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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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Conditioning \• June 27, 2011

my monday conditioning

Yes, I did some conditioning work today, even as the clock ticks away counting down to our trip to Oregon. Monday, round about 1:00 pm, from my home. Warm-Up 20 double unders. Brief mobility work. Conditioning 25 burpees walk to course start 800 meter run (1/2 mile run) walking cool down, 2 min 25 burpees [...]

Strength Day \• June 17, 2011

three pr lunch friday

Mid day training session at ASC yielded awesome results, namely, a bunch of PRs!

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• June 6, 2011

monday conditioning and lifting

A full Monday. I was stoked to see this morning’s workout at CrossFit Asheville. Back to a more simple and direct program? Maybe so. In the meantime, I’ll take today. CFA WOD: Hang Cleans, Double Unders, and 8 min AMRAP of burpees and running Hang Cleans: 5 x 45 / 5 x 75 / 5 [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• March 25, 2011

friday lactate session: “Toxic”

I felt good about being at the 6:00 am WOD on Friday: 6 rounds of 90s max effort: 250m row, 10 x 72 lb. KB swings, max reps burpees. 4:30 rest between rounds. During rest periods we alternated between 5-6 reps of eccentric ring rows or ring dips. fastest row: maybe sub 0:44; slowest row: [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• March 14, 2011

quick note on monday lactate session

6:00 am at CFA the WOD today was 4 x max reps in 30s Thrusters (w/ 80 lbs, ~60% of Thruster 3 RM), with 3:30 rest; followed by 4 rounds of 75 second max effort: 4 pull ups, 8 goblet squats (53 lbs), max reps burpees, @ every 5 minutes (3:45 rest). Result: Thrusters: 12, [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• March 11, 2011

unraveling and beyond

Friday morning at 6:00 am I showed up to CFA, and was greeted by the sight of a wonderfully brutal workout on the whiteboard. Brief warm up: including blue band dead hang pull ups (11); ring dips (1, 3, 3, 2); front squats (45# x 10); and toes to bar (5). Power Snatch and Box [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• February 23, 2011

virulent

At 6:00 am on Wednesday I showed up for the WOD at CFA (“Camel Clutch”). This was after 3 days of rest. Sunday was a normal rest day. Monday was a planned extra rest day, which I took in preparation for doing an OPT assessment on Tuesday with Shanna. But Tuesday became an unplanned rest [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• January 28, 2011

Clean Winds

Friday morning 6:00 am, doing just a wee bit better on the sleep front, I was there. Warmed up, got loose, did below the knee cleans 3×3 and (full) cleans 3×3 then Burpees and Power Cleans, 20/10-16/8-12/6-8/4-4/2 (total of 60 burpees and 30 power cleans). Cleans Result: below the knee: 3 x 75 / 3 [...]

Active Rest \• December 6, 2010

sick day / light day

A second night of terrible sleep… J.Z. and I both have colds, so he kept waking up, as did I. And my cold is probably worse today than yesterday; I’m losing my voice, I have a scratchy throat and eyes, and runny nose. Damn. At 5:15 my cell-phone alarm clock buzzed, and I turned it [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• November 24, 2010

the sun and the rain

no sun or rain at 5:55 am when I left for CFA, just low clouds and wet fog. Warm up pose drills out in the parking lot, mobility and dislocates, push ups (20), pull-ups dead hang (5, 3, 1, 1) overhead squats (10), PVC sotts press (10), knees to elbows (10). Strength/skill handstand push up [...]

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