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Climbing and bouldering are intense sports and to be completely honest: the moment you push your body out of the comfort zone, it is not necessarily a healthy process. Depending a bit on the level of commitment, the question is not if you’ll get into unhealthy areas or even get injured, but more when and how severely.
Every health issue is a crisis and it’s good to have somebody to contact in that case.
We believe in a wholesome approach. We define it as a multidisciplinary big picture and not just as a „rest or quit“ philosophy.
We will get you healthy and moving again and we will set you up for higher robustness and resilience in the future.
ALTIORA HEALTH
THE BIG PICTURE - THE ALTIORA HEALTH APPROACH
The moment you’re confronted with any health or wellbeing issue in and around climbing, whether an acute injury or other circumstances, there are five aspects to keep in mind. The priorities, timing and success of those aspects are depending on the situation, but leave one out and you’ll either have a longer than necessary healing time, or the same problem might just reoccur.
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A large percentile of climbing injuries are not unexplainable leaps of faith, but have a concrete causality in technical mistakes or mismanagement of a situation. We should analyse and establish what happened, and make sure it doesn't happen again.
The other aspect: good climbing technique is not just more efficient and more effective, but due to avoidance of peaks of force, also much more sustainable and injury avoiding.
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The way you trained up until now had (quite likely) an influence on the fact that you're not well right now. We definitely should have a glimpse with an analytical eye on that. And obviously, we need a good training plan to get you fit after an acute situation (ASAP).
Many people have the idea that training is just for the elite climbers getting even stronger, or it’s only ultra specific preparation for certain projects. This is far from the truth! Training should be incorporated into the life of every climber who wants to push the personal limits. Just to make the body resilient and robust for that endeavour.
For many people their training does the opposite - it causes injuries or a lack of climbing quality. Let’s fix that.
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A health problem or an injury is always a crisis. We’re convinced that keeping that in mind will always benefit the healing process. We will not “just have a look” on the “broken“ piece of body, but also on you as a person.
It’s a fact that certain people seem to be more injury prone than others. If you look closer, it’s not because their bodies are not robust enough, but because their mindset and behavior in and around climbing leads them to unhealthy and unsustainable actions.
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If we were to point out one huge difference between other sports and climbing, in our opinion the relatively bad nutrition would be one hot candidate. The quality of our nutrition as climbers doesn’t match what we’re expecting of our bodies in many cases.
As a consequence, we face vulnerability to injuries, energy deficit, bad mentality or just too little fun and success. Don’t worry, we’re not at all talking about dieting or restricting. We’re talking about understanding the needs of your body, fuelling accordingly and amping your life quality in and around your sport.
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In the case of injuries, after the acute diagnostics and treatment, it’s time for a good physiotherapist to step in. In our cases, a therapist with a ton of experience in climbing and climbing injuries is the key. Injuries are individual and specific!
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The best coaches are not those who know everything, but those who know what they don’t know. And then, they know whom to ask.
While each of our trainers and coaches will do their absolute best, our ultimate strength at ALTIORA is our hub of different specialists.
Trainers and coaches, physiotherapists, nutrition coaches, … Depending on the case, we will sit together and develop a strategy for you. And if we don’t have the answer, we’ll have a contact who has.
Typical challenges for an ALTIORA HEALTH intervention:
You’re suffering from an acute (climbing) injury.
You’re suffering from a typical wear and tear problem, no acute injury but you’re struggling to get rid of it.
You don’t get the training results that you’re supposed to have.
You’re feeling fatigued, burned out, vulnerable or inflammation prone.
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Christoph Gotschke:
State-certified Mountain and Ski Guide (UIAGM)
German Alpine Club (DAV) National Training Team
Climbing Coach and Therapist (UMIT)
Nutrition Coach (PN1 / Precision Nutrition Level 1)
Ola Gotschke
Nutrition Coach (PN1 / Precision Nutrition Level 1)
Nutrition Specialist (Nutris)
Climbing Trainer (BMC)
Melanie Kollmann
Physiotherapist
Climbing Trainer
Max Schmid
Physiotherapist
Climbing Trainer
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Still not certain? Don’t worry, we offer a free of charge first 15 min consultation, after which you can decide if you want to work with us or not. We want to make sure you feel comfortable and we will find the arrangement that suits you best, whether a single session or a longer deal, pure coaching or a training/coaching mix, let’s figure it out together.
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