Camp 4 Performance Podcast
25 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago -The official podcast of Dr. Tyler Nelson and Camp 4 Human Performance! Our mission with the podcast is to provide an additional outlet for climbers and coaches to learn more thoroughly about C4HP topics. You can expect deeper dives on finger strength, injury rehabilitation, performance, technical skills, mobility and much more! You can also expect guest conversations with climbers and coaches to learn more through personal perspective and experience. Thank you for listening!
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Finger Endurance is better done off-the-wall?? Exclusive Coach's Q&A from C4HP Patreon
March 27, 2024 12:00 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MBIn this exclusive Coach's Q&A from the C4HP Patreon we answer the burning questions that our members offer us each month. Included in those questions is the topic of endurance and Dr. Tyler Nelson has some new thoughts regarding better endurance training for climbing training. The team also dives into other questions regarding assessments and training plan organization. This 45 minute episode is only half of the full 90 minute discussion the coaches have! To listen to the full episode, and...
What Does a Climbing Coach's Training Look Like?
September 20, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 49.3 MBWe are back! In this episode you'll catch the C4HP team discussing their recent training plans as they head into their climbing season, what they are doing differently this year as compared to last, and what they think climbers could do better to prepare to perform! The C4HP team has been busy developing and launching new projects: The Camp 4 Performance Certification - a Pass/Fail course design to teach and test coaches on their ability to coach, demonstrate, and think critically about ...
Keep it Simple to Send with Camp 4 Coach, Jesse Firestone
April 14, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBMeet our newest Camp 4 Coach, Coach Jesse Fire Stone! Coach J Fire brings well over a decade of climbing experience and passion to the team. His wisdom is derived from endless curiosity about climbing, technique, skill acquisition and improving your mindset to more efficiently better yourself as a climber. Coach Jesse is currently taking on new clients and filling quickly! Click the link below to schedule your training! Train with Coach Jesse! Support the show Thank you for listening! R...
Common Rock Climbing Injuries and How to Reduce Your Risk of Injury
January 23, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 47.8 MBIn this episode the Camp 4 Team sits down to discuss common rock climbing injuries found in the shoulder, elbow, and fingers. Dr. Tyler Nelson talks about why these injuries happen and what is unique to each area of the body and injury. Finally, the team details what you as a climber need to know about climbing outside, or in a gym, to reduce your risk for injury and what to do for training as well. Support the show Thank you for listening! Remember to visit camp4humanperformance.com for m...
How to Create a Climbing Training Plan
December 14, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 50.8 MBIn this episode Dr. Tyler Nelson and Coach Collin McGee discuss the principles of creating a training plan for climbing for both on-the-wall activities and off. They discuss what should be done, seen, and felt in: Strength phases Power phases Power Endurance Phases Endurance Phases Capacity Phases Performance phases Each of those sections has unique characteristics that need to be considered in order to achieve the results of the training. Dr. Nelson and Coach Collin also answer us...
In-Season Training: What to Do and What NOT to Do with Dr. Tyler Nelson
November 05, 2022 10:00 - 56 minutes - 39.1 MBIn this episode the Camp 4 team sits down to discuss in-season training. What should we be doing when the weather opens up for outdoor climbing? We should be doing: Things that help translate our hard earned offseason strengths into climbing specific work Maintaining our force output through strategic exercise choice Managing fatigue week-to-week so that we can arrive to the crag FRESH! This is done through strategic exercise selection as well as contraction type in those exercises. We ...
The Philosophy of Flexibility
October 17, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 46.3 MBThe Camp 4 Team sits down to discuss the "WHY" behind flexibility and mobility for rock climbing. The team talks about stretching, strength training, sets, reps, but most importantly key principles to remember and include to get the most out of your training. Key principles like understanding that stretching and flexibility training for the sake of flexibility training is not meant for everyone. Doing things blindly, or because a friend is doing it, can be misleading and slowing down your p...
5 Things to Consider Before Projecting
October 01, 2022 18:00 - 51 minutes - 35.1 MBOn this episode, Coach Gabe Olson shares his wisdom and expertise in climbing mindset, intention, and skills development. We talk about 5 things to consider when you are projecting a climb and how to improve your chances of success! Need help better understanding these concepts or clarifying what they mean for you specifically? Coach Gabe can work with you 1-1 to help you fine tune your climbing and help meet your goals sooner! Visit our website below for more detail! https://www.camp4hum...
