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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 \• May 27, 2011

fantastic active friday

6:00 am workout at CrossFit Asheville. More than three hours of hardcore lumberjacking. Then squats, with a new 1 RM PR (235) at Brian’s house. What a day!

Outdoor Recreation \• May 14, 2011

saturday snatches again

Actually Saturday was a great day, full of activity. Fun. Here’s a summary of it. Woke up, worked on shoulder and forearm mobility. Boxing/Karate shadow boxing. Hamstring flexibility. Shoulder work with 5 & 10 lb plates: high-pulls, rotations, presses, T3s, all x12-20. Push-Ups (10). Then: working out with my Jump Rope in the back yard, [...]

Strength Day \• May 13, 2011

friday folderol

Stayed up so late, being bad, on Thursday, that I missed my customary 6:00 am CFA workout. Instead I did several short workouts over the course of the day. Am warm-up: one mile run 80% RPE Hamstring flexibility/mobility Shoulder rotates Shadow boxing Later at the YMCA: 500 meter row (8 resistance, 26 spm, 1:56 time) [...]

Active Rest \• May 10, 2011

tuesday active rest

AM early: mobility work! on shoulder and forearms; shadow karate/boxing punches. Afternoon: 10 minutes of playing around with jumprope; pushups (10); weighted +5 pull ups (2); weighted +5 ring dip (1). Later: Watched two mobility WOD videos. Evening: hamstring stretches; foam rolling; wooden ball rolling on shoulder and arms; ring dips (2); squat mobility. Purpose [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• April 13, 2011

monday and wednesday workouts

Monday at CFA: Hang Snatch, C2B Pull-Ups, High Box Jumps, Wall Balls I was at the 6:00 am class at CFA on Monday April 11th, and, while I didn’t accomplish anything brilliant, didn’t do anything in the way of new PRs or anything, I did my best and had fun working on that most difficult [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• March 28, 2011

monday single support deadlifts and three amigos

I was in on Monday morning but the perennial left shoulder pain I’ve been experiencing was a limiting factor in both the Warm-Up (two reps of K2E and I was DONE) and in the WOD, and the strength portion was the dreaded single leg deadlift. Not my finest hour. Single Support Deadlifts and Ring Rows [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• March 25, 2011

friday lactate session: “Toxic”

I felt good about being at the 6:00 am WOD on Friday: 6 rounds of 90s max effort: 250m row, 10 x 72 lb. KB swings, max reps burpees. 4:30 rest between rounds. During rest periods we alternated between 5-6 reps of eccentric ring rows or ring dips. fastest row: maybe sub 0:44; slowest row: [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• March 4, 2011

deadlift at endurance tempo and rounds of rings and du’s

Friday morning dark and early I made my way, on poor sleep, to the 6:00 am class. Strength: Deadlift at Tempo Shanna explained that Friday’s deadlift workout, involving sets of 8 reps at tempo x240 (pull as fast as possible, pause for 2 seconds at top, lower over 4 seconds, do not pause at bottom) [...]

CrossFit Asheville WODS \• January 26, 2011

Wed: shoulders and dual amraps

Wednesday I made it to the 6:00 am class at CFA: Shoulder Press 5 x 8 and a dual amrap: 2 min amrap 5 deadlifts and 10 double unders, 1 min rest, 2 min amrap 5 ring dips 10 wall balls, 1 min rest, repeat for 3 rounds. I got my first ever consecutive double [...]

Strength Day \• December 15, 2010

Open Gym

Nearing the end of an 18 hour fast, I hit the CFA open gym time on Wednesday. Forget about adequate sleep, etc. This is finals. But training goes on. Warm-Up 500 meter row (17-19 strokes/min; 1:48-1:52 split). Bear Crawl / Crab Walk / Floor Work 5 rounds: 1 min max Double Unders, 30s rest Dislocates [...]

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