Training Board is about…

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 26, 2012

Week seven recap

My twelve week training and body recomposition cycle continues with further evidence of progress. Training: I set two meaningful PRs this week: 5 x 260 back squat and 5 x 330 deadlift. Both felt good and both brought me closer to my goals, in spite of shoulder pain that has brought my pressing to a [...]

Health Reports \• February 19, 2012

week six wrap

As of Sautrday, Feb. 18 I completed my sixth week of 2012′s first, 12 week training cycle. I can report mixed success for the start of 2012, in spite of injuries, illnesses, set backs, what have you, I have been making tangible progress on my two main areas of concern, training and body recomposition. Training: [...]

Health Reports \• February 12, 2012

week five wrap up

Made tangible progress on both training and body recomposition goals in week five of my twelve week training cycle. Training: it was a big week for training, including an extra session on Saturday at the Rippetoe clinic. I made a couple of PR’s. PR in Squat on Monday (5 x 255) and PR in Deadlift [...]

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 [...]

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