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It’s crazy how much can change in a year!

Last June when I called Z to learn more about the @samsaraexperience program I was struggling with a lot of pain. I wasn’t moving well and a number of injuries had left me feeling like a prisoner in my body. I couldn’t run, bike or engage in mountain activities the way I once did.

As someone who relies on their body for work as a professional skier that scared the shi*t out of me. I was unsure of my future as a mountain athlete and was desperate to find a way to feel good again.

Within 3 weeks of aligning with Samsara I started to feel like I was moving better. Functional movement strength workouts, mobility and lots of zone 1 cardio base time allowed me to slowly learn how to trust my body again. As the trust grew and we ramped up my training I started to feel strong. Within a couple of months I was running pain free and was starting to feel like an athlete again.

This winter I was blown away by the big days my body was able to handle and how good I felt on my skis.

Working with Samsara has allowed me to see what my body is capable of with the right support and I've got this feeling that we are just getting started :) by @samsaraexperience

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3 months ago

As I wrap up my time in Chile, I’ve been feeling so grateful for my body and the opportunities it gives me.

I train today so that in 20 years I can continue to explore the mountains under my own power with the people I care about.

Find your why, and then build the body that makes it all possible.

Gracias 🇨🇱
@patagoniachile by @samsaraexperience

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2 days ago

How to build strength that transfers to your sport.⁠
PATTERN - LOAD - ACCELERATE⁠
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Coach @mtniain running a morning strength & movement session at the City of Rocks a few weeks ago. In this warm up drill he is focusing on step 1: the 'pattern.'⁠
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Rather than building arbitrary "gym strength" develop strength that transfers to the ways you move as an athlete. The human body is purpose built for locomotion - the patterns of movement we use to cover ground.⁠
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At Samsara our strength training library reflects the movement patterns that our bodies are optimized for: crawling, walking, running and throwing.⁠
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What starts as mobility training, eventually gets loaded and becomes strength training. When loaded movement is done fast, it becomes power training - but the movement fundamentals stay the same.⁠
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Pattern, load, accelerate is a 3 step framework for improving your coordination, strength and speed while training at home.⁠
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Cultivate the roots of your athleticism. by @samsaraexperience

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4 days ago

Community has always been at the heart of what we are trying to build at Samsara. The annual Rendezvous has always been a big focus for us - bringing our athletes and coaches together to build real athlete community. This years fall Rendezvous was at the beautiful City of Rocks. Thank you to all who came, put up ropes, taught clinics and trained together, that was a really special time. by @samsaraexperience

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7 days ago

At our recent Athlete Rendezvous at the City of Rocks we hosted a running clinic where we broke down the three cues that we use to teach efficient running technique:⁠
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1. IMAGINE BEING PULLED BY A STRING ATTACHED TO YOUR BELLY BUTTON.⁠
This puts your hips slightly ahead of your feet. This posture is the fundamental difference between the inverted pendulum (walking posture) and the spring gait cycle (running posture). If you forget everything else about running - just do this and your running efficiency will improve.⁠
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2. GRIP THE GROUND WITH YOUR TOES.⁠
Running is highly elastic - meaning that a large percentage of the energy that goes into the ground, is recycled - IF you have strong feet. Weak feet leak energy, where stiff feet recycle it. We use the "grip the ground' cue in our Groundforce Foot training to build strength and cooprdination in the feet.⁠
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3. USE LINEAR ARM DRIVE.⁠
Try to avoid letting your arms cross the midline of your body when you run. Point the energy in a straight line, by keeping your hands pointing towards where you want to go. by @samsaraexperience

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Maximum strength training relies on intensity more than volume. If the reps are hard - you can't do many of them. A simple way to structure this set would be:⁠
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- A 3 second hold on the left arm⁠
- 3 seconds to switch⁠
- A 3 second hold on the right arm⁠
- REPEAT x 2-4 reps⁠
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If you feel your strength drop off, you did too many reps.⁠
You should be able to produce the same force on the first and last rep.⁠
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If that means you only get 2 reps in - that's fine. Build upto 3-4 reps, then increase the load, by sliding your hand down the resistance band.⁠
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Go get strong. by @samsaraexperience

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9 days ago

Deep reconnection with a place that shaped me as a person, and my connection to the mountains 27 years ago!

