Calling all climbing team coaches!

Hello All,

I am coach of a couple of gyms in the north east and I wanted to reach out to the coaching community. I believe we can all do our jobs better by knowing how each other does theirs. How do you run your team? what kind of exercises do you do? how many practices do you have? ect.

I believe if we can do some sort of collaboration we can help improve all our kids training and build stronger climbers!

So my team runs as such:
we meet once a week for three hours
cardio warm up at the beginning followed by a traversing warm up. Once we have done this we stretch and then I introduce what we are doing that week. I usually focus on a specific technique or idea and build climbing games/drills to work said skills. (i.e. lock off training, high step, balance, foot work, contact strength) we usually climb using these drills for about an hour- hour and a half. Once done we divide up the remaining time between abs, hip flexors, and assorted cross training circuits (i.e. pull ups, burpees, wall sits, dips, etc.) at the end of team we usually do a mediation cool down where we focus on our breathing and climbing for the day, working on training our minds to focus during the climb.

So lets here it guys/gals, how do you coach your team?

M-
I like the spirit of the thought but there's probably too many discrepancies between climbing teams to make talking about programing all that productive at a team level.
(For example our team is comprised of 70 kids that range in ability from struggling up a 9 on TR to onsighting 13-. So even our squad is broken into 5 sub-groups that all have different schedules and training demands)

Now if a bunch of us all got together and put more pressure on USA climbing, I'd be happy to support that.

And then there's also USA climbing's new coach certification program that is going into effect soon. So hopefully our national climbing organization will do a little more to provide some resources to it's athletes as well as coaches.