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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 \• October 28, 2009

Push Back

Training Cycle: Week 4/6 (Work Week)Dietary Cycle: Week 1/3 (Building)Daily Calorie Target: 3350 (Zone “blocks:” approx 23 pro/cho [161 g / 207 g], 69 fat [207 g])Second WOD of this Week My sleep was horrible. Not sure why. Probably I should cut back on TV and computer after the dinner hour. 1 block breakfast, coffee, [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• October 6, 2009

Surrender, My Foot!

Training Cycle: Week 1/6 (Work Week)Dietary Cycle: Week 1/3 (Building)Daily Calorie Target: 3100 (Zone “blocks:” approx 24, 2.5x fat)Second Workout this Week A lousy night’s sleep, following my “worst cheat day ever” left me feeling dissipated and dissolute, absolutely spaced out and ugly this morning. Not a great WOD. Strength/Skill: Push Jerk Result: 5 x [...]

Cheat Days \• September 26, 2009

Six Moves, Ninety Reps, Eleven Minutes

The last WOD of a five week training cycle: L-Sits and a tricky met-con with six different olympic lifts. Next week I get to rest, thank God. Also, another Saturday night on the town leads to an extremely high calorie day, and a couple of different cheat items, and an excess of alcohol.

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• September 14, 2009

Hardcore

A demanding CrossFit Asheville WOD involving Push-Jerk training and a MetCon with 400 meter sprints and max rep Clean and Jerks with 103 lbs. Quick and dirty. My favorite kind of workout. New 3 rep max Push Jerk PR: 140 lbs.

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• August 21, 2009

Delirium Tremens

CrossFit Asheville does the Hero WOD “D.T.,” again. I use 105#. This is up from 95# in April. I am making my way slowly towards the Rx’d 155#.

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• June 6, 2009

Shoulders. PUC Postponed.

Decent sleep, from about 11:30 pm to 7:00 am. I tried to get more but had problems, and Lena woke up. Waking up, I felt good today. Clearly my troubles yesterday were linked to too few hours of sleep. Breakfast of about 2 blocks protein, 1.5 blocks carbohydrate, 4 blocks fat. Last night and this [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• May 8, 2009

Push Jerk. Mile Run. PUC Day 7.

Decent sleep last night, but only about 5 hours, and it was interrupted.  Better than the night before!  One block breakfast & coffee, then Warm Up Football-style agility drills, followed by 1 round of Push-ups, Sit-ups, Pull-ups, Squats, 12 reps each, then shoulder openers, hip mobility stretches. Then WOD: Push Jerk and One Mile Run [...]

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