Resources

Training guides for mountain athletes

Honest, science-backed answers to the questions mountain athletes actually ask. No marketing fluff. No filler. Cited research, practical application, the occasional embedded calculator.

Objective Guide · Alps

Training for Mont Blanc

What 4810m, a 12-hour summit day, and a 1800m descent actually demand. The five-dimension training profile, common mistakes, and how to structure 12-16 weeks of preparation.

9 min read
Objective Guide · Himalaya

Training for Mera Peak

What 6476m, an 8-14 hour summit day, and a 10-day trek-in actually demand. Honest plan for Nepal's highest "trekking peak" - which is anything but easy.

9 min read
Objective Guide · Andes

Training for Aconcagua

What 6961m, a 14-hour summit day, and a 17-21 day expedition with weighted load carries actually demand. Honest plan for the highest peak outside Asia.

10 min read
Product Guide

Strava Training Integration

How TTM reads your Strava data and reshapes the plan around what you actually did. Five signals, four scenarios, and what Strava still cannot show.

7 min read
Coaching

AI Coach vs Human Coach

Honest comparison. What AI training programs do well, what human guides do well, and the hybrid model serious mountain athletes actually use.

7 min read
Training Science

Heart Rate Zones for Mountaineering

Why zone 2 dominates mountaineering training, how to find your zones, the common mistakes that keep amateurs at medium-hard intensity. Includes a free zone calculator.

8 min read·Calculator inside
Training Science

Altitude Sickness Prevention

The physiology, the three real acclimatisation strategies, the climb-high-sleep-low rule, prevention tips that actually work, and a free daily-ascent calculator.

7 min read·Calculator inside
Training Science

Eccentric Training for Descent

Most alpine injuries happen on the way down. The science, the specific exercises, and how to add eccentric work to your training week.

6 min read
Training Concept

Adaptive Mountain Training: A New Category

Why static training plans fail on real mountains, what adaptive training is, and the fitness-fatigue science underneath. A primer on the model behind TTM.

7 min read