Training for Mountaineering: The Psychology of Risk and Fear
Uphill Athlete Podcast
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Meditation and Breathing - It's a Meditation for Climbing
Breathing helps us to calm down that sympathetic nervous system which is what controls that hormone response and that fear response so breathing is really important in those situations. My climbing partners used to actually kind of make fun of me for that they thought we can tell when it gets hard up there because we can hear you breathing from down here well you were doing it right thoughYeah well I mean I was also the one leading the hard pitches so so yeah I was doing it right so far.
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