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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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Outdoor Recreation \• April 12, 2010

Sunday Stroll (Cto5k II:1)

Quick training note: Yael, Lena, Puff-baby and I did the Couch to 5k week II workout 1 on Sunday afternoon. Beautiful, gorgeous weather. 5 minute warm up walk, then 6 rounds of: 90 seconds running, 2 minutes walking — in other words, we had 19 minutes total from the first to the sixth running intervals, [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• April 10, 2010

All in Good Time

The CrossFit Asheville workout today was Turkish Get-Ups and “A Moment In Time,” a WOD we last completed on Sep. 14th, 2009. I did a different sprint distance, and used a lighter weight. But I still feel I crushed my previous effort. The way I did this workout left me feeling spent all day. It [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• April 9, 2010

The Whip / Cto5k I:3

Friday was a gorgeous day, and a pretty great workout day too. The day started early, with my usual 4:30 in the morning wake up, and 5:00 am CFA class, where we did deadlifts and a WOD called “the whip;” training continued in the afternoon, Yael and I continued our slow but steady couch to [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• April 7, 2010

Lil’ Dutch Boy / What I Know

You can bless him or curse him, but celebrity CrossFit programming guru Dutch Lowy can certainly craft a powerfully painful WOD. Today at CrossFit Asheville: 10 minute AMRAP 12 burpees and 8 back squats, Rx’d at body-weight (I did about 5 lbs less than 50% of my body weight). For those of us going below [...]

Workouts \• April 6, 2010

C-2-5k I:2 — Hot Snap

My wife Yael and I finally completed the second workout of the first week in the coolrunning Couch to 5k plan, a mere ten days after our first outing! What happened? We ran on a Saturday (March 27th), and by Tuesday, Yael was stricken with strep throat. By Friday morning, I was beat down with [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• April 2, 2010

Full Throttle

Training Cycle: New Program Week 1/6 No Alcohol Month 4/5 Diet: Flexible-Paleo-Zone WOD #4 of the Week Five o’clock am, I love you. Ok maybe not, but I do love my CrossFit Asheville 5 am peeps. WOD, PART I: 100 burpees for time Result: 10:40. WOD, PART II: 3200 relay sprint w/ 25 lb sandbag [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• April 1, 2010

Half Again

Third WOD of the training week, my first week back; I’m still in recuperation mode from my surgery. This was a fun workout involving, for me, a half-serving of 10 rounds of power cleans (going light), push-ups and squats.

hi mom!