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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Active Rest \• May 20, 2011

mon wed thu fri this week

Monday hit CFA 6:00 am warm up included shoulder work then did the WOD. Best OHS # was 12 x 95. Will look up the rest. Afternoon included multiple rounds of jump rope and wood chopping and splitting with axe, 10 lb sledge and 5 lb wedge. Also: pull ups dead hang weighted 1 x [...]

Active Rest \• May 10, 2011

tuesday active rest

AM early: mobility work! on shoulder and forearms; shadow karate/boxing punches. Afternoon: 10 minutes of playing around with jumprope; pushups (10); weighted +5 pull ups (2); weighted +5 ring dip (1). Later: Watched two mobility WOD videos. Evening: hamstring stretches; foam rolling; wooden ball rolling on shoulder and arms; ring dips (2); squat mobility. Purpose [...]

Rest Days \• May 8, 2011

summer is here (plan apotheosis)

The life of an academic has some real perks, the most obvious of which is the summer break from full time teaching duties. For me, Summer 2011 began yesterday. I guess I celebrated with heavy cleans and some sandbag sprints. Now, on this first rest day of summer, I’m cooking up some plans to revitalize [...]

Health Reports \• April 24, 2011

weigh-in and updated weight chart

I’ve decided it’s time to update my weight chart and to post my weight and umbilical measurement weekly, as a way of forcing myself to be a bit more accountable about how my diet and level of training affects my body. Today’s weigh-in: 192.0 lbs, down 1.5 lbs from last Sunday.

Health Reports \• April 10, 2011

the hectic life (sunday weigh in and check in)

Lately, life has been impossible to “manage,” and it’s all I can do just to keep up a workout schedule alongside the whole “I have a full time job that’s been demanding more lately than it has in years and so does my wife and we have two small children and it’s my four year [...]

Health Reports \• March 23, 2011

one of the many benefits of fasting

So, on Tuesday of this week, a rest day, I had an appointment with my physician, Dr. Joshua Bernstein, to do my annual physical exam and get my bloodwork run. I’ll report back in a couple of days when I get the results of the bloodwork and talk about how it compares with my last [...]

Health Reports \• March 6, 2011

weight and body metrics check-in

Sunday morning, dark and early, I took the following measurements: Body Measurements Date Weight Observed Suprailliac Skinfold Body Fat % Fat Mass Lean Mass Umbilical Bicep Thigh Shoulder/Chest 3/6/2011 186 7+ mm >11.5+% >21.4 lbs <164.6 lbs 34 5/16″ 14 1/8″ 21 11/16″ 47 5/16″ (sh) / 39 3/4″ (ch) 2/20/2011 182.0 lbs 6mm+ 11.5% [...]

Reflections \• March 3, 2011

some notes on my current training habits

Day by Day by Day Things have been disorganized in my training life lately. I wish it weren’t so but there it is. The chaos reflects the general disorder of all pertinent systems and structures in my life: diet, sleep, teaching and grading, parenting and family life, finances, house maintenance, automobiles, babysitting. I am flying [...]

Rest Days \• February 20, 2011

back on track (yes it’s that easy)

The data looks good today. And as a result, superficial as it is, I am feeling good! In the past two weeks I have pulled my eating together, kept my training schedule up, and done well as a consequence. Eating fewer carbs, and returning to a near-IF schedule of eating, means I have lost a [...]

Reflections \• February 13, 2011

Glenn Pendlay USAW Cert at CrossFit Downtown Winston

Over this past weekend I spent most of my waking hours in the company of one of the great American coaches of Olympic Weightlifting, Glenn Pendlay. Pendlay brought his expertise to a USA Weightlifting Level I Coaches certification seminar sponsored by Peter Haas of Triad Barbell and CrossFit Downtown Winston. The seminar lasted two full [...]

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