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Most programs start with a template. Ours starts with you.

Every American Ascension program is built from a detailed assessment of how you move. We coach it in person, and we change it as you change.

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Sports performance and health coaching Charlotte, NC We come to you

01The difference

100%

of our programs start with an individual movement assessment

The assessment is the program.

Most training programs are written once and handed to everyone. The workouts stay the same whatever your body, your history or your goals. That leaves gaps: injuries nobody addresses, plateaus that never break, and plans that were never built for the person doing them.

We start with you. Before we write a single session, we look at how you move, what you do well, where you are limited, and which imbalances are holding you back. The program is built from what we find.

The usual approach

Template programming

  • The same block of work for every athlete
  • Imbalances never found, so never fixed
  • Plateaus answered with more volume
  • A fixed plan that does not change as you do

American Ascension

Assessment-first coaching

  • A detailed movement assessment before anything is written
  • Programming built around your patterns and limitations
  • Evidence-based methods, coached in person
  • Reassessed and adjusted as your body changes

02What we do

Two tracks, one method.

Some clients are chasing a personal record. Others want to move without pain again. Both start the same way: we assess first, then build around what we find.

01

Sports Performance

For competitive athletes at every level, from high school and college to sub-elite, elite and full teams. Get faster and stronger, stay healthy through a season, or come back from injury ready to compete.

  • Strength & conditioning
  • Speed & agility
  • Injury prevention
  • Return-to-play support
  • Mobility restoration
  • Movement assessment
 02

Health & Exercise

For people who take their health seriously. Manage pain from an old injury, get past a plateau, or build habits you can keep for decades.

  • Strength for everyday health
  • Rehabilitation programming
  • Mobility for daily function
  • Muscle gain & maintenance
  • Pain & imbalance assessment
 03

Teams & Clubs

Season-long support for programs and clubs. Every athlete on the roster gets an individual assessment, so nobody trains on a plan written for someone else.

  • Team assessments
  • In-season & off-season blocks
  • Injury-risk screening
  • On-site at your facility
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03How it works

Four steps, and the first one is not training.

01

Assess

A detailed movement assessment, and a conversation about your history, your sport and your goal. This is where we find the imbalances and limitations a template never looks for.

02

Build

We write your program from what the assessment found. It is evidence-based and specific to the way your body moves, not adapted from someone else’s plan.

03

Coach

We coach the work in person. Technique gets corrected as it happens, and the standard does not slip because nobody was watching.

04

Reassess & adjust

Bodies change over a season. We reassess and adjust the program with you, so you never train on a plan written for the athlete you were twelve weeks ago.

04Who coaches you

Two coaches who have been through it themselves.

Alec and Dan came up through the same competitive world they now coach in. Both hit the ceiling of generic programming in their own careers, and both know what changed once their training was built around them.

6degrees and certifications between our two coaches 2master’s degrees 5×NAIA national qualifier in cross country and track
Alec Scheerer, founder of American Ascension

Alec Scheerer

Founder & CEO · Director of Sports Performance

BS Exercise Science, Catawba College. MS Sports and Health Sciences, American Public University. VO2 certified. Alec still races as a sub-elite cross country and track distance runner for Railroad Athletics, with a 4:23 mile and a 15:25 5000m.

He coaches with non-traditional training that makes the body move in complex patterns most programs never ask for. After four years of burnout in his own running, he changed coaches, overhauled his training and rebuilt his career.

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Dan Odell, co-founder of American Ascension

Dan Odell

Co-Founder · Sports Performance Coach · Health & Exercise Coach

BS Exercise Science, Montreat College. MA Communications, Queens University of Charlotte. ISSA certified. A five-time NAIA national qualifier in cross country and track, and a member of the 2023 and 2024 Queens Triathlon National Championship teams.

Dan specializes in injury prevention and rehabilitation programming. He finds the imbalances that hold performance back, and restores the movement people need for everyday life.

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05Rates

Pay by the session. No contract.

One price list for athletes, teams and health clients. Pick a format and tell us which days suit you, and we will set up your first session.

1-on-1 training

You and one coach.

$90Per person, per session

2-on-1 training

Two people, one coach. $150 a session between you.

$75Per person, per session

3-on-1 training

Three people, one coach. $180 a session between you.

$60Per person, per session

Large groups & teams

One flat rate for the whole team, not per person.

$100Flat rate, per team, per session
  • Every session is 60 minutes
  • No contracts and no long-term commitments
  • Choose how many sessions a month suit your schedule and budget
  • Cancel or adjust anytime
  • We come to you. Travel is $0.25 a mile on every session
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06Teams & clubs

We coach whole teams, one athlete at a time.

Team training usually means one plan for thirty different bodies. We assess each athlete on the roster and build from there. The athlete coming back from injury and the athlete chasing a conference title each get the work they need.

Talk about your program

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Ready to train on a program built for you?

Tell us about your sport, your history and what you are working toward. We will reply with how we would approach it and what your assessment would look at.

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