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Ryan Maier Training Success Story and Distance Coaching

About 2 years ago, I wrote a post about my style of personal training. I didn’t dictate my clients had to do anything. I didn’t just mindlessly put them through grueling workouts, forcing them to lose weight. I didn’t keep them in the dark and allow them to think that training and nutrition is some kind of “magical, mystifying, secretive”
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Don’t Be A One-Trick Pony

Let me know if you’ve heard any of these before: Bouldering is the purest form of climbing. There are no bolts, no cams, no ropes, no nothing. Just you and the rock. If you fall, you fall to the earth. Sport climbing is the purest form of climbing. It’s like bouldering but sustained. It’s an elegant dance on the face
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Arc'Teryx Zenta AR Gloves

Arc’Teryx Ascent Product Line: An Impenetrable Fortress against the Elements – Part III

Editor’s Note: This was going to be one, all-encompassing post of the entire line, but after I got done writing Part I about the Alpha SV and Atom SV and Part II about the Beta AR pants and Stryka hoody, I was already over 1,000 words each. If you’ve not yet had an Arc’Teryx imposed lobotomy, you’re almost there. This is the last post of
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Beta AR and Stryka

Arc’Teryx Ascent Product Line: An Impenetrable Fortress against the Elements – Part II

Editor’s Note: This was going to be one, all-encompassing post of the entire line, but after I got done writing Part I about the Alpha SV and Atom SV, I was already over 900 words. So, I will be spreading this out over as many posts as needed so as not to give you an Arc’Teryx imposed lobotomy. You’re welcome. ********** As
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Arc'Teryx, Smith Optics, and Airhole Facemask

Arc’Teryx Ascent Product Line: An Impenetrable Fortress against the Elements – Part I

Editor’s Note: This was going to be one, all-encompassing post of the entire line, but after I got done writing just about the Alpha SV and Atom SV, I was already over 900 words. So, I will be spreading this out over as many posts as needed so as not to give you an Arc’Teryx imposed lobotomy. You’re welcome. **********
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