Dear Listener, How about -- together -- we all try to SEND 2025?

In other words, let's try to upgrade our thoughts and actions in all we do to make 2025 our best year yet!

Towards this end, in this episode I will serve up tips for improving your training, elevating your climbing, and advancing in other important life areas!

RUNDOWN

0:15 - Eric's greetings...

0:45 - Introductory comments on striving to live your dream life...in climbing and beyond.

3:38 - Upgrade #1: Improve your time management to maximize time spent engaged in important activities.

10:33 - Upgrade #2: Level-up your training by cutting the "fluff", adding some novelty, and targeting your weaknesses.

20:10 - Upgrade #3: Elevate your thoughts and take control of your self-talk to help drive massive action towards your goals.

29:50 - Upgrade #4: Refine your day-to-day nutrition to support energy, focus, strength gains, recovery ability, and injury resistance.

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37:21 - Upgrade #5: Analyze and better manage your stress levels. Strive to reduce (or eliminate) "bad stress", while seeking out and embracing sources of "good stress."

45:12 - Eric's summary tips, comments, and best wishes. Contact Eric on Instagram @eric_horst or @training4climbing -- subscribe to Eric's T4C YouTube channel.

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In this brief episode, I invite you to join my "Send 2025" New Year's Challenge!

JOIN the SEND 2025 CHALLENGE by filling out this brief Google Form >>

I designed this free 6-week challenge to help motivate and inspire a fresh, focused, and optimistic start to the new year...and hopefully help you set off on your best year ever!

The challenge is action-oriented -- so we'll ask you to set some achievable short-term goals to reach for during the 6-weeks of the challenge. These action items can relate to your training and nutrition goals for the new year, but also target bad habits you’d like to change…or other behaviors that are holding you back from reaching the next level in climbing, in your career or relationships, or any other important life area.

To serve as your North Star for this challenge, we will ask you to select a specific "Challenge Goal" for the 6 weeks of the contest, as well as set a "Send 2025 Mega Goal" that you'll be working towards throughout the year ahead. We hope that with our encouragement and support you will reach all your goals big or small!

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Thank you! La Sportiva, Maxim Ropes, DMM Climbing, Friction Labs

Music by Misty Murphy

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Check out Eric’s YouTube channel.

Follow Eric on Facebook!

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