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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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Conditioning \• July 14, 2011

lifting thursday and pipoboarding

Most of today was wet and drizzling. This workout was done in my driveway and on E. Shingle Mill Ln in Arch Cape. Wearing jungle combat boots even for the runs. Barefoot for the pipo boarding of course. Warm-Up 800 meter run Mobility (shoulders and hips) Deadlift: 10 x 45 / 5 x 135 / [...]

Outdoor Recreation \• July 12, 2011

three days of miracles

Surfing (and Kayaking) 04-07 Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, July 10th through 12th. The wind has been down, and when it has been blowing, it’s been coming from the south. It’s brought moist warm air and warm surface waters to the North Coast. The hard, regional WNW swell that was kicking up so much sand during the [...]

Cheat Days \• July 12, 2011

food journal 017-020

What can I say? It’s vacation. The days that these entries would correspond to are (17) Saturday, July 9th, (18) Sunday, July 10th, (19) Monday, July 11th, and (20) Tuesday, July 12th. I’ve been eating a lot of tacos. I love tacos with corn tortillas. I bought some local wild ling cod and local cabbage [...]

Cheat Days \• July 8, 2011

food journal 016

Friday July 8th 2011 Lousy sleep and only 11 hours of fasting under my belt when I ate breakfast at 8:30 am: Coffee w/ half half 3 eggs fried in butter Leftover kale greens made w/ onion, olive oil and salt Fried leftover russet potato (a couple of oz) Sausage patties (maybe 3 oz) Two [...]

Conditioning \• July 8, 2011

friday squats and Grace 1000

Another great workout in our driveway (aka “Arch Cape Strength and Conditioning”) here this afternoon. Warm up 800 meter run Shoulder mobility 50 jumping Jacks 20 double unders (sucked so bad) Hip and leg mobility 10 x 45 x each back squat, front squat, overhead squat 10 push ups 10 sit ups Strength Squat (LBBS) [...]

Health Reports \• July 7, 2011

food journal 015

Thursday, July 7th, 2011 Ate breakfast at 8:30 am, after 13.5 hours of fasting. Got about 10 hours of sleep overnight, almost unbroken (except for a brief get up from 5:10 to 5:20 am, during which time I decided to bail on surfing). Felt awesome. Wild Salmonberry from the margins of Oswald West State Park [...]

Cheat Days \• July 6, 2011

food journal 010-014 utter defeat

When I last updated this stupid food journal the VERY long (five day) Fourth of July weekend was just about to begin. Friday, July 1st was to have been day 10; today, Wednesday, July 6th would have been day 14. That’s a long cheat on a “warpath” that’s barely 2 weeks old. It also means [...]

Outdoor Recreation \• July 5, 2011

murphy’s law

Surfing session 03 Very early Tuesday morning, July 5th, did not look especially promising. On the plus side: almost no wind, only very light breezes from NNE, which meant that the beach break at Short Sand would be clean. Blue skies, which meant that the sun would come up over the basin of Smuggler Cove. [...]

Strength Day \• July 4, 2011

independence day

Beautiful day. Got a workout in in the driveway during the afternoon. my beach weightlifting shoes are my jungle boots, and my platform is a dirt, sand and gravel drivewaythese wooden squat racks are unstable and crazy, and the iron plates and bar from play it again sports are merely functional, but this is beachfront [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• July 2, 2011

chop and stop

Surfing session 02 Saturday I tried to catch the latter half of the falling high tide, setting out at about 5:30 am for Indian Beach. It was mid 50s outside, overcast, drizzling, light north winds. According to one source, at 5:00 am, the buoy reports said the water was 53 degrees; according to another, they [...]

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