About Training Board

My name is Matt Baldwin and in this blog I record my fitness and workout routines, and I discuss diet and weight loss techniques. I also publish reflections or reviews of various fitness and nutrition related topics that interest me.

I am into CrossFit and I work out with the crew at CrossFit Asheville here in Asheville, NC.

If anything I have posted seems useful to you, let me know with a comment.
February 24, 2010

Setback and Setbacks

An account of my surgery, and the subsequent complications, and reflection on my recovery and its impact on my training routine.

February 6, 2010

Fasting Again

A list of questions emerge for me after my most recent fast.

February 4, 2010

Reflecting on the May 22nd Program

I review the rules of my program and discuss my recent compliance, or lack of compliance, with it.

January 6, 2010

Birthday Slam (Sprit and Flesh)

Front squat, 3 sets 5 x 95-125, 3 sets 5 x 135 (no PRs here); “Slam Dunk” WOD at 169 reps.

January 6, 2010

New Year, New Program

It seemed like it was time to put the old program to bed, and to make up a new program. All hail the new program!

December 21, 2009

Divine Intervention

The birth of my second child, James Zebediah, is a divine intervention into my scheduled, and managed life. The way we deal with the rhythms and routines of life is to embrace change and disorder without while not bringing it within.

December 13, 2009

Making Grades

“I paid for a hamburger, not a shitburger. Why have you given me a shitburger?”

November 11, 2009

After Fasting

I complete my first ever full day fast. In this post I debrief on the experience and consider its effects on my body, mind, and spirit.

November 9, 2009

Rest Week Reflections

As I enter the last week of my second cycle through the “new plan” (aka the “Never on a School Night” plan), I pause to reflect on, to analyze, and to assess the measurements I have made in the process of my training.

October 13, 2009

Sisyphus

I get to thinking about the purpose of it all. Is striving ultimately meaningless? Is work futile? Or should we embrace our absurd isolation in this universe as the greatest of all possible challenges: to progress.

hi mom!