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.
December 5, 2009

My Lumberjack 20

An account of my painful, extended experience with the Lumberjack 20 (time: 34:43).

December 4, 2009

Ring Dips and Nicole

Nicole and ring dips made me feel like a weak sister today. I’m not sure why. Could it be the “low carb” days I’ve been eating?

November 16, 2009

Nancy Boy

My first workout into a new training & eating cycle. We work on single support hang power cleans, which are comically difficult, and do the CrossFit benchmark WOD “Nancy;” my result: 15:18 w/ 65 lbs.

October 20, 2009

Five by Four at Thirty Five Degrees

Back Squats, and CFA revisits “Inclement Weather,” a WOD I missed back at the end of July. The WOD was well named for this 35 degree morning, as I did five rounds of 400 meter sprints outside in the cold.

September 19, 2009

animum adeptare

A normal Saturday work-out day is followed by a night on the town with my CFA buds, leading to a wicked drinking binge. Ouch!

September 8, 2009

Atlantis Revisited

Deadlifts and “Atlantis.” New PRs, but concerns about proper form send me in a new direction.

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. [...]

September 4, 2009

Holiday Obstacles

I don’t get Labor Day off of work. But CrossFit Asheville will be closing on Saturday and Monday since coaches Shanna and Corey are headed to Folly Beach. No complaints. I am sure they deserve a beach break, and all I can say is, I myself have never missed an opportunity to [...]

August 29, 2009

Change

A killer WOD in which I lifted 7,125 pounds overhead and ran 1.25 miles in 21:21. But Daniel appears to have done even more work, in fewer rounds. It’s a puzzle.

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 [...]

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