New Thoughts on Finger Strength: Assessments and Training Updated
September 15, 2022 20:00 - 48 minutes - 33 MBDr. Tyler Nelson has been assessing finger strength for many years now. After some continuing education he recently went through a new light bulb flashed over his head. This light bulb leads to an addition on the Camp 4 Performance Assessment to identify the threshold of your muscle's peak recruitment. This is different from your maximal loadable weight that you can hang with on your fingers. Understanding this difference leads to more effective strength training with less fatigue to your bo...
How Strong is Strong Enough?
September 08, 2022 18:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBThe whole team is here to talk about strength training. The goal is to give a clean and clear definition of strength training and the principles behind it to guarantee what you're doing is actually improving your strength. This can be done on and off the wall as long as the principles are met. The coaches also discuss what we can do as climbers and coaches to assess ourselves, or work with a professional, to help clarify the direction we need to go with our training and climbing. Never hes...
Introducing the Camp 4 Performance Podcast!
August 24, 2022 21:00 - 7 minutes - 4.96 MBIntroducing the C4P Podcast! The official podcast of Dr. Tyler Nelson and Camp 4 Human Performance. Get to know the coaches, mission, and direction of your new favorite thing to listen to as a rock climber! Make sure to follow the along with us on instagram to stay in touch and up-to-date with the latest in rock climbing training, rehabilitation and skills work. And keep an eye out for when we drop out next and officail first full length episode. Thank you for tuning in! Dr. Tyler Nelson...
Online Coaching: Building Meaningful Connections
April 12, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBThe online fitness industry is a booming one. Now more than ever! With so many instagram accounts with 100k+ followers, blue check marks, and thousands of likes, it can seem that the market is completely full and your chances of success are zero. That couldn't be further from the truth. As my guest Clayton says: "There is no one you-er than YOU!" You will always have the opportunity to connect with someone differently, or more effectively, than someone else even if you are "selling the same...
Women's Hormones & Sports Performance with Dr. Lexi Kantor
April 05, 2021 19:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MBWomen's hormones play significant physiological roles when it comes to exercise and adaptation. As athletes and coaches, we should be well aware of these to make better decisions to more positively influence our training towards better results, recovery, and performance in sport. Dr. Lexi Kantor is a specialist in this area working primarily with rock climbing athletes. In this episode she brushes on some key information that we all should be aware of to get the most out of our training and...
Rock Climbing Mobility with Dr. Tyler Nelson
January 18, 2021 11:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MBIf you don’t know Dr. Tyler Nelson yet, you might be living under a rock rather than climbing one...he’s a rehab specialist and strength coach that has been pioneering new thoughtful ways to view how we physically prepare for rock climbing and heal from injuries. He teaches excellent courses online from Lower Back Pain Management and Tendon Rehab to Training the Youth Athlete. He’s also developed assessment protocols for the Exsurgo Tech. GStrength500 and Portal bringing innovation to the w...
Training for Rock Climbing: Improving the Way You Move
December 06, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 42.3 MBMeet my good man Lloyd O'Mahoney! He is a fellow rock climber and training enthusiast! He is a physical therapist, Functional Range Conditioning and Functional Range Assessment provider. He brings so much knowledge to the table, aside from the aforementioned, to make him the man to go see for your training and performance needs as a rock climber in Ireland. In this episode we discuss: The importance of initial assessment before any training program That stretching alone for flexibility i...
Basketball Strength & Conditioning: Managing Volume, Common Injuries, and the Aerobic System
October 14, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBIn this episode I have on my great friend Paul! Paul is a thinker. He has been around the block when it comes to education, certification, seminars and experience. What I love about him most is his open mind and ability to think critically in any situation. We always say in the coaching world, its not about how big of a bag of tools you have, it is knowing when and why to use each tool. Paul is exemplary of that! In the episode we cover: Why we got hurt so often in our college athlete day...
