Mountain Ready
$50
Your body adapts to exactly what you train for. This 10-week program applies that principle to mountaineering — building aerobic fitness, CO2 tolerance, and movement efficiency using evidence-based protocols designed by a DPT and professional mountain guide.
Ready to train with purpose? — 10 weeks · evidence-based · built for the mountains
Delivered as a set of illustrated digital guides you work through at your own pace.
About Mountain Ready
Your body adapts to exactly what you ask it to do. This is known as the SAID principle; Specific Adaptations to Imposed Demands.
General fitness is a foundation, but the mountains demand a lot of skill and efficiency with movement that are neglected in general fitness routines.
As a Doctor of Physical Therapy and a professional mountaineering guide, I understand the demands of the sport, the injuries most likely to occur, and exactly how to build fitness that holds up under real mountain conditions. I’m not a doctor with a climbing hobby or a climber with a training hobby. I am one and the same.
What you’ll cover:
Aerobic Foundations — Your ability to sustain effort for 8+ hours on the mountain starts with building the right engine first. You’ll learn your MAF threshold, aerobic threshold, and lactate threshold — and how to train each zone to develop an aerobic base that doesn’t burn out halfway up.
Breathing & CO2 Tolerance — At 14,000 feet, your body has access to roughly 60% of the oxygen available at sea level. This module covers nasal breathing, the Bohr effect, and specific breathwork protocols — CO2 tables, O2 tables, and box breathing — that train your body to use oxygen more efficiently before you ever leave home.
Biomechanics & Movement Efficiency — Inefficient movement burns energy you can’t afford to waste. You’ll work through tensegrity principles, posture mechanics, and mountain-specific drills — single-leg balance, lunge RNT, hinge and squat patterns, crawling — that reduce wasted effort with every step.
Strength & Resilience — Strength builds the capacity to handle heavy packs, hard moves, and technical terrain without breaking down. The program includes upper body, core, and lower body work targeted at the specific demands of mountain climbing.
Progressive 10-Week Structure — The program moves through three phases: an aerobic base phase (Weeks 1–6), a Zone 3 intensity phase (Weeks 7–8), and a taper and peak phase (Weeks 9–10) — with built-in recovery weeks and a day-by-day schedule so you always know what comes next.
10-week, self-guided course. Delivered as a set of illustrated digital guides you work through at your own pace.
Enroll in Mountain Ready – $50Frequently Asked Questions
Training volume builds progressively across the 10 weeks. Recovery weeks (Weeks 3, 6, and 9) run about 2–3 hours of aerobic work. Base-building weeks range from 4.5 to 8 hours. Peak weeks can exceed that. Biomechanics and breathwork sessions are additional but generally short — 20–45 minutes. The program includes a day-by-day schedule, so you always know exactly what’s on deck.
No. This is a training program, not clinical treatment. That said, it was designed by a Doctor of Physical Therapy who also works as a professional mountaineering guide — so injury awareness and movement quality are built into the program in a way most training plans aren’t. If you’re dealing with an active injury or medical condition, check with your provider before starting.
Most general fitness — running, lifting, cycling, even HIIT — isn’t specifically designed for what mountaineering demands. This program is built around the SAID principle: your body adapts to exactly what you train for. If your previous training wasn’t specific to sustained aerobic effort, efficient movement under load, and altitude breathing mechanics, then you likely haven’t tried this approach.
The program includes some foundational context — how heart rate zones work, how CO2 tolerance affects performance at altitude, why posture affects efficiency. It’s not dense, but it’s there because Bradford’s view is that understanding the mechanism makes you better at executing the practice. If you’re willing to read a few pages to get more out of your training sessions, you’ll be fine.
Most mountaineering training focuses on one thing — usually cardio or strength. This program integrates three areas that are rarely addressed together: aerobic base training built around heart rate zones, CO2 tolerance and breathing mechanics specific to altitude, and biomechanics training designed around mountain movement patterns. Bradford developed it from his combined experience as a DPT and professional guide, not from one side of that equation.
Lifetime. You pay once, you own it forever. Revisit it as your understanding grows or when you face new challenges.
14-day money-back guarantee. If this isn’t what you’re looking for, email within 14 days for a full refund. No questions asked.
The program is 10 weeks. Most people will start noticing changes in their breathing efficiency and sustained effort capacity in the first few weeks. Peak performance is designed to land right at the end of Week 10.
Course at a Glance
WHAT’S INCLUDED
— Self-paced digital program — work on your schedule
— 4 illustrated training guides (orientation, breathing, biomechanics, exercise library)
— Day-by-day 10-week schedule
— Email and phone access to Bradford throughout
MEET YOUR TEACHER
Dr. Bradford Thomas, DPT
– Doctor of Physical Therapy
– Human Biomechanics Specialist – HBS2
– Studied Positional Release therapy, fascial counter strain and advanced myofascial release techniques
– Professional Mountain, Rock, Splitboard guide
