Expert Insights on Performance & Recovery
Why Your Knees Hurt on Descents
You crush the climb. Lungs burning, legs on fire.
You summit, you soak in the views you worked so hard for, and you’re feeling good.
You turn around and start heading down. And by the time you're back at the trailhead, your knees are barking and talking with every step. Sound familiar?
It Doesn't Make the Climb Any Easier
Returning from any injury can be a difficult journey and we can prepare and learn everything about our situation that we want but when push comes to shove, it's still a challenge. Psychological framing is pivotal to our success and while understanding it doesn’t make the weights any lighter, or the mountains we climb any easier, it puts us in a better position to achieve our goals!
How to Prepare for Your First 14er
For Jess and I, this was our 15th 14er, and while we aren’t strangers to elevation, there’s still plenty of physical prep that we incorporate into our training to get ready for a big climb. Here are the biggest training and physical therapy focal points we emphasize in the gym in preparation for a big elevation climb: