Alex Honnold

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Science Friday · How extreme athletes like Alex Honnold keep their cool · 9 Jun 2026 podcast

I mean, especially if you include the mental side, if that includes technique and sort of execution, like how you climb.

But certainly there's a big component to managing fear and there's a lot that goes into it.

So, I mean, I think climbing more than most sports has a big psychological component.

Climbing is now an Olympic sport, so technically you should be working with climbers now.

No.

I mean, to be fair, climbing has only very recently become an Olympic sport.

And it's always historically been quite a fringe activity.

And so there wasn't a lot of even athletic training.

I mean, that's beginning to change.

And there's definitely a lot more support for climbing now than there was when I started.

But hardly anybody has any kind of mental coaching, let alone physical.

You know, it's all up and coming.

Well, personally, it's just been practice over time.

I mean, I've been climbing basically five days a week for 30 years.

So you just, you know, it's a lot of practice.

But I've also read a lot of books about, you know, peak performance.

And, you know, basically I read a ton of self-help type, like anything around performance and, you know, living your best life, all those kinds of things.

And then you try to pick up, you know, one useful lesson per book you read, basically.

I mean, as a climber, you kind of develop all the things that you're used to using.

I mean, you get scared and then you take a deep breath.

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