Macke Fitness

Training with BethanyI highly recommend training with Bethany for anyone who is interested in a more mindful, focused and efficient way to structure your strength and climbing training. I’ve always just “climbed” and not thought too much about how I was training or how it would affect my overall climbing. Bethany took my amorphous desire to improve and helped me tailor my goals to more concrete outcomes. She also assessed and tailored my workouts to my skill level. We were able to focus on areas of improvement, and at the same time, she explained simply and easily the workouts, their purpose, their effect on my body. As we went, Bethany carved out time to explain things like energy systems and how to train them. I’m a person who loves to know what I am doing and its purpose. So this made all the difference for me and it is all information that I can use moving forward with my training efforts.I started training with Bethany a few months ago and have seen huge improvements in not just my strength and coordination, but also my focus, and my strategy in approaching how I climb. For example, Bethany worked closely with me on my “head game” or mental aspects of climbing and ways to move past my fears of falling and clipping by integrating a new way of approaching the climb. She also helped me focus on areas of my body that have always felt weak but I haven’t really known how to train, like my hips and mid-back. She observed my range of motion and movement and tailored exercises to target those areas — all virtual by the way, which is impressive!Bethany is great to work with, both encouraging and motivating. She answered all my random questions and has made a huge difference in how I approach climbing as a sport as well as how I approach even daily movement/exercise.Again, cannot recommend highly enough.