Posts tagged climbing injuries

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 getting injured. I’ll make another video further down the recovery process, and if you have questions, do leave a comment and I’ll try and address them.

injuries, Make or Break, training, training for climbing, vlogsDave MacLeod29 February 2024injuries, climbing injuries, training for climbingComment

Fast recovery from my elbow injury

My annoying tennis elbow improved enough to start bouldering regularly again a month ago. Since then I feel like its stronger every session. A good feeling. In this session I keep on with working through the established problems on my board, building up to starting on the projects. At the end I’m getting close to my Pjs on the fingerboard, which is kind of surprising to me, but great! I also go through some of your questions about training from my last full session vlog episode. If you have more, leave a comment here on my YouTube.

BTW Did you subscribe to my YouTube channel yet? Lots more videos sharing climbing, training, nutrition and nice routes and mountains coming in 2022.

bouldering, Edge hangboards, fingerboard, hangboards, injuries, motivation, nutrition, training for climbing, trainingDave MacLeod6 January 2022training, training for climbing, bouldering, injuries, climbing injuries Comments

Injured. What now?

I got injured. So what do I do now? Some ideas for how to manage the recovery.

Ben Nevis, elbow injuries, injuries, training, training for climbing, vlogsDave MacLeod13 May 2020injuries, climbing injuries, training, training for climbingComment

How I deal with setbacks

Trying hard projects, hard goals, hard training all means encountering problems, setbacks and the mental challenges these bring. How you respond to them determines whether they upset your progress, or propel it. In this episode (Vlog #22) I go through my approach, which is pretty simple.

injuries, mental skills, motivation, training, vlogs, mental trainingDave MacLeod18 September 2019mental training, mental skills, training for climbing, climbing injuriesComment

AC Joint grade 3 separation - successful rehab protocol

I had a severe (grade 3) AC joint separation in 2017. I followed a careful rehab programme and was back to reasonably hard climbing (8b) in six weeks and normal climbing (V14) in 12 weeks, well ahead of schedule. In this episode, I share what I did, when and why.

injuries, Make or Break, vlogs, shoulder injuriesDave MacLeod31 August 2019climbing injuries, shoulder injuries, ac joint, Acromioclavicular joint, ac joint separation, ac joint separation grade 3 rehab Comments