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CrossFit, nutrition, the Paleo-Zone diet, weight loss, my workouts, and reflections and reviews of various related topics that interest me.

I train 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.

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March 19, 2010

Bloodwork

My bloodwork has improved greatly this year. I’m fit as a fiddle, according to the numbers.

January 6, 2010

New Year, New Program

It seemed like it was time to put the old program to bed, and to make up a new program. All hail the new program!

December 2, 2009

Recovery

A rest day discussion of recovery time.

November 11, 2009

After Fasting

I complete my first ever full day fast. In this post I debrief on the experience and consider its effects on my body, mind, and spirit.

November 9, 2009

Rest Week Reflections

As I enter the last week of my second cycle through the “new plan” (aka the “Never on a School Night” plan), I pause to reflect on, to analyze, and to assess the measurements I have made in the process of my training.

November 2, 2009

On Zone Blocks, and my Zone Prescription

Close readers of this blog know that I use Barry Sears’ “Zone” diet system as the foundation of my eating plan. And that, like many CrossFitters who are into the Zone, I eat a high-fat version of the diet. In this post I break down my thinking about how much I am eating, when I eat it, and why.

October 25, 2009

My Experiment with Calorie Cycling

On a rest day, I do a quick examination of my attempt, over the past 9 weeks, to use calorie cycling to meet my body composition goals.

October 21, 2009

Fear of Burpees

Training Cycle: Week 3/6 (Work Week)Dietary Cycle: Week 3/3 (Cutting)Daily Calorie Target: 2800 (Zone “blocks:” approx 24, 2.5x fat)Second WOD of this Week Struggling to get out of bed today, I said to myself, concerning the WOD: “please, please, at least, let there be no burpees.” There were burpees. Why do I hate them so? [...]

October 14, 2009

Pistol Packin’ Franzilla

Pistols. And a fascinating, heavy Met-Con WOD, called Franzilla, involving 21 Front-squats, 15 push-presses, and 9 thrusters, alternating with pull-ups.

October 13, 2009

Sisyphus

I get to thinking about the purpose of it all. Is striving ultimately meaningless? Is work futile? Or should we embrace our absurd isolation in this universe as the greatest of all possible challenges: to progress.

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