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.
February 12, 2010

At the Seams

Today was all about being there, while everything else seemed to be falling apart at the seams, I made it to the gym and worked out. My time didn’t matter. What mattered was that I was doing 42 pull-ups, 100 sit-ups, and 45 push-ups as fast as I could.

October 23, 2009

Go Big or Go Home (Grace)

Training Cycle: Week 3/6 (Work Week)Dietary Cycle: Week 3/3 (Cutting)Daily Calorie Target: 2800 (Zone “blocks:” approx 24, 2.5x fat)Third WOD of this Week
I was excited going into today, knowing we’d be doing “Grace,” one of the simplest and straightforward of the CrossFit Benchmark workouts.
I had a decent sleep, not too bad, with only slight, normal [...]

July 27, 2009

Piss in Boots and Sunny Haze

Sean and I left for Indian Beach at 5:30 am; we were the first to arrive and were on the beach just after sunrise at about five ’til six. Conditions: patchy fog, fifty seven degree seas, light north winds, uneven seven foot swell, uneven, pretty short period. We made our way out by [...]

July 19, 2009

A Brief Dietary Check-In and Analysis

Two weeks into a five week summer surfing adventure, I start coming to grips with some new (old) bad habits and deficiencies. Sugar. Ice cream. Meal frequency. But so far, no serious problems with my body composition. In fact, I’m losing weight. Must be all the surfing.

July 19, 2009

Carpe Diem

Saturday, July 18th: The Morning Session
Yesterday morning the surf report from NOAA was pretty favorable, although the visible appearance of the sea was not too desirable. Desperate to surf, I headed to Short Sand Beach in Smuggler Cove, a little bit later than usual. I left out at 7:17, and worked my ass [...]

July 10, 2009

Tidepool

Sean McEnroe, Ben Walsh and I made it into the vehicle by about 6:00 am this morning and headed to Smuggler’s Cove. We were alone in the water. Partially cloudy skies, no wind, small surf, extreme low tide. We were the first ones to arrive and had the spot to ourselves the [...]

June 15, 2009

"Nasty Gals." PUC Day 31. Unassisted Pull Ups in WOD!

I tried and I tried to sleep last night, but sleep took hours coming. I went to the 6:00 am workout with only 4 hours of sleep under my belt. Inexplicably, today Lena woke up at 5:00 am, BEFORE I got out of bed. Sleep problems at home. 2 block breakfast [...]

June 5, 2009

Hands and Pulls. Chamber Challenge 5k. PUC Day 27.

Went to bed late again, woke up super early, after only about 5 hours of sleep, but feeling OK. Yesterday, thanks to two heavy high-grav beers in the evening, I had way too many carbs and just over 3000 calories… and the scale says I’m up about a pound for the week. I’ve [...]

June 3, 2009

Active Rest. PUC Postponed. Ring Play.

Active Rest and Recovery
I think I knew by 11:30 pm last night that I wasn’t going to make the 6:00 am workout at CrossFit Asheville today. I definitely knew at 5:20 am when my alarm went off. The past two days of Olympic lifting (Overhead Squats and Snatches) along with or incorporated into [...]

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