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Dave MacLeod blog | A Scottish climber and blogger
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Dave MacLeod blog | A Scottish climber and blogger
2M ago
Should you drink the green supplement drink AG1? Or is the obvious alternative actually far superior? In this episode, I discuss several papers linked below:
https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3026(23)00160-6
10.1016/S2214-109X(22)00367-9
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-019-04157-y
https://doi.org/10.3390/life13102007
10.1016/j.jsams.2019.12.027
https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD-HealthProfessional/
10.1113/JP270654
PMC6413849
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2022.806566
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjnut.2022.10.016 ..read more
Dave MacLeod blog | A Scottish climber and blogger
2M ago
Social media is geared up to distort the realities of training, detraining and breaking through plateaus. Sure, skills and milestones can be acheived quickly and it's important to see demonstrations of how effective a singular goal and plan to achieve it can be. However, some plateaus (not those caused by lack of training) are not generally broken in this way. I just posted up a new YouTube video exploring my own efforts to break a plateau, with a few very simple ideas that I try to keep in mind, which in my view are underrepresented on social. All told through the story of a winter of serial ..read more
Dave MacLeod blog | A Scottish climber and blogger
3M ago
For about 6 months I’ve been working with Magnus Mitdbø on a course for his platform Altitude. My course is on movement technique for climbers and it releases in a few days time. If you’d like to see a free video series from the course, focused on footwork, you can check it out here.
Anyway, Magnus said he wanted to come over to Scotland for a couple of days climbing. Despite a stormy forecast, I was determined as always to climb outside. I also really wanted to get on some new routes. We had a wild day trying some projects in Arrochar. I didn't expect the wind to be quite that strong ..read more
Dave MacLeod blog | A Scottish climber and blogger
4M ago
It's been a long time since I bought some new holds for the board. It was time for some fresh circuits and I go through my process for setting and designing the layout of the board ..read more
Dave MacLeod blog | A Scottish climber and blogger
5M ago
Trad grades - they are inexact, hard to pin down and cause folk lots of confusion. In this video I discuss how I grade trad routes and how I insulate myself from the controversies that often accompany them. I also offer a grade for Echo Wall on Ben Nevis ..read more
Dave MacLeod blog | A Scottish climber and blogger
5M ago
A few weeks ago I picked up a mild A2 pulley injury in my finger. As many of you know, I wrote a whole chapter in Make or Break about finger injuries, but I thought I would make an episode showing you how I work around it to keep training despite the finger injury. Obviously, copying exactly what I do here is not the objective - every injury is different. It's about the general principle of working around injuries and how you might go about that. I hope it comes across in the episode that finding workarounds allows you to stay in better shape and remove a lot of the psychological pain of gett ..read more
Dave MacLeod blog | A Scottish climber and blogger
5M ago
A film I made over on the Fort William Mountain Festival channel about Caitlin Connor - an ice comp and dry tooling specialist. It was pretty tough to film this and not join in with the training! Caitlin received the Youth Award for Excellence in Mountain Culture this year. If you would like to nominate a young person making an important contribution in the mountains for this award, you can do so here ..read more
Dave MacLeod blog | A Scottish climber and blogger
6M ago
The 'quality' of recovery from training will determine the size of your gains. But this is a tricky thing to pin down. In this video I explain what makes a good rest day activity and why rest quantity is always a moving target ..read more
Dave MacLeod blog | A Scottish climber and blogger
7M ago
I thought it was about time I made some videos related to your questions about climbing/training. I asked my supporters on Patreon for their questions and picked a few related ones to tackle first:
What would I change or revise in my book 9 out of 10 climbers make the same mistakes?
How I organise and keep track of research?
How I deal with moderation and fuelling on high and low carb diets and the highs and lows of diet experiments?
Some controversial territory as expected. I’ve tried my best to tackle it head on in this episode. There were more questions of course, and I’ll put together som ..read more
Dave MacLeod blog | A Scottish climber and blogger
7M ago
Back when you started climbing, finding motivation wasn’t really a big deal for a lot of folk. Yet for some, it becomes a real issue later on. In this episode I explore this and offer a simple (not not always easy) solution ..read more