@bencarvallo you are a gem, impossible to reconnect with Chile in this way without you. Gracias compadre por compartir la vibra andina 🇨🇱

Todos juntos:
@danielgrange_
@rmanns
@fedoko.f
@alyosha_billimoria17

@patagoniachile 🙌🏽

Y que gran placer conocer a la vero! @veritocajondelmaipo 🙏🏽 by @samsaraexperience

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9 days ago

The faster you pull - the LESS force you produce. This is called the Force-Velocity relationship and it explains why alot of athletes never get a 1 arm lock off.⁠
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Here is the key 🔑⁠
Load Slooooowly...⁠
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Generally 3-5 seconds from when you grab the bar, till when your feet peel off the ground. You will surprise yourself and how much load you can bear when you load this way.⁠
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Over time you will make way bigger strength gains if you load slowly like @sashadingle ! by @samsaraexperience

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11 days ago

The 1 Arm Lock Off is a very useful position to build strength in. ⁠

But its about more than strength. Its also about coordination, and learning how to distribute forces and accomodate the load throughout your body. ⁠
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Ever seen a super-strong but not very coordinated athlete try this? They hold tension from their jaw to their toes. As you progress you learn where you actually need tension, and where you can let it go. ⁠
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Training this move provided big breakthroughs in my climbing.⁠
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Developing the skill and strength for this move is an excellent goal for a climber, but also for any well rounded athlete.

@sashadingle on the bar! by @samsaraexperience

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14 days ago

The work we have been putting into leveling up our own education this summer has been incredible. A big shoutout to our head coach @mtniain who developed a curriculum that kept us all on track as we waded through research, books and podcasts with experts in the field of tendon physiology, endurance performance and strength science - to continually evolve our craft.⁠
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It all culminated last week when the whole coaching staff gathered in Jackson for a 2 day dawn-till-dusk in-person session where we put the capstone on a summer of study.⁠
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Coaching is a bit of a "Wild West" field where almost anyone can take an online course and earn the title of "coach." It is really upto the consumer to seperate influencers, from experts. ⁠
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That's why we have always taken our education into our own hands. Our coaches all spent 2+ seasons learning on the Athlete Team, took the 16 week/80 hour Foundations of Athleticism course, followed by a 2 day in-person intensive, and then spent over 50 hours studying physiology to have the honor of guiding our athletes. ⁠
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The library of research that we have built along the way is the foundation for our method and the results we deliver.⁠
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Proud of the team of coaches we have:⁠
@sashadingle⁠
@mtniain⁠
@natureoverted⁠
@zahanbillimoria⁠
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We will be hosting Foundations of Athleticism in 2027, and hiring some new coaches, stay tuned. by @samsaraexperience

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15 days ago

BACKCOUNTRY SEMESTER LAST CALL!

Here is everything you don’t want to miss that we’ll be covering in the next 11 weeks!

Class starts tomorrow at 5:30 pm MST Live on Zoom.

- 1 week to take the deep dive into each topic
- Instructor-led presentation followed by Q&A.
- Engaging follow-up work and discussion in the chat
- Direct access to the coaches to deepen your understanding

Join us at the link in bio by @samsaraexperience

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17 days ago

Proximal to distal sequencing is a well established concept in biomechanics. Its explains how we move in sport, and the thread that seems to connect human movement in most sporting movements.⁠
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But in traditional weightlifting, the body moves as a single unit, all joints moving simultaneously. In sport we sequence our joints in a specific order: proximal (center of the body) to distal (limbs).⁠
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If we want our strength training to transfer to our sport - we need our strength training to reflect the natural patterns that we move in: proximal to distal.⁠
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Do you notice this pattern? by @samsaraexperience

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