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Pemba Sherpa — Conditioning & Endurance

Conditioning & Endurance

Pemba Sherpa

Easy days easy. That is the whole secret, and nobody wants to hear it.

Pemba spent nine seasons guiding at altitude before he ever wrote a training plan, which is where his conviction about aerobic base comes from.

He runs Engine and the conditioning half of Metcon, and he holds the studio’s heart-rate caps with an unpopular firmness that has produced most of our best two-kilometre times.

Coaching since2015
At VAJRA2021
LanguagesNepali, English, Sherpa

Certifications

UESCA Endurance Sports Coach
UESCA
2019
Wilderness First Responder
WFR
2023
Nepal Mountaineering Association Trekking Guide
NMA
2013

Certifications shown are illustrative sample data for this template. A live studio should publish only what it can evidence.

What Pemba coaches

  • Aerobic base
  • Interval prescription
  • Altitude and trek preparation

Blocks led

C-01

Engine

Eight weeks building the base under everything else.

8 wks
L-01

Metcon

Ten weeks of conditioning that respects your lifting.

10 wks

Timetable

Pemba on the floor this week

DayTimeSessionRoomSpots
Mon 12:15–13:05 Engine — easy Conditioning 4 left
Tue 06:00–06:55 Metcon — intervals Conditioning 3 left
Tue 17:30–18:25 Metcon — intervals Conditioning Full
Thu 19:00–19:50 Engine — intervals Conditioning 4 left
Sat 07:00–08:15 Metcon — mixed Conditioning 1 left
Sat 10:00–11:15 Engine — long easy Roof 5 left

Evidence

Members coached

A member setting her position over a loaded bar

Anita Tamang

Nine kilos down with her deadlift up eighteen.

A member fastening a wrist wrap before a working set

Kiran Adhikari

A resting heart rate of 51 and a trek he did not have to stop on.

A first working set under the bar, the room dark behind it

Start here

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