Rob Hopkins
Profile: Snowboarder, Mountain Climber, Whiskey Drinker Injury: Broken Heel Issue: Fragile Bones I stumbled across Ascension a couple years ago when I was looking to get over a plateau in my [...]
Zak McGurk
Profile: Climber, Design Guru, Giant dog owner Injury: A really fucked leg Issue: Falling Shattered Tib Plateau, blown LCL, fractured ankle, two surgeries and 6 weeks in a wheel chair. Diagnoses: Straight [...]
Finn Westbury
Profile: Sponsored Snowboarder, Injury: Ruptured PCL Issue: Solid Objects I had numerous winters with 100 plus days on my snowboard without a second thought about what it meant to actually be in [...]
Mika Hemphill
Profile: Urgent care doc, obsessive climber Injury: Ego Issue: Smallness, lack of strength at end range As physicians... we learn the parts of a human body, but there’s a difference between understanding [...]
Reflections: Authenticity
Failure is a part of training. Failure is a part of training. Not flailing attempts at mediocrity, but legitimate work that pushes a person to the limits of their ability. Every skill based [...]
Reflections: Understanding Pain
The best athletes I have ever known adapt to injuries. They train other things. They work on weaknesses and try and figure out why they injured the tissue in the first place. Sure, they do daily work to speed the rate of recovery, but beyond that, they have grace.
Reflections: What is the point?
I have found myself stuck on a topic for over two weeks now, the end result being that while there have been some videos done and some writing compiled the site has remained untouched. [...]
Training: Horizontal Pulling
PLAY Which planes should you pull in? We neglect horizontal pulling. When new clients are introduced, when possible we start them with some [...]
Training: Zercher Deadlift
PLAY Prayers are all that get these up. So I am back on a hunt for a triple body weight dead lift. At [...]
Training: Hand Strength and Weighted Rope Climbs
Weighted Rope Climbs It seems a little over the top that I always talk about how much stuff hurts, and perhaps it is just that I am soft and weak... but climbing our [...]