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Weightlifting, nutrition, paleolithic and "Zone" dieting, weight loss, my workouts, and reflections and reviews of various related topics that interest me. But mostly, I just use this blog to track my workouts.

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

About Me

I'm a level I "sports performance certified" USAW coach, and I train, and work as an assistant coach at Asheville Strength and Conditioning, a great little gym here in Asheville, N.C.

I work with clients who want to get strong and fit, and specialize in helping older, detrained individuals reclaim their fitness and youthful athleticism.

Also, it should be said that I used to train with, and still love many of the folks down at CrossFit Asheville. A lot of the older portions of this blog deals with CrossFit and reflects my earlier fascination with CrossFit's "fitness as sport" model of training. I've learned a lot from CrossFit since I first discovered it, back in late 2008, even though my own training is now more focused on developing pure strength and capacity in the basic strength lifts.

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CrossFit Asheville WODS \• 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.”

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• 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.

Workouts \• 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 fastest time that day. And [...]

Workouts \• April 24, 2009

Box Jump

That’s about 37.5″ as I recall.

Workouts \• 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 [...]

Workouts \• 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 from [...]

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