Remote CLIMBING Coaching:
There is no single training plan that works for every climber. Lasting improvement comes from understanding your goals, your current abilities, and the demands of the climbing you want to do. Through individualized remote coaching, we'll develop a training plan and support system that fits your lifestyle, adapts as you progress, and helps you make meaningful improvements.
Remote coaching is about more than just providing a training plan. My goal is to help you understand why you're training the way you are, develop confidence in the work that you’re doing, and build the knowledge and habits needed for long-term improvement. By combining sport science, climbing-specific expertise, and a coaching approach developed over 2 decades in the sport, you'll have the structure, and support to reach your goals.
Every coaching program begins with a comprehensive intake to learn about your climbing experience, strengths, weaknesses, training history, lifestyle, and goals. From there, we’ll work together to develop an individualized but evidence-based training plan, designed around your needs, experience, and day to day lifestyle.
Our coaching is an ongoing process, not just a training plan. You'll receive regular feedback on your sessions, continuous communication through messaging, and see your training plan react and adjust as you provide your session notes. As your fitness, performance, schedule, or goals change, your program will be adjusted accordingly, ensuring your training remains effective and realistic, and for you. Whether it's responding to unexpected setbacks, capitalizing on periods of improvement, or preparing for a big trip or competition, your training evolves and develops as you do!
Physical and mental performance are inseparable. Your strength, endurance, and technical ability determine what you're capable of, but confidence, focus, decision-making, and emotional regulation often determine whether you're able to express those abilities when it matters most. By offering the opportunity to combine climbing coaching with mental performance coaching, you can develop both aspects of your performance within a single, integrated program. After a career spent providing mental performance support professional and elite athletes across a range of outdoor sports, a Professional Doctorate in Elite Performance, and with extensive experience coaching high performance competition and outdoor climbers, I bring a unique combination of expertise that allows me to bridge the gap between physical preparation and psychological performance. Rather than treating mental skills as an afterthought, we'll integrate them into your training to help you perform with greater consistency, confidence, and resilience, both in training and on the rock.
See below for pricing and offerings. To work together, we ask for a minimum commitment of 3 months, with programming being delivered monthly after that initial period.
Remote Climbing Coaching
$300 CAD p/ month
Individualized Training Program
A fully customized, evidence-based training plan designed around your climbing discipline, available time, facilities, goals, and lifestyle.
Unlimited Coach Communication
Ongoing support through messaging to answer questions, discuss sessions, work through setbacks, and provide guidance whenever you need it.
Regular Plan Updates & Adjustments
Programs have ongoing weekly modifications, responding to performance, recovery, schedule changes, travel, setbacks, or new goals.
Performance Reviews & Goal Planning
Regular check-ins and complimentary pre/post trip or competition calls to evaluate progress, refine your strategies, reflect on growth, and ensure you're continually moving toward your long-term climbing goals.
Combined Climbing & Mental Performance Coaching $550 CAD p/ month
Everything Included in Remote Climbing Coaching
All of the support and coaching offered as part of remote climbing coaching program.
Two Monthly 50-Minute Mental Performance Sessions
Two 1 on 1 coaching sessions booked at your convenience focused on developing the psychological skills needed to manage stress, and perform confidently.
Evidence-Based Mental Skills Training
Learn practical strategies to improve confidence, focus, motivation, emotional regulation, and performance under pressure, tailored to your climbing goals.
Integrated Performance Approach
Mental performance coaching is aligned with your physical and technical training, ensuring psychological skills are developed alongside your climbing abilities.
Once you’ve booked your first training block, welcome to the Mzk Performance team! We will reach out with your intake forms, and it’s time to start working together!
Mzk Performance is proud to be based in Vancouver, British Columbia. We always list our prices in CAD, offering favourable conversion rates to clients based elsewhere. It’s important to us that you are 100% satisfied with your support from Mzk Performance, and so we offer a full refund policy.
Unfortunately, we do not currently work with clients aged younger than 13 years of age.
We are experts in performance enhancement through coaching strategies based on decades of sport psychology research. By taking a proactive approach, we don’t just help athletes recover, we ensure that they excel.
Our coaching offers an affordable service, for a fraction of the usual cost. Coaching can be expensive, especially when on the road. But we’re proud to provide daily support at a discounted rate.
The unique remote coaching system we use ensures that we’re always available. We know that our sports require a serious travel commitment, and we’re here for you. Be that in Chamonix, Squamish, or Rocklands.
As specialists in climbing, we understand your challenges. Without time spent explaining “What exactly do you do?”, then we can get straight to helping you succeed in the mountains, on competition day, or at the crag.
Are you interested in working together? Please complete this intake form to express interest in coaching, and to let me know more about you! I’ll get back to you as soon as I can regarding next steps.
You can also send me an email info@mzkperformance.com, or schedule a free consultation here to discuss if working together is the right fit for you!
What type of clients do you normally support?
We work with many different kinds of climbers, from recreational to professional, with interest varying between competitions and climbing outdoors. Our focus is always on personal growth.
Which apps are used for coaching sessions?
Mzk Performance uses Google Sheets and Whatsapp to provide our coaching services and to stay in touch about your training.
Is there a minimum commitment?
We have a 3 month minimum commitment for working together, to ensure time for changes to be made and effective gains to be realized.
Will I find remote coaching as effective as it would be in person?
More than likely, yes! There are many studies supporting it, and it’s often a better fit for our client’s busy schedules.
I had a question which wasn’t answered!
Please reach out to us at info@mzkperformance.com and we’d love to help you out!
Andrei is a mental performance expert, who holds a Bachelors of Science in Sport Science, and a Masters of Science in Applied Sport and Exercise Psychology. After a decade of experience providing sport psychology support to elite athletes, Andrei founded Mzk Performance in 2017 to address outdoor athlete’s need for high quality, evidence based, mental performance and climbing coaching. He is a Professor of Sport Science at Douglas College, a Professional Member of the Canadian Sport Psychology Association, and has over a decade of experience coaching at the highest levels of our sport.
Alongside his work in sport psychology and elite sport, Andrei is a climber and coach with over 15 years experience. His tick-list includes 5.14a (8b+) sport routes, 5.12+ (E7) trad routes, and V9 (7C) boulders, alongside coaching competition climbers at the national & international levels. As a climber, skier, and runner himself, Andrei is uniquely placed to understand the challenges facing outdoor athletes.
Outside of his professional and athletic pursuits, Andrei enjoys drinking tea, reading non-fiction, and petting cats. Having previously lived in the mountains of North Wales, he is currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia. A routine drive from world class climbing destinations such as Squamish, Bishop, and Smith Rock.
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If individual climbing coaching isn’t quite what you’re looking for, then you might want to check out our mental performance support, or contact us regarding our workshop offerings!
We’re proud to offer a wide range of options to maximize your potential, and help you perform your best wherever your sport takes you.
Still have questions about Mzk Performance’s coaching options, or just want to connect? Please reach out to info@mzkperformance.com and we’ll be happy to help!
We hope to hear from you soon!