Harness Your Inner Mountain Goat
A Mountain Based Approach to Training
IFMGA Guide Esteban ‘Topo’ Mena says it the best:
"If there is one thing that all forms of going up the mountain have in common, that is the preparation. There are no excuses to come underprepared, when the opportunity comes to make your dream come true." — Topo
Why train?
It's hard to get results and to improve without consistency and guidance. Billy Goat offers evidence based methods to improve performance without getting injured in the process. For accountability and encouragement, because training alone is hard.
Alpenglow Expeditions Mountain Guides have given their feedback as to what would best prepare novice to advance aspiring climbers. Billy Goat Swift Custom Training Plans have helped over dozens of climbers reach their potential and prepare solidly before arriving to base camp.
How to get Started:
Fill Out the Google Form AEX Consult
Schedule on Calendly
Decide which level of training best supports your previous level of experience and matches your goals.
Let a professional coach help you through the process of making your dreams come true.
-Carla Perez
training plans
Intro Mountaineering
Level: Beginner/Intermediate
5-9 hours per week of independent workouts
Gym workouts emphasize strengthening muscle groups required for long days wearing a pack and the strength and endurance required in a multi day mountaineering trip.
Pre-programmed training plans for these specific Alpenglow trips:
Peru & Ecuador Climbing School,
Alpamayo & Quitaraju Expedition
Climbing Kilimanjaro
Everest Base Camp Trek
Climb Mount Elbrus
Custom PDF for organization and accountability
Primary Focus: Building base fitness and strength required for climbing a mountain. Use of Cardio Machines, Hiking, and Strength Training.
$175 /Month
Fully Personalized
Level: Advanced
9-15 hours per week of independent workouts
The perfect plan for a person with a base level of fitness that is looking to improve performance, goals of higher elevation peaks, and/or competition level racing.
Entirely individualized program for Alpenglow’s Rapid Ascent Trips:
Mount Everest
Ama Dablam, Cho You, Lhakpa Ri
Aconcagua Rapid Ascent
Cotopaxi Rapid Ascent
Training Peaks online format for organization and accontability
Primary Focus: Emphasis on training while using the hypoxic tents for acclimatization, working with Alpenglow’s high altitude doctor, and staying healthy as well as fit prior to the trip.
$250 /month
2023
Completed Ironman California after 10 years of Triathlons
meet your trainer
Half Dome, YNP
Learned quickly about big days early on. Left Fresno in the dark, hiked the cables (pre permits) and drove home beofre parents got back from work.
The Beginnings: Fresno, California:
After playing soccer, I found swimming and water polo in high school. Grew up backpacking from an early age in the Sierra Nevada.
2007-2009
Met Logan and Climbed
I studied Ecology in Yellowstone and worked in an outdoor gear store. We took many months to live in a van and climb all over Utah & Wyoming
2010-13
Yosemite, Tuolumne Meandows
I spent so much time learning how to lead rock climb on traditional gear. I had never been in a gym or gone sport climbing, but it felt like a natural place to be in the High Sierra.
2017
Become a Mother and worked as a Physical Therapist Assistant at the Tahoe Forest Hospital. A new chapter of how to balance time in the mountains with being a parent.
UC Berkeley 2002-06
I Studied abroad in Tasmania, and it was my first intro to outdoor rock climbing and loved it! I came back to climb in Yosemite and hike the JMT.
Are you on your Road to Everest?
What does the Timeline of your life and goals look like?
Everyone has their own path, even if it crosses similar routes with others. I believe there is no one way to complete big or small goals that are important. Get professional coaching to help with those goals!
2009-2011
Intro to Mountain Guiding, learned how to Backcountry Ski, and worked for Shasta Mountain Guides
2011 -2015
Growth in Many Ways
There were many injuries along the way and a good way to re-direct was to learn new activities to stay fit. I became a Certified Personal Trainer, Started school for Physical Therapy.
2015
I started to learn how to aid climb in Utaho Desert Towers, but it was a dream of mine to climb El Cap before I was 30 y/o. It took a few couple extra years, but was a culmnation of so many skills and still to this day sets the bar for the meaning of TRY HARD
I was able to join Logan on many of his training trips during his journey becoming an IFAMGA Mountain Guide. SkiHut trips becoming a #1 Favorite all of the type of “expeditions”.
2022
Full Time Remote Coach and Trainer as Billy Goat Swift for Alpenglow Expeditions
2025
Climbed Aconcagua with Alpenglow Expeditions
contact us
Questions? Feel free to reach out, we would love to chat more about which Alpenglow Expeditions trip you have planned and how we can help you train for your future goals.
lynette@billygoatswift.com