Coaching

Hanna Keränen

Head Coach, Route setter

Areas of expertise: technique coaching, climbing and supplemental strength training, route-reading skills, injury prevention and adapted training with an existing injury, mobility training, recovery, and body maintenance.

Hanna’s training:

• Physiotherapist B.Sc. 2024 (Metropolia University of Applied Sciences)
• Basics of Strength Training for Physiotherapists 2024 (Athletica Oy)
• How to Examine the Foot and Ankle: From Examination to Interpretation and Rehabilitation 2023 (HMT Oy)
• Expert in Gym Training Programming 2023 (T4Y)
• T4Y Movement Quality Expert 2023 (T4Y)
• PhysioPilates Level 1 Instructor Training 2022 (FIHF)

Additionally, Hanna has independently studied topics related to climbing training, supplemental training, mobility, recovery, and nutrition.

Hanna, who is also a familiar face as a route setter and general hall helper at Kaamos, works as a coach. Professionally, Hanna is an expert in movement and mobility, being a licensed physiotherapist. She graduated as a physiotherapist in June 2024 from Metropolia University of Applied Sciences. In addition, Hanna has completed several supplementary courses, particularly in training programming and supplemental training.

Hanna has over 12 years of climbing experience. She has climbed in a variety of disciplines, from competition climbing to rope climbing, trad climbing, and ice climbing, but her greatest love lies in bouldering, both indoors and outdoors. Her first outdoor climbing experience came just over a month after starting the sport, in the Lofoten Islands. Since then, outdoor bouldering has been a consistent part of her life alongside other commitments. Outdoors, Hanna has climbed a couple of routes graded at 7c difficulty.

Indoor climbing and systematic strength and climbing training have been part of Hanna’s training history for many years. She has competition climbing experience from Boulder League competitions and the Finnish Bouldering Championships in 2018, where she placed 5th! Currently, bouldering is the most prominent aspect of Hanna’s climbing. Most recently, Hanna has gained a new perspective on climbing as a route setter, which, in her own words, has developed her technical climbing skills by light years. She is happy to share this knowledge as a coach.

As a coach and physiotherapist, Hanna’s core principles are safe and progressive training, purposefully chosen exercises, fun, relaxation, the joy of learning, and a love for the sport attitude. Her particular areas of interest are skill and technique training, strength training, mobility, and considering various musculoskeletal issues and injuries when planning supplemental training for climbing. If you want to develop yourself comprehensively as a climber, you’re guaranteed to get help from Hanna for almost anything!