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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 \• February 5, 2012

week four wrap up

One twelve week cycle, two different areas of concern: (1) training for Squat 1.5 BW and Deadlift 2x Bodyweight, and (2) body recomposition, to 195 lbs (anywhere below 200 is ideal) with a lower body fat ratio. Training: during this week I hit one new PR — Squat 4 x 255. Obviously I wanted 5 [...]

Health Reports \• January 22, 2012

week two wrap up

The second week of my 12 week cycle ended on Saturday, Jan 21st, and here is my report. Training: I hit two new PRs during the week of Jan 15th to 21st. Mon, Jan 16th, I squatted 5 x 245. Wed, Jan 18th, I deadlifted 5 x 315. These both show that I am continuing [...]

Health Reports \• January 8, 2012

week 1: new twelve week cycle begins today

Today marks the start of two parallel but different 12 week cycles in my program. They are (a) a training cycle, and (b) a cycle of attempting to change the composition of my body. The 12 week cycle runs from today, January 8th, 2012, through March 31st, 2012. This post is a brief report on [...]

Health Reports \• November 25, 2011

wtf sinuses? chronic sinusitis and me

An Evil Six-Week Cold As of today, I’ve been suffering with a variety of evil cold and flu like symptoms for a hellish six weeks. Twice already, the symptoms have been so bad that I’ve visited my doctor; first back on Halloween and again this week. Both doctor visits resulted in an antibiotic prescription, even [...]

Health Reports \• November 5, 2011

revisiting training goals and plan

I seem to be getting smarter as I get stronger. Coincidence? See my revised training goals and plan here. This week of illness has forced me to rest, and therefore to reset my squat linear progression. Definitely not planned. My count of weeks will reset to I as of tomorrow. I am planning to restart [...]

Conditioning \• September 24, 2011

sled pulls on saturday and the ‘return’ of my fracking right shoulder

Week VI, Workout D Saturdays are fun at ASC, cause the kids run around, and we all goof around, and make plans for world domination, and usually, we eventually pull sleds and shit. Brian and Jamie and I got our weight bearing movement (aka “loaded carries”) on. I pulled a sled +90 lbs with a [...]

Health Reports \• September 8, 2011

six weeks later

Six weeks ago today I broke my left radius, and after several weeks off I started training again. If you’ve been reading this blog you’ve seen me struggling to make progress while using only one arm over the past month. Some days are better than others. Some days I have so much dull pain that [...]

Conditioning \• August 25, 2011

thursday run and one month later…

Another Run… Week II, Workout D. Thursday, August 25th, pre-lunch one mile run: 8:02. Best time of the first two weeks. It was hot, and I felt heavy. At the end it felt like about 90% RPE. A little less tweakage in my feet and knees from the new shoes today, but I felt some [...]

Health Reports \• August 19, 2011

new running shoes

Yesterday I tried on the New Balance Minimus… not impressed with the feel. I ended up buying a very light but stiff and well padded traditional running shoe by NB — the model I chose was the M780SL1. I think the “barefoot” running thing is not for me, after all. *Background: I trained for “barefoot” [...]

Health Reports \• August 15, 2011

food journal 054

Monday my food intake was a bit screwy. Early in the day (i.e. about 5:30 am) I started off with coffee and half and half. After my workout, before going to work, I had three eggs scrambled in coconut oil, plus a slice of cantaloupe. I also had a shake of milk, plain whey protein [...]

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