Mission: Ascend

We seek to understand your story, your motivations, and your style of learning to create meaningful coaching experiences helping you Ascend to your best self.

Sustainable health behaviors come from working fitness into your life and not the other way around. Our trainers will curate pertinent strategies, allowing you to navigate your health with less confusion and clutter.

Training Philosophy

Exercise is more than a good sweat

As we become inundated with health and wellness information, it becomes ever so challenging to know where to start. We tend to throw everything at the wall until it sticks, hop from one diet to the next, or fall into ruts by doing the same thing every day. As I have grown in my 10 years of coaching, I've come to understand the paradigm of "everything matters, yet nothing matters." My goal is to help my clients understand what they truly want out of their health.

Having worked with hundreds of clients, I have seen the pattern of peoples' goal not actually being their own. Maybe it's what they see on social media, or the headline of the tabloid magazine in the checkout line. Maybe they feel the need to prove something to someone. The abundance of information has made it hard to curate what an individual truly needs.

Even to this day I continue to battle this issue, even as a fitness professional. Earning an Exercise Science Degree from Oregon State University, holding the "Gold Standard" of Strength and Conditioning certifications, taking continuing education course after course; all of this can lead to paralysis by analysis. With so much information, you think the answer would be clear.

You may have heard that the best training program is the one you will adhere to, and I believe this to be the driving force behind my practice. If 2020 didn't prove to us that life changes in ways we can't predict, there is bound to be something that throws us off our routine. It is during these times that our understanding and relationship with our health keeps us resilient and adaptable. My role is to foster a cognizant, but not obsessive relationship with fitness. A relationship that will serve you as long as you continue to invest in it.

It's not about being on or off the wagon, it's about fine-tuning it to enjoy the ride.

Meet Your Trainer

Hayden Olson

Owner,

Hayden is a professional at play. Considering himself a jack of all trades, but a master of none, Hayden remains a student of movement. With 8 years of coaching experience, Hayden specializes in practical approaches to fitness. "Respect the research, but understand which rocks to move first." His “big picture” approach has led his clients to great adherence and resilient bodies without the burnout found in many other programs.

You’ll find Hayden hiking in the summer and snowboarding in the winter, and, when he’s kicking his feet up, playing video games or watching superhero and Star Wars movies.

Education:

Bachelors of Science in Exercise and Sport Science | Oregon State University,
National Strength and Conditioning Association | Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist,
Certified Functional Strength Coach,
The American Council on Exercise | Certified Personal Trainer,
Functional Range Systems | Functional Range Conditioning Specialist