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 23, 2010

The “Paleo” Cheat Day (Coco-Cocoa-Banana Pudding Recipe)

An experimental recipe for a pretty tasty Paleo “Coco-Cocoa-Banana-Pudding” creates a great opportunity for overeating and storing a few extra calories as fat.

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!

December 2, 2009

Quality versus Quantity

I address the debate between the Quantity and Quality approaches to diet; Zone versus Paleo? Paleo-Zone? As usual, I end up straddling the fence.

November 22, 2009

Airport Eating and the American Diet

A rest day and travel day finds me trying to eat breakfast while in the airports of Asheville and Charlotte. Which leads to another rant on American eating habits.

November 11, 2009

After Fasting

I complete my first ever full day fast. In this post I debrief on the experience and consider its effects on my body, mind, and spirit.

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.

November 7, 2009

Purposive Cheating

Another planned cheat day reminds me of the purpose of cheating on purpose.

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 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.

hi mom!