What separates me from other coaches is experience. I've worked at gyms in Colorado, Connecticut, and New York City as a head youth coach, fitness manager, and routesetter. I've climbed outside all over the United States and in Canada and Mexico (hard to pick a favorite but it's hard to beat the steep endless walls of The Red). I've placed in the American Bouldering Series and other professional competition circuits including Dark Horse and Ring of Fire. I've read dozens of programming textbooks cover-to-cover--Tudor's Periodization, Rippetoe's Practical Programming, and Tuchscherer's Reactive Training Systems, to name a few--and adapted those protocols into climbing programs. I've tested those programs on both myself and hundreds of clients. I live and breathe climbing (I'm on the road most of the year going from crag-to-crag and running training blocks in between) and I know what works (and what doesn't!)