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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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CrossFit Asheville WODS \• February 28, 2011

power trio

Monday morning at CFA, we did Front Squats and a wicked little three round trio of Kettlebell Thrusters, Sandbag Cleans, and Ball Slams. Strength: Front Squat Bar weight warm-up. Then 5 x 95 / 5 x 115 / 5 x 135 / 5 x 155 / 4 x 170 (fail on 5) . Volume: 3,180. [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• January 24, 2011

The Mondays

CFA 6:00 am, only 5+ hours sleep, fasted of course. Hardly no caffeine (3 oz. iced coffee, maybe?), or Jack3d, etc., though. Case of the Mondays for sure. Not really sure what all was eating me. Not feeling 100%; not even close. Warm-up: jumprope, and ohs squat holds, plus calisthenics Front-Squat 3011 tempo, 5 sets: [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• January 14, 2011

Happy New Year

After taking three weeks off of CrossFit and two weeks off of lifting I can sincerely say: “oh yeah, CrossFit is freaking HARD.” LOL. Today’s WOD at CFA was Pull & Squat. Strength was Power Clean. Power Clean Rx’d: 5-7 sets of 3. 3×45 3×115 3×135 3×145 3×155 (+10 lb PR) 1×165 (f on 2) [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• November 22, 2010

squat run lift jump

Fun workout at CFA this morning. Warm-Up. Pose drills followed by 200 meter sprint. Dislocates and mobility. Overhead Squats (10); PVC Sotts Press (10); Pull-ups (7, 2, 1 w/ purple band); Push-Ups (20). Front Squat: 10 x 45 / 5 x 95 / 3 x 120 / 1 x 155 / 5 x 165 (PR) [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• November 15, 2010

Fran … Please!

I hate Fran but at least today went better (i.e. heavier and faster) than my last glimpse of her went. But circumstances are against me. I have yet to do a prescribed Fran; either novicity, or weakness, or injury has always prevented me when Fran comes around. One day I’ll be ready for Fran, but [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• November 8, 2010

FS plus OHS TTB and Almighty Burpees!

Front Squat 5 x 3 x 95% (150 lbs) @ 90s this morning. Warmed-up with the usual drill and then 10 x 45 / 5 x 3 x 150. Total volume: 2,700. AMRAP in 10 minutes: 7 Overhead Squats (Rx’d at 70% of 5 RM, for me, 80 lbs), 7 toes to bar, 7 burpees. [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• November 1, 2010

Front Squat Land (Franzilla)

Strength: Front Squat Front Squat 12 x 2 x 115 lbs @ 30s. 115 lbs is about 74% of my current 5 RM, which put me above the target 70% but I was happy to do it. I’ve been working the front squat repeatedly lately. WOD: Franzilla WOD was “Franzilla” (21 front squats, 21 pull-ups, [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• October 25, 2010

Front Squat 4 x 80% Max Reps and 500 meter Row

Strength: Front Squat Front Squat 4 x 80% max reps in 30s @ 180s intervals. I used 125 lbs. Result: 12, 11, 9, 9. 41 reps. Total volume = 5,125. In comparison with last 80% max reps session (Sep. 16), with volume of 4,945, this represents a slight improvement. But not a great one. My [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• October 22, 2010

Front Squat 5 x 3 and Ugly Bugly

I’m calling today’s WOD at CFA “Ugly Bugly” because that’s how it made me feel. Warm-Up The usual. Included pull-ups and push-ups. Strength: Front Squat 5 x 3 Having missed the WOD on Monday I missed a crucial step in our Front Squat progressions. So I did that today, since the programmed strength session was [...]

Active Rest \• October 14, 2010

Front Squat Rehab

Warm-Up followed by 50% (~75 lbs, rounded down) x 4 x max reps in 30s @ 90s intervals: 15, 15, 14, 14 Followed by manual therapy. Rest weekend coming up… family trip to Rhode Island. I will do my 5k sprint work on Saturday AM and possibly some surfing at Narragansett on Sunday and Monday. [...]

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