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 6, 2010

Birthday Slam (Sprit and Flesh)

Front squat, 3 sets 5 x 95-125, 3 sets 5 x 135 (no PRs here); “Slam Dunk” WOD at 169 reps.

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 5, 2009

Maximum Gluteus

A nice WOD to start a training cycle. And a cheat day. Too bad I wasted the opportunity!

September 29, 2009

Bear Country

The WOD known as “Bear Country” comes back around. 3 rounds of 5 bear complex cycles and max rep pull-ups. Also, Kip-Swings.

August 17, 2009

Going Ape

After a decent, but short sleep, and a one block breakfast, I got to CFA by about ten minutes to six for the WOD, totally clueless about what to expect. It was fun. SO GREAT TO BE BACK.
Warm-Up
Running H-Drills with side shuffles, low and high karaoke steps, etc. Stretching. Squats (15), [...]

June 23, 2009

"The Flash"

Slept in a bit, cause I could… Lena didn’t wake until after 7:00. Even with her two wakings between 12 and 1 I managed to get at least 6 hours of sleep. Cleaning around the house, breakfast was lots of coffee and “1.5″ block of food (but actually 1.5p/5f/1.5c). Note to self: [...]

June 12, 2009

"The Swinger." PUC Day 29.

My wake-up was a little hard. I went to bed at 10:30 but some itinerant folks were making loud party sounds in the creek behind my house the first part of the night, keeping Yael and I up. Not sure when I fell asleep, but not until after 11:00 pm. Also, I woke [...]

May 13, 2009

"Bear Hug." PUC Day 11.

Decent sleep, from 11:45 pm to 5:00 am. Obviously, not enough sleep. I need to do better there. It’s forcing myself to go to bed early that is tough. One block breakfast. Then, the 6:00 am CrossFit Asheville workout.
Warm Up
Basic Agility drills; shoulder dislocates; hip-mobility stretches; 1 round of: Push-ups, [...]

May 4, 2009

Front Squat, PUC Day 4

Decent sleep but not enough; low calorie day yesterday. One block breakfast (egg and grapefruit) before workout.
Front Squats
6:00 am. CrossFit Asheville WOD: find five rep max for front squat.
My workout:
10 x 20 kg bar
5 x 40 kg
5 x 50kg
5 x 54.535 kg (20 kg bar + 30 kg + 10 lbs)
5 x 59 [...]

January 30, 2009

Thrusters and other Olympic Lifts

So far I remain at novice level in Cross-Fit inspired workouts. But today I did some stuff that made me feel tough, and made me think about the virtues of Olympic Lifting.
The Olympic bar is used in regular gyms primarily on bench press set ups or, increasingly, in highly controlled smith-squat machines, where the [...]

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