RISE provides an experience based, literature-backed approach to your climbing growth and athletic betterment

Coach Mia synthesizes her extensive climbing experience with her passion for academia, providing you with an approach driven by the knowledge she’s acquired from her and her athletes’ climbing, and from the most up-to-date literature on sports science. In her free time, Mia avidly reads studies on nutrition, physiology, mindset, and strength training to address your training needs as her most informed self.

The components of performance look different for everyone, but can generally be articulated by three categories: strength, skill, and mindset.

Following a holistic evaluation in each of these categories, I’ll work with you to address the ways in which you need to grow to climb harder and perform better — through on-wall drills, video analysis, strengthening, movement education, and general guidance.

  • Skill/technical ability is your capacity to apply your physical capabilities to climbing movements. Coordination, tension, timing, footwork, beta reading and more compose this category that plays heavily into one’s ability to climb hard and perform well.

  • Also described as physical capacity, this category is the raw force output your body has across different planes of movement - pushing and pulling in your upper and lower body, core strength and stability, finger strength, and mobility.

    How hard can you pull and push?

    In what ranges of motion can you pull/push that hard?

  • Mindset is a key element to high level performance, yet is so often overlooked. Infinite physical strength and technical skill will only get you so far if your mind inhibits you from applying them.

    As your coach, I’ll explore concepts with you such as presence, curiosity, patience, learning, motivation, the cruciality of failure, the power of belief, and how to navigate comparison against both others and your past-selves. Together, we’ll arrive at a new place in which your mind is your greatest asset and least limiting factor in moments of climbing performance.