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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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Health Reports \• June 22, 2011

food journal 001

Deliberately low calorie day to begin my 120 day warpath. Morning: coffee w/ half half sausage scrambled egg with cheese and bacon about 1/5 of a leftover children’s burrito from urban burrito: a few bites of ground beef, beans, rice, cheese, tortilla. Coffee w/ half half Oatmeal and butter Mid-Afternoon: 1 can sardines packed in [...]

Health Reports \• June 22, 2011

for AG who hates my diet

I am going to do a daily post at night listing everything I ate that day. Starting with today. I enjoy food. I will be honest about what goes into my mouth.

Nutrition \• June 22, 2011

some rules of warfare

No calories, period, 8:00 pm to 8:00 am, every day. Respect bedtime. It is a minimum of seven hours before you must wake up. No processed foods. No wheat products. Completely avoid gluten. Avoid all foods made with refined sources of starch or added sugars; breads, crusts, and sweets are all against the rules. Limit [...]

Health Reports \• June 22, 2011

It’s war

I haven’t been sharing too much about my nutritional struggles on this blog. Let me cut out the BS and just say: I’ve been bad. It’s been six months, and over the past six months, I’ve mainly been bad. Now. It’s getting scary to me. This morning the scale says 198.5 lbs. The pants say: [...]

Strength Day \• June 21, 2011

tuesday squats

At ASC with Brian in the morning. Warm-Up: 200 meter run. Punching drills on the heavy bag. Mobility. Squat: 10 x 45 / 5 x 95 / 3 x 135 / 8 x 3 x 195. Volume: 4,680. First few sets of 195 were hard and sucked. They got easier. Rest periods averaged about 3 [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• June 19, 2011

monday at CFA

Monday AM at 6:00 I dragged myself to the old standby workout session at CrossFit Asheville, a workout combining push-press, box jumps, kettlebell swings, and finishing with a high-rep barbell metcon including hang power cleans, front squats, and push presses again. Push-Press: 4 x 45 / 4 x 75 / 4 x 95 / 4 [...]

Strength Day \• June 17, 2011

three pr lunch friday

Mid day training session at ASC yielded awesome results, namely, a bunch of PRs!

Strength Day \• June 15, 2011

another ohs pr

Wednesday AM at ASC I met up with Brian at 6:15. A quick warm up row (500 meters, 1:47, reverse splits from 2:03 to 1:33) followed by minimal mobility work, and we set out to do some Overhead Squats. Overhead Squats: 10 x 45 / 5 x 75 / 3 x 100 / 3 x [...]

Strength Day \• June 13, 2011

monday mid-day squats

Squats, 8 x 3 x 185 (Vol: 4440). 79% of 1 RM.

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• June 13, 2011

monday morning conditioning

Made it to the (sparsely attended!) six am class at CFA this morning. Here’s what I did. Hang Power Snatch: 3 x 75 / 3 x 85 / 3 x 95 / 2 x 105 / 2 x 110. Not too pleased with the 105 or 110 reps. Needed more speed and power; felt a [...]

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