Getting in the first day of the season
So the summer snow hunt continues with the claim for the first riding day of the season on September 8th. Russel and I headed out to Mt. Hector to see if we could find any…
Writing topics: <span>Training & the Body</span>
Authenticity
Full Ascension edition, published 2019-02-17. The earlier recovered version is preserved below.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…
Fixing the Muscle-Up: Wrist Strength and Stronger Triceps
Full Ascension edition, published 2015-04-07. The earlier recovered version is preserved below.A muscle-up is a transition.Somehow a muscle-up went from being the way a gymnast got on top of the rings, to becoming an exercise…
The Edge of Existence
Disclaimer: I don’t want a debate on safety. If you don’t like reading about people pushing their limits, or if you want to have an argument about doing things that are safe, that is fine;…
Sleep, Recovery, and Exceptional Performance
So our science around the miserable things that happen to our bodies without enough sleep is pretty good. I will proceed as I often do by not actually providing any real references to the material…
(p)Rehab: The Issue of Thumbs
I started working with a client a couple of months ago who had (what seems to be more and more common) extremely limiting hand pain. The initial success in dealing with pain that had…
One Arm Pull-up: Pre-reqs
I wrote an article on one arm pull-ups a few months ago where I mentioned I might write and film some more stuff on perfecting the one arm pull-up. However as the snow has…
Some Older Backcountry Training Regimes
So another good day in the back country had me thinking that it was time to start putting up some more workouts for those out there who are in for long slogs at altitude. We…
Mixed Training: Pressing out of a lock off
It galls me that #machavok actually beat me to this one; I had experimented last season with a number of exercise variations that would help work on pressing up and above tools, but never came…
Training: Perfecting the muscle-up
Somehow in the past few years the muscle up has gained some renown as an exercise, as opposed to just a way to get up onto the rings and then do something useful. Sadly as…