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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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Strength Day \• January 13, 2012

fasted training

Friday morning at the gym I was in a very fasted state, running at about 19 hours (10:30 am to 5:30 am) when I got to work. Of course I drank some BCAAs before I began. Strength Warm Up karaoke, Airdyne for 5, floor work, bear crawl, knee raises, ballistic legs, mountain clmbers, stretching hips, [...]

Health Reports \• July 28, 2011

from PR to ER

Wednesday, July 27th started out great and ended in the crapper. Worked out, got a PR. Afternoon turned beautiful. Dug a sandcastle with my kids in the sun. It was an afternoon low tide and I went pipoboarding. Everything was awesome until I fell and broke my left radius (forearm). Workout 400 meter run (50 [...]

Conditioning \• July 14, 2011

lifting thursday and pipoboarding

Most of today was wet and drizzling. This workout was done in my driveway and on E. Shingle Mill Ln in Arch Cape. Wearing jungle combat boots even for the runs. Barefoot for the pipo boarding of course. Warm-Up 800 meter run Mobility (shoulders and hips) Deadlift: 10 x 45 / 5 x 135 / [...]

Strength Day \• July 4, 2011

independence day

Beautiful day. Got a workout in in the driveway during the afternoon. my beach weightlifting shoes are my jungle boots, and my platform is a dirt, sand and gravel drivewaythese wooden squat racks are unstable and crazy, and the iron plates and bar from play it again sports are merely functional, but this is beachfront [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• June 19, 2011

monday at CFA

Monday AM at 6:00 I dragged myself to the old standby workout session at CrossFit Asheville, a workout combining push-press, box jumps, kettlebell swings, and finishing with a high-rep barbell metcon including hang power cleans, front squats, and push presses again. Push-Press: 4 x 45 / 4 x 75 / 4 x 95 / 4 [...]

Strength Day \• June 17, 2011

three pr lunch friday

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

Strength Day \• June 10, 2011

friday fun at ASC

Friday afternoon workout, at ASC, with Brian Cohen: Warm Up 500 meter row 1:55 Double unders practice; best set was 7 DUs. 200 meter run Shoulder mobility and dumbbell calisthenics Leg stretches Some heavy bag Strength Front squat: 10 x 45 / 5 x 115 / 3 x 145 / 1 x 160 / 5 [...]

Strength Day \• May 30, 2011

weak monday front squats and clean and jerk

Monday AM I hit the 6:00 am Open Gym time at CFA, an option for memorial day. I did Front Squats and worked on my clean and jerk. Nothing special. Not a lot of volume. Not a lot accomplished. It didn’t feel like a very good day. I was slow. I was still sore as [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• April 6, 2011

wednesday front squat and first crack at wod three

Wednesday morning, going in to CFA at 6:00 am, I was already feeling nervous about open sectionals WOD #3, which had been announced the night before: 5 minutes max reps clean and jerk at 165 lbs. 165 lbs, that’s 100% of my 1 rep max! I knew I could do at least some reps but [...]

Strength Day \• March 19, 2011

saturday squats

Saturday morning I made it in to Open Gym at CFA, what to do? naturally, more squats. I am on a mission. The volume is beginning to ramp up a bit. In spite of problems with my set-up today (I accidentally went 5 pounds lighter than planned for 4 rounds) I still had a good [...]

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