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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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CrossFit Asheville WODS \• October 23, 2009

Go Big or Go Home (Grace)

Training Cycle: Week 3/6 (Work Week)Dietary Cycle: Week 3/3 (Cutting)Daily Calorie Target: 2800 (Zone “blocks:” approx 24, 2.5x fat)Third WOD of this Week I was excited going into today, knowing we’d be doing “Grace,” one of the simplest and straightforward of the CrossFit Benchmark workouts. I had a decent sleep, not too bad, with only [...]

CrossFit Mothership WODS \• October 21, 2009

Fear of Burpees

Training Cycle: Week 3/6 (Work Week)Dietary Cycle: Week 3/3 (Cutting)Daily Calorie Target: 2800 (Zone “blocks:” approx 24, 2.5x fat)Second WOD of this Week Struggling to get out of bed today, I said to myself, concerning the WOD: “please, please, at least, let there be no burpees.” There were burpees. Why do I hate them so? [...]

CrossFit Mothership WODS \• September 7, 2009

One Hundred Fifty Burpees and 2400 Meters Later

Labor Day, CrossFit Asheville is closed. The holiday WOD posted by Shanna was not brutal enough for me. I decided to do yesterday’s Mothership WOD instead. I tried to recruit others. Alaska Mike overslept. So did I! But I still went to the track at UNCA and did it. I had arranged with Rustan to [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• August 21, 2009

Delirium Tremens

CrossFit Asheville does the Hero WOD “D.T.,” again. I use 105#. This is up from 95# in April. I am making my way slowly towards the Rx’d 155#.

CrossFit Mothership WODS \• August 13, 2009

PDX Four by Eight

In Portland for the day, went to the MAC very early (left 5:20 am) with my dad. Did the CrossFit Mothership WOD from a few days ago. WOD: Warm-Up 4 x 800 meter run Warm-Up Briefly: 1 minute of karaoke side stepping on a treadmill, some wrestling floor work, squats (15), push-ups (15), sit-ups (15), [...]

CrossFit Mothership WODS \• July 14, 2009

Get Up, Stand Up

Don’t Give Up the Fight I had a great workout today. It was my first real workout in a whole week, since I did “Neoprene” last Tuesday. I gave this WOD a name of my own, even though it is a classic and official “mothership” WOD, because it seems to me that the WOD is [...]

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