Staying motivated training at home or alone – some ways to help to stick with it!
Motivation for isolated training
Category: Training
More Than Just a Number: Getting into E1
By David Craig Transitioning from HVS to E1 is often a problem, not just because of the increase in difficulty but because of the mental […]
My year as Training Officer
Andy Minshull took over the job of training officer in 2018. Here is his first-person account of the challenges involved in introducing a swathe of […]
The Ideal Belay
In the first of a regular feature on technical topics Rob Davies, a Mountaineering Instructor and long term club member takes us through how to […]
What do you go to the climbing wall for?
Muscle memory and how we learn, and how to use this to train smarter.
(by Sé O’Hanlon, January 2014)
Mountain Leader Award
(by Allister Gerrard, June 2008)
How to achieve the ML, with one holder’s personal experiences.
Physical Training For Mountaineering
(by Chris Clarke, from IMC Newsletter Autumn 2003)
As the evenings shorten and the weather changes the opportunities to go climbing usually start to diminish at this time of the year. People start to think of indoor walls, hot rock and winter mountaineering trips. Whatever your approach to the next 6 months of the climbing calendar, you will certainly benefit from some form of structured physical training.
Beginners Course 2004
(by Lynn Ryan, from IMC Newsletter Summer 2004)
"I had learnt … that climbing is not merely a sport but an addiction. I had been hooked from day one, so I wasn’t going to let something like a fear of heights stop me!"
Health Matters – Leptospirosis
(by Antoinette Gough, from IMC Newsletter, Summer 2003)
Avoiding and treating Leptospirosis, or Weil’s Disease.
On Being Shown the Ropes
(by Declan Cunningham, from the IMC Newsletter, Summer 2000)
The Glendalough weekend, the grand finale of the IMC beginners’ course.