Category : Training

Just before New Year’s Eve Jur came home to celebrate the holydays with his friends and family and to recall two very successful summit attempts. The last weeks where great because of the 2 victories but just as much interesting because of all the important things we have learned. Many...

Climbing mountains in not a sort of game which can be stopped at any time. Even if you are at the limits of your endurance, if your legs feel like lead, if your head is spinning with exhaustion you cannot say, I’m giving up. It is the hardest rule to...

It is getting closer and closer. In about 4 weeks from now Jur will start his biggest adventure in life. We are working very hard on the final preparations. Logistics is very challenging but it looks like everything is falling into place. So exciting! Because it is only 1 month...

Last Friday Endvr. organized a workshop on the Wim Hof Method. A method we definitely want to investigate and also implement during our preparations for next years 7-Summits challenge. Together with 25 sponsors, followers and friends we experienced the method by learning the specific breathing technique and practicing the hyper...

In our previous blog we took a closer look at what fatigue is. Besides the theory of the causes and outcome of fatigue in the body, I hope you also had the change to take this theory with you while training and already tried to focus on what you where...

After a few weeks of training it starts to get quite noticeable we aim for higher goals. It should be self-evident that the higher the goals, the harder the work that needs to be done. While doing this hard work we aim perilously close for the boundary of physical and...

After a try out expedition that couldn’t be more interesting, it is now time to take the next step in training. The last couple of weeks on the Khan Tengri mountain gave us plenty of knew knowledge on what to expect and how both guys react under these though conditions....

“Every Alpinist who climbs 8,000-meter peaks searches for ways to prepare the body so that it will adjust to the variables. The environment at extreme altitudes is as alien as outer space; the dynamics play out in ways that we cannot fully understand. A mountaineer can only hope that a...

Now that we increased the training load, the recovery between training sessions has become more and more important. In addition to the practice of physical labor, it is also a matter of training to ensure that the recovery proceeds optimally. Recovery consists of 3 important components; nutrition, rest and time....