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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Outdoor Recreation \• December 24, 2011

christmas eve romp

Christmas Eve Saturday outdoor ramble with John Chun. Down the riverfront from Overton to the Steel Bridge, with some mobility work after 5 minutes, plus jumping, scaling fences — at one point, some homeless people called out to me, while I was sitting perched on top of a chain link gate, waiting for John, who [...]

Outdoor Recreation \• December 17, 2011

memento mori

Saturday I got out for a 45 minute ramble through Montford, to play in the steeply sloped Montford Community Center playground, and to scramble and sprint up the hills from the bottom of the Asheville Cemetery. Heart pounding, sweat drenched, I sprinted hills, clambered over fences and walls, leaped benches, scrambled on trees, ran stairs; [...]

Outdoor Recreation \• December 10, 2011

away from the numbers

On Saturday I went out for about 45 minutes for a great ramble, down the street, under the bridge, across the creek, along the avenue, on the byways, through the woods behind the USDA research center, scrambling along and jumping over fallen logs, box jumping up rock walls, going over fences, balancing, leaping from object [...]

Conditioning \• September 4, 2011

sunday run

Week IV, Workout A Normally, a Sunday is a rest day for me but my endurance needs work, and my love handles are soft, so, a short run won’t hurt me, I figure. I took week III off of running, but week IV began with a slightly longer run than the runs I was doing [...]

Outdoor Recreation \• August 12, 2011

North Coast pipoboarding (skimboarding), and my broken arm (pix and vids)

This is a video and picture gallery of me “pipoboarding” (or “pypoboarding”), which is the old school term used on the North Coast (of Oregon) for skimboarding. All of the photos of actual pipoboarding come from mid to late July, 2011. Unfortunately, on Wednesday, July 27th, another beautiful pipoboarding session ended in disaster for me, [...]

Outdoor Recreation \• July 26, 2011

awesome tuesday Oswald gloaming session

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” — Aldous Huxley surfing 12 Everything happens only once. It is so important to remember that even within a routine, even within a pattern of praxis, what you are doing right now is inherently unique and unrepeatable. We never [...]

Outdoor Recreation \• July 23, 2011

surfing, sandcastling, skimboarding

There are lessons one can only learn from surf and sand. What a glorious week of skimboarding sessions… afternoon low tides Monday through Saturday meant that most days we were out kicking the pipoboards around. Also, great weather, and friends in town, meant lots of kids on the beach, and a heck of a lot [...]

Outdoor Recreation \• July 18, 2011

a great monday

A sunny day… the first in several days. I got plenty of exercise and vitamin D! In the well-timed mid-morning low tide, Ben Walsh and I got a fair amount of pipoboarding. This is not a “workout,” but we did a large number of barefoot sprints on the sand, skimming, twisting. All in all, a [...]

Outdoor Recreation \• July 17, 2011

Sunday mid-day

Surfing 08 Sunday I spent from about 1:30 to 6:00 pm out of the house, in a pretty active state. I went to Short Sand beach (in Smuggler Cove at Oswald West State Park) to surf for about 60 minutes or so from about 2:00 to 3:00 pm. The surfing was ok. Nothing huge, nothing [...]

Conditioning \• July 14, 2011

lifting thursday and pipoboarding

Most of today was wet and drizzling. This workout was done in my driveway and on E. Shingle Mill Ln in Arch Cape. Wearing jungle combat boots even for the runs. Barefoot for the pipo boarding of course. Warm-Up 800 meter run Mobility (shoulders and hips) Deadlift: 10 x 45 / 5 x 135 / [...]

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