Honest, science-backed answers to the questions mountain athletes actually ask. No marketing fluff. No filler. Cited research, practical application, the occasional embedded calculator.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Honest comparison. What AI training programs do well, what human guides do well, and the hybrid model serious mountain athletes actually use.
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.
The physiology, the three real acclimatisation strategies, the climb-high-sleep-low rule, prevention tips that actually work, and a free daily-ascent calculator.
Most alpine injuries happen on the way down. The science, the specific exercises, and how to add eccentric work to your training week.
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.