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 10, 2010

Program Review

A quick review of my “May 22nd Program” plan. Things are going fine.

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!

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.

October 28, 2009

Push Back

Training Cycle: Week 4/6 (Work Week)Dietary Cycle: Week 1/3 (Building)Daily Calorie Target: 3350 (Zone “blocks:” approx 23 pro/cho [161 g / 207 g], 69 fat [207 g])Second WOD of this Week
My sleep was horrible. Not sure why. Probably I should cut back on TV and computer after the dinner hour. 1 block [...]

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 11, 2009

Progress in Spite of Shortcomings

In spite of my many shortcomings, and difficulties with self-discipline and just getting through my days, I am making progress.

October 5, 2009

Worst. Cheat. Day. Ever.

All month long I wait for my “cheat day” to come along. And then I go and blow it eating a bunch of useless, tasteless crap. From which I deduce that the Paleo-Zone pretty much ruins a persons chances of ever enjoying normal (i.e. crappy) food again.

September 27, 2009

Retrospect: Five Weeks on the School Plan

I examine my training and nutrition over the past five weeks in the light of my “never on a school night” plan, which I established on August 23rd. The results are mixed, but I seem to be healthy and on track for good things as I move forward with the plan.

September 24, 2009

Brillat-Savarin’s Physiology of Taste

Reviews and discusses the historical and gastronomical significance of The Physiology of Taste, the 1825 book by the brilliant French gourmand Jean-Anthelm Brillat-Savarin.

September 15, 2009

Yeah, but is it Paleo? Black Beans

Tackling the question: are Black Beans acceptable on the Paleolithic diet? The answer is, it depends on how flexible you are feeling.

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