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Published: May 19, 2014, 6 a.m.

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I was honored and excited to interview the great Steve Bechtel, a long-time climber and trainer who knows his stuff when it comes to getting strong, honing in on individual training needs, and\xa0staying lean, among many other things. Steve runs\xa0ClimbStrong.com, a website where he writes articles and training programs for climbers. You can\xa0subscribe to the site\xa0to get full access to all of his info. He also runs a gym in Lander, WY called\xa0Elemental Fitness, where he works with climbers and athletes of all kinds.

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I've been following Steve's\xa0stuff for a while, and I post his articles on our own Facebook page because I consider him an expert in a field that has very few experts (climbing training). But I wanted to interview him partially for selfish reasons - I'll be honest ;) We took a few minutes of the interview to use me as sort of a guinea pig. I asked him what he'd do with me right now while I'm trying to send a powerful, pretty short route at my limit. He gave me some great advice.

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I also asked him as many other technical questions as I could, and tried to make those questions applicable to as many people as possible, so you can take some usable advice from this conversation. After all, that's the mission of TrainingBeta: practical training advice. Steve has\xa0worked with a lot of climbers through the years, so he doesn't have any problems rattling off big scientific words and answers to all of our common climbing training questions. Hopefully we'll talk again on the show soon!

\nWhat We Talked About\n

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• How and why he learned so much about training
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• How he approaches new training clients
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• How to train power endurance and overall fitness
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• What he'd do with me as a client to help me send my current project
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• Whether or not running is good for climbing
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• How to lose weight for climbing
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• That our conversation was really awesome and we want to do it again soon
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\nRelated Links\n

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• Steve's website is Climb Strong at\xa0www.climbstrong.com
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• Climb Strong on Facebook:\xa0www.facebook.com/climbstrong
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• Steve's gym in Lander is Elemental Performance and Fitness at\xa0http://lmntl.net
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• Steve's book (on Amazon) about training power endurance:\xa0LINK
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\nMusic\n

Intro and outro song:\xa0Yesterday by Build Buildings\xa0

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Portrait of Steve Bechtel by\xa0Mei Ratz

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Thanks for listening!

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