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		<title>Quick Fixes for your Wrists and Elbows</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2014 21:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often as desk bound climbers, we get nagging pain in our wrists and elbows. Most of the time we attribute it to overuse, which in some cases could be accurate, but in others, it may simply be a shortening of the muscles due to everyday use. This can easily be managed by some stretching and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Climber&#8217;s Need Aerobic Training? Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2014 20:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month I talked about the benefits of aerobic training, how it   increases your capacity to do more work, recovers muscles from hard training days, and it can teach you how to regulate your breathing and heart rate while climbing. Because we are rock climbers, and not training to be a runner, the program will be different. The recommendations listed will be primarily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Climber&#8217;s Need Aerobic Training? Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2014 23:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you ever find yourself climbing up a route and you reach the crux, you make a few difficult moves and you start to huff and puff, and ultimately your heavy breathing leaves you falling off the route? Do you find yourself huffing and puffing on the approach to your climb, and feel a bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recovery tips: how to optimize your recovery before your next climbing session</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2014 21:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are one who is training a ton this winter as well as trying to ski or enjoy winter sports on the weekends, you probably aren&#8217;t giving enough attention to your recovery. The more efficient you recover, the sooner you are ready for the next hard workout, as well as avoiding plateaus and burn out.As an active [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Squamish to Guanella Pass in my Vapor V’s</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been living in Seattle for a year now, 1 YEAR! I have somehow managed to survive my first winter here in Seattle, but it wouldn’t have been possible without being able to climb in Squamish and Leavenworth. Now, if you know these areas, you know that the rock just doesn’t give you any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sport Climbing and Aid Climbing Training</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2013 04:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few follow along training videos for Sport Climbing and Aid Climbing. These were made for Climbing Magazine&#8217;s Edition of the 50 Classic Climbs. Check out my full article in Climbing Magazine here!. Climbing Specific Strength Training from Mercedes Pollmeier on Vimeo. Aid climbing from Mercedes Pollmeier on Vimeo.]]></description>
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		<title>What Nutrition Category do you fall into?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2013 04:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you Paleo? Are you Vegan? Are you Gluten Free? Well, it is so hard to say what kind of nutrition category I fall into. I’m not entirely Paleo, I’m not entirely gluten free, I’m not entirely against all carbs. I know for sure that once I do fixate on one category and am completely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post Workout Nutrition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2013 04:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, after running an intense climbing workout class, one of my clients asked me what the best post workout foods or supplements are to take for recovery. My answer was Chocolate Milk! This is because it has the optimal ratio of carbohydrates to complete proteins (whey and casein). When it comes to recovery, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Core Strength Training</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 06:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mercedes Pollmeier, M.S., CSCS First of all, what is the core? Well, it’s definitely not just your abs. It incorporates most of your trunk, your back and your butt. Some exercise science specialists also say that the core can extend all the way down your hamstrings (posterior chain) and quadriceps (anterior chain). The core [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;On the Wall&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a video about Erin Machinchick, who is a fairly new climber and offers a great perspective on what it&#8217;s like when you make climbing a part of your life. She has only been climbing for a year now and has already lead a 5.12a outside. Keep it up Erin! &#8220;On the Wall&#8221; &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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