Ascend Performance

Most people aren’t getting results in the gym because nobody ever showed them the basics properly; and the Romanian Deadlift is a perfect example.

It’s one of the best exercises for building strong hamstrings and posterior chain. But if you’ve ever finished a set and felt it mostly in your lower back or quads, the movement isn’t doing its job.

Two reasons this usually happens:

Rounding through the back pulls load away from your legs and dumps it straight onto your spine. Feels like hard work, delivers the wrong results.

Bending the knees too much turns a hinge into a squat and you’ve lost the tension through the hamstrings entirely. Same exercise, different stimulus.

This is exactly why coaching matters. Small technical cues, applied at the right moment, completely change what an exercise does for your body.

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“My knees are a lot stronger. I don’t suffer from injuries like I used to.”

Robbie’s been training at Ascend for two years. Before that he did no strength work and no structured training.
Just running, and the kind of niggling injuries that come with it.

He’s not alone in that. A lot of runners avoid the gym. It feels like a different world, built for different people with different goals.

But the thing that keeps getting people injured isn’t the miles, it’s everything they’re NOT doing around them.

Two years on, Robbie’s stronger all round, running better, and barely recognises the version of himself that used to just push through pain and hope for the best.

He also fits it around a demanding job in one of Brighton’s bigger corporates because the schedule works around him, not the other way around.

If you run, lift nothing, and keep wondering why your body keeps breaking down, this one’s for you.

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“I’ve never been a 6am person. Now I want to get up.”

Karishma is 48.
She had a hip replacement in her 20s, never got the right help to rehab it, and has spent years working around pain that nobody properly addressed.

She’d also never really been a gym person.
Not because she didn’t want to be, but because she never knew where to start or felt like it was a space built for her.

That changed in January.
Now she’s training on a programme designed around her body, her history, and what she actually needs.
The weaker leg. The hip. All of it.
Finally being worked on properly.

And somewhere along the way, the early alarms stopped feeling like a punishment.

If you’ve been putting it off because you don’t know where to start, or the gym has never felt like your kind of place, Karishma was right there too.
Along with so many more of our members.