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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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Active Rest \• May 10, 2011

tuesday active rest

AM early: mobility work! on shoulder and forearms; shadow karate/boxing punches. Afternoon: 10 minutes of playing around with jumprope; pushups (10); weighted +5 pull ups (2); weighted +5 ring dip (1). Later: Watched two mobility WOD videos. Evening: hamstring stretches; foam rolling; wooden ball rolling on shoulder and arms; ring dips (2); squat mobility. Purpose [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• May 9, 2011

this is summer

Today CFA announced it’s presenting only “off season” workouts for the next 3-6 weeks, which isn’t going to work well with my “plan apotheosis.” For me, this is the start of summer, and training wise, summer isn’t my off season. Summer, which offers me much greater opportunities for recovery and self-care, is about getting stronger [...]

Health Reports \• May 8, 2011

weigh in and metrics

Obviously, I’ve been getting into trouble with my diet here. Besides increasing about 20 lbs over the past 18 months, in the last month alone I’ve added eight pounds which, the calipers tell me, is mostly fat (and my pants tell me it’s mostly at the midsection). In the same period I’ve made few measurable [...]

Rest Days \• May 8, 2011

summer is here (plan apotheosis)

The life of an academic has some real perks, the most obvious of which is the summer break from full time teaching duties. For me, Summer 2011 began yesterday. I guess I celebrated with heavy cleans and some sandbag sprints. Now, on this first rest day of summer, I’m cooking up some plans to revitalize [...]

Reading List \• May 8, 2011

this week’s reading list

This is the first in a new series here at Training Board: Reading List. I’m constantly reading and re-reading things related to my training, picking up this or that random piece of information and locking it away somewhere in my brain. If I ever get around to it, some of that information gets passed on [...]

Strength Day \• May 7, 2011

saturday clean PR and sandbag runs

Saturday morning I felt like I’d been thrown under a train the day before. Without a doubt that was the greatest volume I’ve ever done in HPC. Sore arms, lats, the whole deal. Some basic mobility work helped me out some, but I was pretty crippled. Saturday afternoon I went over to Brian’s and we [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• May 6, 2011

friday hang power clean crazy

Friday morning Hang Power Clean 3 rep PR tie (at 145 lbs) and a huge workout of 5 rounds of 3 minute AMRAP 5 Hang Power Cleans (at 115 lbs) and 30 Single Unders (or 10 double unders, I did singles) w/ 3 minute rest and mobility work between rounds. I also hit a new [...]

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