Most of us have suffered from it at some point and if you haven’t, you will know someone who has. But what can we do about it?

As an Adventure Professional®, you will spend a significant amount of time leading a teaching people in environments that can often prompt feelings of fear. Understanding fear will better equip you to predict its appearance, understand your clients when they are experiencing this and to handle it better when they do.

Overtraining is the result of insufficient recovery. It is characterised by the athlete’s progress ceasing and, often, fitness decreasing!

When it comes to training (or performing) we can break down effort into levels, or zones. This allows us top describe a level (or zone) of effort or intensity that we want a workout performed at.

It’s often not considered very “in” to strength train as a cyclist, never mind the struggle to find the time to hit the gym instead of getting on the bike.

Some discussion on training Benchmarks and Tracking Training Metrics.

Motivation, like most emotions has peaks and troughs.

If you think that your job as an Adventure Professional is just instructing and / or guiding clients in the outdoors, then you’re missing some major opportunities.

Can’t you just climb more for training?