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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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Active Rest \• December 9, 2010

psycho somatic

So, Wednesday am at the WOD I apparently tweaked something in my right shoulder. I felt a slight twinge right before the WOD but didn’t notice any real pain. All day long I was fine. The pain came on hours later. Evening time I was cleaning up after dinner, I reached for something on the [...]

Active Rest \• December 6, 2010

sick day / light day

A second night of terrible sleep… J.Z. and I both have colds, so he kept waking up, as did I. And my cold is probably worse today than yesterday; I’m losing my voice, I have a scratchy throat and eyes, and runny nose. Damn. At 5:15 my cell-phone alarm clock buzzed, and I turned it [...]

Active Rest \• December 2, 2010

squats, pull-ups and the magic touch

Ha! magic touch. That’s what I call manual therapy with Corey. Fooled you I did. Warm-Up. With the 6:30 am CFA crew. Jump-rope, lunges, inchworms, dislocates. Pull-ups (12, blue band; 6, red band); push-ups (20); overhead squats (10); sotts press w/ pvc (10); standing behind the neck press w/ pvc (10); side-plank (90s per side). [...]

Active Rest \• November 21, 2010

mo pulls

more dead hang training (finger) grip pull-ups On Saturday… 2 sets of 6 pull ups, 4 sets of 3 pull-ups (24 total); scattered through afternoon. On Sunday… 4 sets of 6 pull ups, 2 sets of 3 pull-ups (30 total); through day.

Active Rest \• November 13, 2010

Raking the Leaves

It’s official, I have taken more than a week off of sprinting and running training. Slept in today (until 7:00 am! Woo hoo! ) and skipped the WOD at CFA too. Glad for it. I did not need to work on a new Push Press PR today, or to pound myself with more than 100 [...]

Active Rest \• November 11, 2010

Back Squat Sets and Adjustment

This morning… Warm-Up: Row 500 meters (1:52); Jump Rope 3 min (20 sec on / 10 sec off); dislocates and mobility; Push-Ups (15); Pull-Ups (10x red band); Overhead Squats (10) and Sotts Press w/ PVC (10); GHD extensions (10). Back Squat: 80% x ‘max reps’ x 5 rounds @ 180s Totally mentally unprepared for it [...]

Active Rest \• November 9, 2010

Tuesday Sleep In

Yes that’s right I slept in today, until 7:00 am. It felt beautiful to be in bed for a full 9 hours. I skipped the WOD, thinking I would be able to lift at the YMCA during Lena’s Yoga class this afternoon at 4:00 (I was planning on a bench press 5×5 and deadlifting). That [...]

Active Rest \• November 4, 2010

Thursday Morning Therapy

Warm-Up. Jump-Rope. 500m row. Dislocates and Sampson stretches. Burpees. Squats w 45# bar. Back Squat. 10 x 45 // then… 12 x 2 x 125 (70%) @ 30s intervals. Volume: 3,450. Additional play: handstand push-ups, false grip practice. Manual therapy with Corey… focus on right foot (warding off possible metacarpal problem from barefoot/vibram FF running). [...]

Active Rest \• October 28, 2010

Run and Squat

Active Rest / Plan HTFU / Manual Therapy 1.1 mile run in 8:14.56 (7:29.58 pace). Back Squat. Supposed to run it at 70% (125). But I accidentally grabbed 25 lb plates instead of 35 lb plates. So I used only 105, which is 58%, and 5 lbs less than last week! Oh well. Set back. [...]

Active Rest \• October 21, 2010

Back Squat Rehab

Plan HTFU, Part I Additional #1: Pre-Lifting One Mile Run at 70% RPE. Actual route: 1.1 miles.  View Larger Map Result: 9:03 (Pace: 8:13.2 mile) Warm-Up w/ CFA The usual stuff. Manual Therapy with Corey Corey’s RX: basic strength progression for training new 5 RM, round I: 60% 2×12@30s. I used 110 lbs. 2 reps [...]

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