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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 \• December 29, 2010

10k Walk/Sprint and a Long Paddle to Little Mac’s

10k Sprint Workout View Larger Map Wednesday morning early I went out for a 10k distance walk/sprint session with my brother-in-law John Chun. It was good. John’s a natural athlete and had very little trouble keeping up with me. I had my VFFs on and that felt pretty good except, toward the end I developed [...]

Active Rest \• December 28, 2010

More SUP Surfing

Tuesday morning came, and with it a long morning drive to Kahului and a visit to Hawaiian Island Surf and Sport; that got me back in the game for Stand Up Paddle surfing. The guys at the shop had a good humor about my wreck, considering it was a truly nasty ding. Karl, who was [...]

Active Rest \• December 27, 2010

Stand Up Paddle!

Trying something new: this morning I got up on a stand up paddle surfboard, and went out into the rolling swell in Napili Bay (here on Maui). This was my first time on a SUP surfboard. Man it is not easy. I didn’t catch any swells, but I did come close once or twice. It’s [...]

Outdoor Recreation \• December 25, 2010

Industrial Pearl 10k (walk in NW Portland)

This morning, bright and early at 5:19 am, I set out to walk a 10k route in Northwest Portland. This was the first step in my new plan to train for races at the 10k distance. My goal is to complete a 10k distance race at sub 7:30 pace before May 1st. Result: 6.3 miles. [...]

Strength Day \• December 24, 2010

more fun at the MAC

I spent another morning with my dad at the Multnomah Athletic Club today. While I was warming up, I discovered, to my joy/embarrassment, that they do indeed have squat racks. They are tucked away in another corner of the huge fitness center room. I was super pleased and immediately changed my plans from working on [...]

Strength Day \• December 22, 2010

shoulders snatch etc.

Boy I am on vacation. Am I ever. I feel like whining and complaining about my inability to keep a clean diet or to keep with my normal eating and drinking and sleeping and workout habits and patterns. But I wont. See the post before last for some indication as to why. Anyway, I have [...]

Strength Day \• December 20, 2010

back at the mac

My old-time “home gym” is the Multnomah Athletic Club in Portland Oregon, which is a really great facility, when compared to your typical “health club” type space. By “really great” I just mean they have rowing ergometers, a pull-up bar, an Olympic lifting platform, kilogram bumper plates, etc. They also have all of the typical [...]

Reflections \• December 20, 2010

the interstices

I was so sore from Friday’s sandbagging workout! What an awesome WOD. I really liked it. I feel good now. Over the next three weeks I’m going to miss WODs like that, and the variable semi-randomness of Shanna’s programming. It’s time for a rest from training. We hear and talk all the time about periodizing [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• December 17, 2010

sandbagging

Quick note about Friday’s WOD. I went to the 9:00 am class at the gym for one last workout with my peeps before the start of Christmas break. I knew it would be about 26 days before I make it back to CrossFit Asheville (I’ll be back for the 6:00 am class on January 12th, [...]

Strength Day \• December 15, 2010

Open Gym

Nearing the end of an 18 hour fast, I hit the CFA open gym time on Wednesday. Forget about adequate sleep, etc. This is finals. But training goes on. Warm-Up 500 meter row (17-19 strokes/min; 1:48-1:52 split). Bear Crawl / Crab Walk / Floor Work 5 rounds: 1 min max Double Unders, 30s rest Dislocates [...]

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