A Climber’s Mind with Mat Wright
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Podcast Overview
<p><strong>I’m Mat Wright - a climbing coach focused on real outdoor performance.</strong></p><p>A Climber’s Mind explores what actually drives progression on rock - beyond generic training advice.</p><p>Through personal stories from my own climbing, and lessons from coaching, I break down the mental, technical, and tactical factors that separate effort from real results.</p><p>This isn’t about doing more. It’s about working on the right things, at the right time.</p><p>Each episode gives you practical insights you can apply immediately to your own climbing, whether you’re projecting your first 7a or pushing into your hardest routes.</p><p></p><p>If you’re interested in working with me, you can find more at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://matwrightcoaching.com">matwrightcoaching.com</a></p>
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Recent Episodes
May 27, 2026
I'm Not Anti-Training
<p>In this episode, I reflect on my recent conversation with Mike Boyd and use it as a starting point to clarify something important about my coaching philosophy.</p><p>I think some climbers may have interpreted my message as being against physical training - but that isn’t the point at all. Physical training is absolutely crucial if you want to peak. At some point, you have to raise the ceiling, get stronger, and build the physical qualities required for the climbs you want to do.</p><p>But for many climbers, physical capacity isn’t the only thing holding them back - and often, it isn’t the biggest thing either.</p><p>A lot of climbers are already leaving huge amounts of performance on the table through poor tactics, rushed projecting, fear, pressure, lack of clarity, poor recovery, lifestyle stress, emotional attachment to outcomes, and an inability to properly express the ability they already have.</p><p>So this episode is not anti-training.</p><p>It’s anti-blind training.</p><p>It’s about understanding the full picture before deciding what the next intervention should be. Sometimes the answer is physical training. Sometimes it’s tactics. Sometimes it’s technique. Sometimes it’s mindset. Sometimes it’s rest, recovery, or a better relationship with the process.</p><p>As always, diagnosis comes first. Then the right intervention at the right time.</p>
May 20, 2026
Mike Boyd: Fatherhood, Stress & Climbing Performance
<p>In this episode of A Climber’s Mind, I sit down with Mike Boyd for a very honest conversation about climbing, having a newborn baby, career pressure, identity, stress, relationships, money, and what performance looks like when life changes dramatically.</p><p>We use the conversation almost like a live coaching/diagnostic session. Mike initially felt like endurance might be one of the main things holding his climbing back, but as we dug deeper, the bigger bottleneck seemed to be stress, life load, and the effect this can have on the nervous system.</p><p>One of the biggest themes in this episode is that a physical symptom does not always mean a physical cause. You might feel pumped, tense or inefficient on the wall, but the deeper issue might be stress, pressure, poor recovery, fear, identity, or simply the reality of trying to perform while life is demanding more from you.</p><p>This is a conversation about balancing passion with real life, managing ambition, and learning to diagnose what is actually limiting your performance.</p><p>New episodes every Wednesday.</p>
May 13, 2026
Climbing Feels Different Now
<p>Over the last couple of months, a lot has changed in my life.</p><p>I’ve been balancing the start of this podcast alongside a fairly structured training phase, whilst also trying to organise my life and coaching in a much more deliberate way. In the process, I’ve realised how much low-level pressure and friction I’d been carrying around for years without fully noticing it.</p><p>In this episode, I speak more openly about where I’m currently at psychologically with climbing, performance, identity and motivation.</p><p>I talk about:</p><ul><li>why climbing feels different to me right now</li><li>the relationship between attention and performance</li><li>how organisation changed my mindset more than I expected</li><li>insecurity, pressure and emotional attachment to climbing</li><li>why I no longer feel threatened by stronger climbers</li><li>and where I want to take the podcast moving forwards</li></ul><p>This episode is also a transition point for the podcast itself.</p><p>The first 10 episodes were a chance for me to explore ideas, learn how to record/edit and slowly find my voice. The next phase will involve more collaborative and exploratory conversations with other climbers - looking deeper into the psychology, identity, fear, obsession and motivations behind performance.</p><p>I’m really excited to see where it goes from here.</p>
12 total episodes available
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- What is A Climber’s Mind with Mat Wright?
<p><strong>I’m Mat Wright - a climbing coach focused on real outdoor performance.</strong></p><p>A Climber’s Mind explores what actually drives progression on rock - beyond generic training advice.</p><p>Through personal stories from my own climbing, and lessons from coaching, I break down the mental, technical, and tactical factors that separate effort from real results.</p><p>This isn’t about doing more. It’s about working on the right things, at the right time.</p><p>Each episode gives you practical insights you can apply immediately to your own climbing, whether you’re projecting your first 7a or pushing into your hardest routes.</p><p></p><p>If you’re interested in working with me, you can find more at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://matwrightcoaching.com">matwrightcoaching.com</a></p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates daily.
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