Ben Bese runs a Bozeman gym that doesn’t behave like a gym. Ascend Movement Training blends powerlifting, mobility work and breathwork to help people get out of chronic pain and stay strong for life, and Ben is neither a personal trainer nor a physical therapist. He’s somewhere in the middle, and he explains exactly where that line is.
In this episode: why cold plunging right after a strength workout may undo the work you just did, why you absolutely can build muscle after 60, what a chiropractic adjustment does and doesn’t fix, and what Ben would tell the Silicon Valley guys injecting young blood to live forever. Plus, Joe asks whether his wife and co-host Michelle is slowly destroying her body by running every day, and then submits to a custom workout called “The Joe,” which goes about as well as you’d expect.
Ben grew up near Melbourne, played semi-pro Australian rules football, and founded Ascend with his wife in 2019 after watching too many athletes get stuck with shoulders and backs that never healed. Ascend is now in the Story Mill area of Bozeman at:
108 BRIDGER CENTER DRIVE BOZEMAN, MT 59715 SUITE C
Instagram: @ascend_movementtraining
Website: AscendMovementTraining.com
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