Dave: the first thing yo do is have a quality good sleep
Me: 3: 30

Can I please come live with you? I will cook all your meals. All jokes aside I love your videos.

Video about rings training would be awesome!

This video couldn’t have come at a more perfect time, I just finished my board last week and found route setting is much harder than it looks especially when you have to make all the holds out of a block of wood but this definitely helped inspire me!!

Psyched, watching this at 1am and Dave just starts going in about sleeping and putting the screen away... Dave, I know your right but I feel so attacked right now..

You are so right. I think you cannot underestimate the factor of having fun. I was taking the total wrong approach to defining problems for years and ended up not using my wall. My "fixed" idea was to first set inspiring hard projects and then being motivated to work on them. But the problems were either way too hard or way too easy. Only recently it finally clicked in my head that for me the other way around is better. Just making up on-the-fly fun problems without any intensions except for having a quick fun session. But some of those problems sometimes turn out to be so inspiring that they become long-time projects. So for me not intending to define those "perfect" projects finally did the job of getting variety and fun and - inspiring projects.

Fab points… I find that it‘s so easy to get too engrossed in what I‘m trying to achieve that I actually forget to enjoy it… and probably don‘t get enough recovery time either. That‘s where I use training plans. They‘re not to make sure that I‘m training enough, but more to make sure that I‘m resting enough!

We need more climbing youtubers like Dave! Great content!

I really am starting to like this guy. I've been watchin his stuff quite regularly for just over a year now & he really does speak sense! It's inspirational too, like he's said on other videos if you really are going to commit to climbing harder then making bigger changes (eg moving house, building a wall, etc etc) are realistic options. Until he said (something similar to) that I just ruled it all out but now I'm working towards it. What's life for if not for realising potential & working towards dreams.

man those one arm pulllups on those crimps and those exercises on rings impressed me a lot!!! i didn't know you were that strong!!!

I just want to thank you Dave. Those videos and your personality are just so motivating. I don't know why but even if we never talked or never met, i feel like you're my friend and i feel you so close to me. I love you Dave!

Dave, you have a lot of videos on training and how you structure your sessions, but I would be curious to hear what your rest days look like - please make a video on this if you can find the time. Cheers!

Great video, thank you. Sitting here at 4am watching your video I feel you with the circadian rhythm part. Lack of sleep is one of my worst enemies. Even though we don't agree on diet, you are still one of my all-time all-round climbing heroes. Since I don't have a personal climbing wall, I started to enjoy bouldering on my office table, this can be fun as well for everybody that does not own a climbing wall. Thanks for the inspiration!

If I didn't watch this video (which I discovered before bed), I wouldn't know I shouldn't watch videos before bed in the first place 😅

I see Dave's video, I open it and first I hit like. Then I watch, and then I watch again, and then some more. Such great content!

What are your favorite hold sets you have on your board?

Yes Dave! Another great vid. Definitely agree with setting hard problems to really push yourself (and be inspired). My strength has improved for sure since putting up my beam problems and having countless sessions of struggling and getting shut down, which is part of the fun :) Still need more (quality) sleep though...

Did Dave just say that he doesn't plan / record his training days?! 17:43

Awesome!  Super timely and helpful.

Thank you Dave. Perfect timing for this video. Great and very well explained content as usual.