodes at: www.patreon.com/powercompanypodcast   Subscribe to THE CURRENT and get a monthly exploration of how we can all become better climbers. Find Nate on Instagram and YouTube. Find Power Company on Instagram and YouTube. Share this episode with a friend who needs to hear it.

As a follow up from the previous episode, Nate and I sit down to discuss how climbers and coaches can better use constraints to improve.

Nate and I sit down to discuss David Epstein's recent book, Inside The Box: How Constraints Make Us Better. We get into the anecdotes from the book that we like, as well as where we think Epstein goes wrong, and how climbers can use the lessons in the book to fuel improvement. Subscribe to THE CURRENT and get a monthly exploration of how we can all become better climbers. Find Nate on Instagram and YouTube. Find Power Company on Instagram and YouTube. Share this episode with a friend who needs to hear it.

Nate and I continue our conversation about learning beta. Where have we taken the knowledge about beta too far, and has that replaced our experiential knowledge of?

There are a number of things that make climbing in the eastern half of the US different than climbing in the western US. The rock, the weather, the conditions, the accessibility to climbing and more. In this episode, Nate and Kris discuss the differences as well as their personal opinions. Subscribe to THE CURRENT and get a monthly exploration of how we can all become better climbers. Find Nate on Instagram and YouTube. Find Power Company on Instagram and YouTube. Share this episode with a friend who needs to hear it.

Many of us are busy. Because of this, we often default toward a low time investment program - the kind that has recently been touted as being better than doing more volume. But that comes at a cost that isn't often discussed. In this episode, Nate and Kris discuss the pros and cons of minimalist training programs, who they work best for, and what might be a better alternative, even if you're short on time. Subscribe to THE CURRENT and get a monthly exploration of how we can all become better climbers. Find Nate on Instagram and YouTube. Find Power Company on Instagram and YouTube. Share this episode with a friend who needs to hear it.

When approaching something tactically, we default to "learn as much as possible", but what if that slows down the process? How can we better allow our intuition to take over, and how do we know when that is the more efficient play?In this episode, I bring Nate into a Connect The Dots Freestyle to discuss an idea that came up during an in person coaching session.

In an ideal world, we'd value climbing training methods based on how well they actually work, but that's not reality. Instead, climbing training goes in trends. What that means is that we both overrate and underrate various methods. In this episode, Nate and Kris discuss their top most overrated training methods.  Subscribe to THE CURRENT and get a monthly exploration of how we can all become better climbers. Find Nate on Instagram and YouTube. Find Power Company on Instagram and YouTube. Share this episode with a friend who needs to hear it.