Route Visualization - Mental Rehearsal

Goal: The brain barely distinguishes vivid imagination from execution - use it to burn sequences in without skin cost.

Protocol

• Work: 3 minutes of eyes-closed visualization of your project
• Rest: 1 minute
• Reps: 3 per set
• Sets: 2

How to visualize

1. First person view - see your hands on the holds, not yourself from outside.
2. Include detail: grip type, foot placements, clipping stances, breathing points.
3. Feel the effort: tension in the crux, the shake-out at the rest.
4. Always finish the route in your mind - rehearse success, not falling.

Best done relaxed (evening, after box breathing). Before redpoint attempts, one quick run-through resets the sequence.