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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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Health Reports \• November 14, 2010

measures

Weighed in today, first time in two weeks. Obviously, the additional carbs in my diet, combined with seriously out of control cheating sessions every weekend for the past three weekends, has resulted in some unintended weight gain. I am about 5 pounds above where I want to be, although most of the gains would appear [...]

Health Reports \• October 31, 2010

check in: plan HTFU and body measures

I took Friday off from the WOD, and skipped my 5k sprint work and the WOD on Saturday. I’m damn glad I did. By Thursday morning this past week I was so wrecked from lack of sleep and general central nervous system overload (caused by excessive working out but also by stress from family and [...]

Health Reports \• October 24, 2010

Body Check

I didn’t get a chance to weigh in last week, so this weigh in period covers the past two weeks. In that time, I’ve made a few changes to my plans for recording body metrics. First, I won’t be reporting a body fat percentage based on my Tanita scale’s Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA) method, because [...]

Health Reports \• October 10, 2010

Weekend Weigh-In

Weight Measurements Saturday and Sunday Oct. 9-10 Weight Observed Body Fat % Implied Fat Mass Implied Lean Mass Comment 184.5 lbs 15% 28 lbs 156.5 lbs Saturday mid-day, post-sprints, post-hydration, breakfast, etc. 182 lbs 14% 25.5 lbs 156.5 lbs Later on Saturday. 182.5 15% 27.5 155 Sunday mid-day; low activity level. 182 14% 25.5 156.5 [...]

Active Rest \• October 3, 2010

Sunday Weigh-In

Apparently not a good week for me, body composition wise. It’s very hard to tell, but one thing I notice is that, once again, I wasn’t able to observe a 14% reading. So I have apparently gained a bit of fat in the past two weeks. Weight Measurements Sunday Oct. 3rd 2010 Weight Observed Body [...]

Health Reports \• September 27, 2010

Fat Weekend

Belated weigh-in numbers. They weren’t so hot. This is one week after the Half Marathon, a week of less working out, and the reintroduction of alcohol to my diet. Weight Measurements Sep. 25-27 2010 Weight Observed Body Fat % Implied Fat Mass Implied Lean Mass Comment 179 lbs 14% 25 lbs 154 lbs Saturday weight; [...]

Health Reports \• September 12, 2010

Weight and Comp Check-in

Time for another weigh-in. Looks like I lost a little bit of weight this week, but it will be impossible to tell how much of it was fat for another couple of weeks. Today’s measurements vary wildly because I started out the day with at least 48 oz. of water and a lot of coffee, [...]

Health Reports \• September 5, 2010

Weight and Comp

Sunday, Sep. 5th. My goals are: I am trying to maintain my weight at about 180 lbs, while steadily whittling away fat and getting new PRs in the gym. I am finding that I have to eat a LOT of food to stay at this weight. I am probably compromising “fat loss” but I don’t [...]

Health Reports \• August 29, 2010

Weigh In

Weight Measurements Sunday Aug. 29th Weight Observed Body Fat % Implied Fat Mass Implied Lean Mass Comment 180 lbs 17% 30.6 lbs 149.4 lbs Post run and breakfast. No way this is accurate. 181 lbs 16% 29 lbs 152 lbs Also an unlikely reading 179.5 lbs 15% 27 lbs 152.5 lbs This is closer to [...]

Health Reports \• August 22, 2010

Weigh In

Strict paleo for 30 days begins today. No alcohol, limited caffeine, no forbidden foods AT ALL, until Sep. 21st, which is a Tuesday, so, really, I won’t be drinking alcohol until the 24th, which is 33 days. The numbers today suggest I am pretty much flat for the week, although, I did not see the [...]

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