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 10, 2010

Program Review

A quick review of my “May 22nd Program” plan. Things are going fine.

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.

August 6, 2009

A Spiral of Cheating, and a New Plan

Looking back at the month of July and the first week of August, I discover that I’m in danger of losing my discipline. Time to do something about it!

August 3, 2009

A Week of (Ch)eating

On a rest day I take the time to notice that I can’t claim to be eating Paleo OR Zone these days. I’m flexible but I’m not that flexible.

March 31, 2009

My "Diet," Part II: One Month in the Zone

By MCB
In this post I am looking back at my first month of trying to stay in “the Zone” by eating a “Zone-favorable” diet. The day before I started on “the Zone” (March 1st), I weighed 208 lbs, and had 21% body fat.
As of March 1st, I was six weeks into a new journey [...]

March 13, 2009

Turkey Kofta (recipe)

I love kofta. They are the perfect leftover protein source. What is not to like about having a bunch of little mini meatloaves. I slice and serve them straight from the fridge for two or three consecutive days.

March 8, 2009

Revisiting “the Zone”

Explores my CrossFit inspired rediscovery of “the Zone” diet, 14 years after the original publication of Barry Sears’ 1995 book, Enter the Zone. In my own experience, the Zone-favorable diet is the best way to control your weight and promote your overall health and well-being.

March 7, 2009

My "Diet"

Maybe it was my desire to get over my cold. Maybe it was my desire to be more fit. To live forever, or, barring that, to keep moving until I die. Whatever was the reason, I found the strength to change my diet radically, and I have been actually having fun with [...]

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