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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 23, 2012

monday like friday

In my program Monday is like Friday is like last Monday. I’m loving the simplicity. The pattern of auxiliary lifts is different but the bones are the same. Warm-Up. Cycle, floor work, mobility. Squat: 5 x 45 lbs / 5 x 160 / 3 x 225 / 1 x 245 / 1 x 250 / [...]

Strength Day \• January 16, 2012

monday new squat pr

Warm-Up: Airdyne, 5 min or so, floor work of various kinds (high knees, mountain climbers, deadlift walk, karaoke, power skip, bounding), then stretching hips, hams, quads, calves, mobilizing shoulders, forearms, wrists, etc. Squat: 4 x 45 / 5 x 155 / 3 x 225 / 1 x 235 / 1 x 245 / 5 x [...]

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, [...]

Conditioning \• January 9, 2012

big monday

Super early start at ASC. Felt great to be there today. Warm-Up and Mobility: 500 meters on the C2. Then a variety of things like power skips, high knees, karaoke steps, mountain climbers, ballistic leg swings; and the usual mobilizing stretches. Squat: 5 x 45 / 5 x 155 / 3 x 225 / 1 [...]

Strength Day \• January 6, 2012

Birthday PR: new squat 1 RM

So, I’m 43 years old now. Friday AM at the gym I was encouraged by Matt Smith to get a new PR. So I set out after a new 1 RM in the squat. It’s been a long time since I did a day of heavy singles for maximum effort. Warm-Up: about 200 meters on [...]

Strength Day \• December 26, 2011

post Christmas strong

Monday after Christmas at the MAC. Warm Up 2 minute 1/2 Tabata on Airdyne. Good warm up! Need to Tabata more often. Mobility: hips, shoulders, quads, hams, ankles, calves Balance platform goblet squat: 5 x 45 lbs. Fun! Squat: 5 x 145 / 3 x 205 / 1 x 225 / 5 x 235. Not [...]

Strength Day \• December 23, 2011

the basics

Friday afternoon at the MAC. Warm-Up: 1250 meter row on the C2, about 5:03 Squat: 5 x 45 / 5 x 135 / 3 x 205 / 1 x 225 / 7 x 3 x 225. This was hard. What I am doing on Fridays right now is trying to get smoother and more powerful [...]

Workouts \• December 16, 2011

I am nothing if not persistent

Persistence is the key. You can say it’s hard work. But the harder thing is to persist. You can say it is talent. But just showing up is more important. Getting in reps. I keep showing up. For some reason I keep showing up, and doing work, and slowly but surely, I’ll attain my goals. [...]

Strength Day \• December 12, 2011

case of mondays

Oh things were hard this morning again. Not sure what’s the deal with my lifting. It’s not going well right now. My arms, from the shoulders to the triceps to the elbows to the forearms, on both sides… they feel so screwed up. Simply put. They are sore and constantly complaining when I’m in the [...]

Strength Day \• December 9, 2011

friday fry

Friday, Dec. 9th, 2011. Got started early, right around 5:00 am. Probably had about one hour less sleep than I needed. I think that hurt me on the squats (see below). warm-up C2 1250 meters easy pace (about 5:22 total time) mobility Hips, Hams, Quads, Calves, Ankles, Shoulders, Forearms, Wrists training squat 2 x 5 [...]

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