endurance – Ascension https://www.ascensioncalgary.com Strength and rehab training in Calgary. Mon, 09 Jan 2023 02:11:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 62793933 Noel Bolso https://www.ascensioncalgary.com/noel-bolso/ Thu, 14 Feb 2019 19:16:44 +0000 https://www.ascensioncalgary.com/?p=1634

Profile: Ex moto, rides bikes, goes fast

Injury: Ankle, shoulder position

Issue: Too fast.

I came to Ian looking to improve my functional movements.  After a short time I began seeing improvements not only in posture and movement but also in my sports.

My body shows many tales from years of motocross and mountain biking. Along with some that I’ve sustained in sport recently. Ian has been a great help in rehabbing old injuries and expediting recovery when I dislocated and fractured my ankle this summer.

Issues which have in the past reared their head during multi day events/races, effecting my performance have parted ways as well.
On top of all that. Ascension is a pretty inspiring environment to be part of. I’m pretty sure every person there has a wallet that says Bad Ass Motherf#cker on it… (If I can reference Pulp Fiction).. ‘grin’

Noel Bolso, Bad Ass.

]]> 1634 Some Older Backcountry Training Regimes https://www.ascensioncalgary.com/some-older-backcountry-training-regimes/ Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:41:37 +0000 http://www.ascensioncalgary.com/?p=312 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 need the lungs, the legs, and the calf strength for everything from post holing waist deep, through skinning in 100cm + of pow on 50 degree slopes, and of course the occasional bit of technical climbing in soft boots on steep glacier faces.

Now there are always a host of tooling exercises to work on for people, but today’s stuff is more of a Mark Twight style suffer fest offering. Of the workouts, one was developed with Bobbity so that he could feed the need to suffer while injured this spring. The second option is a bit of an edit on the same theme. In both cases rowing could be switched out for something else… though my preference is rowing. No joint impact and a phenomenal workout which feels about as close to death as you can get. Actually makes skinning in deep snow seem pretty easy.

Workout 1: Bobbity

300m row in one minute
Rest one minute

Repeat for ten rounds.
When you fail rest a minute then pull a casual ten minutes of rowing.

Workout 2: Advanced Suffering

300m row in one minute
Rest 30s
20 calf raises with barbell (I used 225lbs for this.)
Rest 30s

Repeat until unable to continue.

Have fun with these ones. Something to wake you up at 4:45am, and get the body working. Almost as good as a fight with a badger.

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