New YouTube video doing some hardcore new routing in wild Scottish conditions with Magnus Mitdbø. davemacleod.com/blog/magnus

Looking forward to joining that club.

New YouTube video, asking the question; when is a climber ready to lead trad? Fun day out climbing with Mike Boyd. davemacleod.com/blog/learningt…

My course on movement technique for climbers is finally ready. Free video series from it available here: altitudeclimbing.com/dave-macleod-s…

Anna Wells Completes Winter Munro Round: Anna Wells has successfully finished her winter Munro round, becoming the fourth person - and the first woman - to complete a round of all 282 Scottish… ukclimbing.com/news/2024/03/a…

New video about how I do route setting on the board, how I use climbing walls for endurance circuits and sandbagging myself while setting a new hard circuit!
davemacleod.com/blog/setting

Another win for tea. Oh wait, what are tea bags made of?

If you eat in McDonald's don’t eat the fries. Just order the burger patties, no bun, no sauce. And tea (of course).

A hugely underappreciated global health emergency. Probably because public health is still stumbling to find an approach to tackling it that will make any impact. A wicked problem that will soon bankrupt the NHS regardless of funding inputs.

A few weeks ago I picked up a finger pulley injury. I made an episode about how I work around it to keep training and hold on to most of my form while I recover. davemacleod.com/blog/pulleyinj…

A film I made about Caitlin Connor, training for the ice climbing world cups. Hard to stay behind the camera and not join in the training! davemacleod.com/blog/caitlin

Jings. Not a great stat for Taylor Swift.

That face!

Rest days - we all need them at some point. But how many and what activities should they contain? In this video, I introduce a framework for judging what effective recovery should look like.

davemacleod.com/blog/rest

A summary of research findings by @drhelendodd for the University of Exeter in conjunction with UK Research and Innovation states that 'Children play most adventurously in natural spaces (trees, forests, woodland and/or grassy spaces)'. Have you noticed this with children playing outdoors? Let us know!

This is also a question I would like to see investigated in the field of eating disorders among athletes.

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Still a few tickets left for my climbing workshops and talks in London this Saturday. See some of you there!

Yep. I’m getting the Roy Bridge - Euston sleeper next week. First time in years because work client paying. I could never afford to travel this way myself regularly.

Year over year growth for the total global, urban, and rural population. fao.org/faostat/en/#da…