#StrongIsFeminine, FRC, and Training for Jiu Jitsu with Christina Gonzalez
August 01, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 48.3 MBIn this episode I return with Christina Gonzalez. If you missed the previous episode, check it out! Christina is one of my great friends, and one of the best coaches and humans you will ever meet. She helps people move better through intelligent strength training. She is one of the assistant instructors for the Functional Range Systems. This system is helping lead that critical thinking movement on how to best prepare your body for whatever it is that you want to do. We talk about the train...
Following Your Passion, #DoAnything with Christina Gonzalez
July 10, 2020 11:00 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBOn this episode I speak with one of my favorite people and great friends, Christina Gonzalez. Christina is an avid athlete and coach working with a wide demographic of clients. She is also a Functional Range Systems Instructor helping educate the world on one of the leading thought processes in the fitness industry today. And I cannot think of anyone better for the job! There are few people who dedicate themselves to their craft and career like Christina does. She is an exemplary coach an...
Athlete Development: Youth to the Pros
June 19, 2020 16:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBOn the episode I talk with Kyle Brennan, Player Development Coach for the Huston Astros. Kyle and I first met playing summer baseball together in Allentown, PA. We were both catchers and had a mind towards exercise and nutrition. Fast forward a few years and now we are both in the exercise field trying to pay it forward so that athlete's can have brighter futures. Kyle's passion for the sport and intelligence is evident in the conversation as well as his light personality! In this episode ...
Move Well Mini Episode: The Load vs. Capacity Principle
June 12, 2020 16:00 - 10 minutes - 7.39 MBThe Move Well Mini Series consists of short, about 10 minutes long, episodes dedicated to teasing out some topics or principles that I feel are really important and need to be address thoroughly or more often. In this episode I talk about the Load vs. Capacity Principle that is foundational to understanding exercise, or movement task, success or injury. It is a pretty simple concept but often is forgotten or overlooked by products, services, or fancy techniques promising miracles. Understan...
Advancing Occupational Therapy: The Evolution of the Individualized Model
June 05, 2020 23:00 - 37 minutes - 26.1 MBOccupational Therapists deal with a wide variety of patients and circumstances. Overall, they help people return to their daily or occupational lives after a health issue. It is not uncommon to see a therapy model that seems to be more focused on productivity standards and patients seen per day than actually providing the care that the patients need. In this episode I speak with Hannah Corbacio, OT, about the current state of the therapy world and what its limitations are to the practitione...
Movement Problems Require Movement Solutions: Danelle Warner on Manual Therapy
May 23, 2020 16:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBDanelle Warner might be one of the BEST manual therapists I know in the country. There are very few people who are as passionate, knowledgeable, and skilled as she is. On top of all of that, she is one of the sweetest people you will ever meet. She is a Licensed Massage Therapist and owner of Antidote Functional Therapies located in Cleveland, OH where she specializes in mobility restoration. She is also a completely certified Functional Range Release Practitioner. She has covered every co...
Breathing Well = Moving Well: Nick Hair on Breathing Mechanics
May 11, 2020 15:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MBBreathing? Don't we just do that naturally? The answer is yes. However, that passive mentality towards breathing has probably led to more harm than good. Nick Hair, returns for part 2 to enlighten us on a topic we overlook everyday. But, it is one foundational of life itself and perhaps the key to improving the quality of our lives. In this Episode we cover: Breathing and the difference between breathing through the nose vs. the mouth The importance of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide, and how b...
Moving Well for the Military: Nick Hair on Training for the Marines
May 04, 2020 02:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBNick Hair is one of the best trainers and humans I have ever met. His passion for his calling is second to none and you won't find a nicer, kinder person behind eyes with such fire. Nick is preparing for the Marines and we talk about the detail in the preparation process. We challenge some "traditional" training that tends to leave potential candidates more broken than healthy and prepared. In this Episode, we cover: Nick's athletic background and how it guided him to become a Trainer Kin...
Chat with Matt: Matt Ulawski
April 24, 2020 22:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBFor my first guest episode I am super happy to have on Matt Ulawski. Matt and I connected over instagram and through the Functional Range Systems education. One of the things that I love about FRS, and my coaching journey, is the people I meet and friends I make. I have truly been blessed to have met and stayed in touch with people like Matt who are among the most brilliant and progressive minds of our time. What strikes me hardest though, as you will come to find out, is how human these in...