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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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Rest Days \• June 4, 2009

PUC Day 26

Still on a “rest day” as normally scheduled for Thursday (I work out, in theory, M, Tu, W, F, Sa, and rest on Th, Su) even though I took extra rest yesterday on Wednesday, and even skipped my Pull-Ups from my Pull-Up Challenge. I am still feeling a bit sore from the past few days, [...]

Workouts \• June 2, 2009

Stretching

I heard coach Randy complaining today that nobody stretches anymore. I think he’s right. Before this post, there has been very little mention of the word “Stretching” in this blog. Maybe one or two earlier posts. Sometimes we stretch after the WOD. Sometimes I stretch in the steamroom. Sometimes I stretch at home on my [...]

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