About Training Board

My name is Matt Baldwin and in this blog I record my fitness and workout routines, and I discuss diet and weight loss techniques. I also publish reflections or reviews of various fitness and nutrition related topics that interest me.

I am into CrossFit and I work out with the crew at CrossFit Asheville here in Asheville, NC.

If anything I have posted seems useful to you, let me know with a comment.
April 30, 2009

Shoulder Press (4/29/09)

10 x bar weight (45#)
10 x 45#
6 x 75#
1 x 95#
1 x 105#
1 x 115#
1 x 120#
1 x 125# (fail)
This workout was followed by “Matt B.”

April 30, 2009

"Matt B" aka "Super Man"

This was the WOD. Randy named it for me. Thanks Randy! That is, if a gift like this deserves “thanks.”
AMRAP, 10 minutes: 200 meter run; 20 Knees to Elbows.
My results:
3 full rounds
1 more run, and
12 K2E
This workout actually followed a strength session: max wt. single rep Shoulder Presses.

April 26, 2009

Mineral City 5k, April 25th 2009

I ran the Mineral City 5k yesterday afternoon (website). I did reasonably well! My time was 25:17, and more importantly, I came in FIRST in my age group (40-44). Yes, that’s right. I won! Of course, it’s a small race, and my time was like, 7 minutes slower than the [...]

April 24, 2009

Box Jump

That’s about 37.5″ as I recall.

April 23, 2009

"Angie"

I did “Angie” on Tuesday morning this week.
“Angie” is the first and most basic of the original “benchmark” workouts (aka “The Girls”) used in CrossFit (see CrossFit Journal Sep. 2003).
“Angie” is composed entirely of callisthenic exercises. It consists of one round of
100 pull ups, followed by
100 sit ups, followed by
100 push ups, followed by
100 [...]

April 2, 2009

Wish List Item: Concept II Ergometer

I spent my freshman year of college (1987–1988) rowing on the frosh lightweight crew squad at Columbia University. I rowed port side, for most of the season in seat seven, and sometimes in seat five, while Ted Schweitzer led the boat as starboard (or “bowside”) eighth seat oarsman (“the stroke”) — this is opposite [...]

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