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.
January 20, 2010

Heavy KBs and Clean Rowing

Kettlebell swings, 10 x 45 / 10x 53 / 5 x 10 x 2 pood. Then: 4 rounds of Clean and Jerks and Rowing for Watts, max reps (used 120 lbs): 24 reps and 1276 watts.

January 2, 2010

Cindy full of Grace

My first WOD of 2010 was this fun CFA number, blending Grace with nine rounds of Cindy for a tough, 17+ minute slog. I used 85 lbs on the C&J.

December 29, 2009

Deadlift, Muscle Ups, Clean and Jerk

New 3 rep max PR on Deadlift, 290 lbs; plus 40 (band assisted) muscle ups and 5×5x95 clean and jerks.

December 11, 2009

Ten Minutes of Ground to Overhead

Today’s workout in solidarity with the athletes competing in the Carolina Fitness Challenge: 3×3 of 135 Clean Pulls, then a 10 minute AMRAP of Clean and Jerks. I used 120 lbs and did 40 reps total.

December 8, 2009

Back Squat and Grace

Another “strength Tuesday:” Back Squats 1 rep ME (I got 185 lbs, my new max but not a PR) and Grace w/ 110 lbs, 4:34 seconds, a 1:21 improvement over last time!

November 17, 2009

Clean, Jerk, Deadlift

First of my new program of Tuesday Strength Days. I set a new PR in Clean and Jerk at 140 lbs, and did work sets in Deadlift at 225 lbs.

September 14, 2009

Hardcore

A demanding CrossFit Asheville WOD involving Push-Jerk training and a MetCon with 400 meter sprints and max rep Clean and Jerks with 103 lbs. Quick and dirty. My favorite kind of workout. New 3 rep max Push Jerk PR: 140 lbs.

June 9, 2009

Gravity and Grace

Sleep was decent, from about 10:30 pm to 6:00 am, with a brief interruption, which I can’t even remember, from Lena waking. Coffee w/ milk. 2 block breakfast. Some housework, then off to the 9:00 am CrossFit Asheville class.
Warm-Up
Hamstring and calf stretching. Agility running, crawling, etc. Shoulder dislocates. Sampson [...]

May 9, 2009

Graduation. PUC Day 8.

The fact that I had to attend Mars Hill College’s 2009 graduation ceremonies (occupational hazard) prevented me from joining CrossFit Asheville in doing “Grace” today. Grace is a brutal full-body benchmark workout (30 reps of Clean and Jerk, for time; Rx’d at 135#; I probably would have attempted 115# or 95#, unless coached lower). [...]

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