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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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Strength Day \• May 30, 2011

weak monday front squats and clean and jerk

Monday AM I hit the 6:00 am Open Gym time at CFA, an option for memorial day. I did Front Squats and worked on my clean and jerk. Nothing special. Not a lot of volume. Not a lot accomplished. It didn’t feel like a very good day. I was slow. I was still sore as [...]

Outdoor Recreation \• May 28, 2011

saturday sprints

Met up with Brian at UNCA track at 7:15 on Saturday morning for some brutal sprint training. 10 x 40 meter sprints, carrying a 50 lb sandbag, then 3 x 100 meter sprints, without. Fun, tiring. Exhausting, actually. 100 meter sprint results: 16.26, 16.52, 16.16.

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• May 27, 2011

fantastic active friday

6:00 am workout at CrossFit Asheville. More than three hours of hardcore lumberjacking. Then squats, with a new 1 RM PR (235) at Brian’s house. What a day!

Health Reports \• May 24, 2011

fried and floating

True confession. Since the school year ended, instead of finding a place beyond the stress of work, instead of finding a place where recovery can be smoother, instead of finding a new space for focus and determination in my program, I’ve been floating, drifting, really directionless. I’ve been staying up nights (working on websites for [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• May 23, 2011

monday: hang power cleans and much more

Monday, what a full day. AM at CFA At 6:00 am I went to the CFA workout. Which was as follows: A. Hang power snatch 8 sets of 2-4 reps w/2 minutes rest b/w sets for emphasis on mobility B. Complete 4 rounds of B1/B2: B1. Barbell Reverse lunge @ 20×1; 6-8/leg No rest b/w [...]

Active Rest \• May 20, 2011

mon wed thu fri this week

Monday hit CFA 6:00 am warm up included shoulder work then did the WOD. Best OHS # was 12 x 95. Will look up the rest. Afternoon included multiple rounds of jump rope and wood chopping and splitting with axe, 10 lb sledge and 5 lb wedge. Also: pull ups dead hang weighted 1 x [...]

Reading List \• May 15, 2011

slosh pipes and programming for olympic lifting crossfitters

More stuff I’ve been reading on, for your edification. This week: Dan John on the slosh pipe and Nick Horton’s take on reconciling Olympic Lifting training with CrossFit. Training Gear: Slosh Pipe Dan John with another winning article at T-Nation: “The Sloshing Pillar of Pain.” I have got to get one of these in my [...]

Outdoor Recreation \• May 14, 2011

saturday snatches again

Actually Saturday was a great day, full of activity. Fun. Here’s a summary of it. Woke up, worked on shoulder and forearm mobility. Boxing/Karate shadow boxing. Hamstring flexibility. Shoulder work with 5 & 10 lb plates: high-pulls, rotations, presses, T3s, all x12-20. Push-Ups (10). Then: working out with my Jump Rope in the back yard, [...]

Strength Day \• May 13, 2011

friday folderol

Stayed up so late, being bad, on Thursday, that I missed my customary 6:00 am CFA workout. Instead I did several short workouts over the course of the day. Am warm-up: one mile run 80% RPE Hamstring flexibility/mobility Shoulder rotates Shadow boxing Later at the YMCA: 500 meter row (8 resistance, 26 spm, 1:56 time) [...]

Strength Day \• May 11, 2011

on my programming

Wednesday AM I did an OPT assessment session with coach Corey. It was interesting, and I learned a few things about myself. Although the training stimulus was real enough (involving deadlifts, back squats, and bench presses, plus a number of auxiliary lifts) I won’t record all my numbers here (I have them in a Google [...]

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