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.
June 30, 2009

The Portland Zoo

A super fun day. Woke up early here in Portland at my parents’ condo. Decent, but not great sleep (trains kept me up from 1:30 to 3:30 am). Had a 2 block bfast and then rode my Dad’s bike over to CrossFit Portland to join in their 6:30 am group session.
CrossFit Portland
The [...]

June 28, 2009

Packing Up. PUC New Rules.

It was a day of packing and getting ready for a travel day.
So, a “rest day.” I also even got a nap. I fed myself well. I did a couple of pull-ups, for fun.
I had good numbers on my weekly weigh-in (181.0 lbs, 13% body fat), even if my weekly [...]

June 27, 2009

“Anna.” PUC Day 34.

I binged hard on food last night, ending up the day with nearly 3700 calories! In retrospect, this eating behavior was totally unconscious, even though I recall “deciding” to eat more, and then more, and then some more. Such behaviors could prove dangerous to my well being (i.e body fat percentage, weight, waistline, [...]

June 26, 2009

“No Limits”

Played poker last night with my whiskey-swilling, cigarette-smoking, pizza-scarfing comrades in vice, and I managed to escape with minimal damage (certainly no cigarettes, only two shots of whiskey, and only one slice of Papa John’s Meat Lover’s Pizza — call it a mini-cheat; it did not appreciably throw off the day’s totals). Went to [...]

June 25, 2009

Anticipation and Retrospection

Years ago, when running and Globo-gym style weightlifting were my fitness mainstays, I used to tell my running partner Alex that all our hard work wasn’t for this week, but for next week, and the week after that. You don’t go out for your Thursday morning run hoping that all your stubborn belly flab [...]

June 24, 2009

"Alex"

About 6 hours sleep. 1 block breakfast. 6:00 am CFA workout.
Warm Up
Agility drills; shoulder dislocates; Sampsons; hip-mobility; calf and hamstring stretching; push-ups (15); squats (15); knees-to-elbows (15); pull-ups (medium band assisted, 15).
WOD: Alex
The CFA WOD is “Alex”, in honor of one of our members who is leaving, after today, for the Marines.
3 rounds [...]

June 23, 2009

"The Flash"

Slept in a bit, cause I could… Lena didn’t wake until after 7:00. Even with her two wakings between 12 and 1 I managed to get at least 6 hours of sleep. Cleaning around the house, breakfast was lots of coffee and “1.5″ block of food (but actually 1.5p/5f/1.5c). Note to self: [...]

June 22, 2009

"Mini Fran." PUC Postponed.

Lousy sleep, only from 1:00 am to 6:30 am. I went to bed before 11:00 pm, but couldn’t fall asleep. Thinking about so many things. But I felt ok in the morning and I jetted off to the 7:00 am workout at CFA. No coffee. No breakfast. Only about [...]

June 21, 2009

Day of Fathers

Today Yael let me sleep in (I slept until almost 8:00 am!). Then she brought me coffee and the Sunday NYT in bed. According to me, this is the holy trinity.
Later, brunch at Jesse and V’s with their baby Annalise. Beautiful. We all went on a walk, and I had a [...]

June 20, 2009

Yoga to the Rescue. Swimming at the YMCA.

Crossfit is great. I love it, and, barring actual physical disability, at this point in my life I plan always to do it, or apply its principles to what I do.
Did you sense the “however” approaching? Yes, it’s here. “However,” I see this morning that there are times when CrossFit will not [...]

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