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Category Archives: Exercise
Heavy lifting how-to’s!
When I speak with people the conversation will invariably turn to nutrition, exercise, or fitness in general at some point, if even just for a few minutes. Things start out very innocently, “Hi, I’m Matt, what do you do, Darin?”, … Continue reading
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Tagged asheville, coach, exercise, fat loss, gym, health, north carolina, personal trainer, weight loss, weightlifting, wellness, wnc
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Making Your Cardio Work
You will find people (and trainers, and magazine articles) tell you all the time about how you can lose weight without spending endless hours on the treadmill, elliptical, or stationary bike by doing metabolic training or high-intensity intervals. While this … Continue reading
Tire Flip Recap!
While it seems like it’s been forever since our Tire Flip fundraiser on Saturday, I’m only now getting around to summing it up in words. It’s been that kind of week around here. Busy busy busy! All told it was … Continue reading
Posted in Asheville, Exercise, Motivation
Tagged charity, fundraiser, st jude, tire flip
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Tire Flip Training III – The Return!
Today’s weather in Asheville? Wet. Ideal for tire flipping? No. Should I do it anyway? You bet. Am I? No. The weather combined with a weird schedule for the day makes the cross-town trip impractical, so I’m improvising. Keith (the … Continue reading
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Tire Flip Training II – Recap
Yesterday I returned to the Riverside Drive gym to get in a little more flipping practice for the 22nd. On Wednesday if you recall I went 1 minute on, 1 minute off for 5 minutes and totaled 116 flips. Friday … Continue reading
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Tagged cardio training, charity, fund raiser, interval training, strength workout, tire flip
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Tire Flip Training – Part I
The principle of specificity states that if you want to get better at something, do that thing. Not something similar, just that thing. Want to jump higher? Practice jumping. Do strength training separately to get your legs stronger, then practice … Continue reading
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Tagged conditioning, exercise, interval training, strength training, workout
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A Few of My Favorite Things
I get asked for recommendations on products pretty regularly. In general, I agree with the philosophy that the only things you need to be successful on your health and fitness journey are an ability to work hard, consistency, and good … Continue reading
Posted in Exercise, Nutrition, Resource
Tagged exercise, muscle gain, products, protein powder, supplements, weight loss, workout
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Flippin’ Out
That’s exactly what I’m doing. As of the time of this writing, I have 17 days to prepare for our annual Tire Flip competition to benefit St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. The goal is to flip the tire as many times … Continue reading
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Tagged cardio workout, charity, exercise, fund raiser, interval program, tire flip
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Pullups: Worst. Exercise. Ever?
Earlier this month we had an awesome family vacation, which gives everyone the chance to catch up with everyone else. Our nephew Ben is in the Air Force, stationed in South Dakota. We eventually started talking about working out, and … Continue reading
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Tagged back, bodybuilding, exercie, fitness, posture, pull up, pullup, strength, strength training, workout
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Free Asheville bootcamp!
O3 Health and Fitness has been holding a free Saturday bootcamp at 8:30am for years. We opened our new gym on Sweeten Creek road in January and held a bootcamp in association with Manna foodbank on Saturdays in March, but … Continue reading
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Few decisions can be filed under “best decision ever”, and working with Darin Starr is one of those decisions. From day one he makes it very clear that whatever you need and whatever questions you have, that he is in … Continue reading