ABOUT

ASCEND (All Strength Comes Earned Not Deserved) seeks to reinforce that everything good is born of blood and sweat, and that the more spilled, the greater the goodness yielded. Its doctrine is that nothing is free, and that if it is, you don’t want it.

My name is Patrick Spencer and I’m the owner of ASCEND and the Trulyspartan brand. For years, the latter has been my social media home, and a face that took its name from a lifelong study of the ancient Spartans and their bellicose doctrine. But separating it from a real-life business that has a pragmatic impact was always challenging, so as I arrived on the scene of personal training and died the ego death of the Spartan within, ASCEND took stage as the weapon I’d refused to utilize. That Spartan, however, while maybe not me, is a part of me I can’t untwine, and the core tenets of those ancient warriors will always be with me in everything I teach. I couldn’t be here without them, and all the lessons they taught me, so I saw fit to combine the two facets of this whole thing into one.

ASCEND by Trulyspartan harnesses a scientific and experiential approach to promote high-level fitness, athleticism and all around mental and physical health. The human body is the vessel we all live in, and even the elusive “mind” is a component within that vessel. You are your body, and your body is you, and while I’m the first to explore the philosophical and existential, it’s not my opinion that the more enhanced your physicality, the higher your quality of life. That’s just science.

I’ve been personal training for six years officially and have now added a supplement line to help you ASCEND those levels of body and mind so that you can perform and feel your best. One of those above-mentioned existential ideas I will share with you is that we are in all our mortality meant to ASCEND a little closer to god, whatever god is, in this life. And even if you don’t want to see in the divine light, then at the least we are somehow obliged not to waste this one impossible life and to squeeze every ounce of potential from it. But any of us is only doing so if we’re primed and ready. So get your mind right. Get your body right. Train hard. Live well. ASCEND.