The Paleo Challenge

The real food pyramid!

CrossFit Los Gatos is excited to announce the start of the Paleo Challenge. The winner, voted on by the Challenge participants, is the person who shows the greatest gains in both body composition and performance.  Prizes include an outfit from lululemon athletica as well as 2 months free training at CFLG and 1/2 off Elements classes for a friend.

Paleo Challenge participants must eat Paleo and CrossFit regularly for 3 months.  In addition, they will be required to keep a food and training journal and write a testimonial at the end of the Challenge.  The Paleo Challenge will dramatically improve participants health, fitness and energy levels, and quality of life. CFLG's sister affiliate CrossFit West Santa Cruz recently held a Paleo Challenge of their own and the results were astounding.  You can read the participants' testimonials at the CF West blog.  It is pretty inspiring. 

The Paleo diet is the way humans are meant to eat.  It is the way we were evolved to eat.  Basically, if Paleolithic man didn't eat it, neither should you. This rules out grains, glutens, cereals, legumes, and processed sugars.  If it needs more than open flame to process, don't eat it.  Coupled with regular CrossFit, the Paleo diet will rapidly lean you out, increase energy levels, and your performance will skyrocket.  More info about the diet can be found here, here, and here.

Anyone who is interested should come to CFLG at 10 or 11AM this Saturday, the 10th, in order to sign up and complete the baseline workouts.  These workouts will be repeated in early January to assess progress. We will have a Paleo potluck afterwards.  Everyone is invited.  Chicken and burgers will be provided, so please bring a salad or something to share--Paleo of course.

Come give it a try, you will never regret it.  I hope to see everyone on Saturday.

Interested, or if you have any questions, please post to Comments.

Workout:

Deadlift 7x3

Then:

21, 15, 9

Thruster 105/65#

Kettlebell Swing 53/35#

Run 400m, 200m, 100m after each couplet.

You can choose to go heavier than the rx'd weight on one of the movements for a rep scheme of 12, 19, 6.

Comments

[Justin Moles]

By far the funnest workout I have done in a while...
Overhead Walk , 50ft - 95lbs
5 Squat Clean and Jerks - 95lbs
Walking Lunges with weight resting on your back - 95lbs
5 Squat Clean and Jerks - 95lbs
-It is a 12 Min AMRAP
I could only get 4 rounds. It is very light which is not the Crossfit Los Gatos Methodology but it caught me off guard.
Before that I did.. Thrusters 1-1-1-1-1-1-1 ... following the .com. Got my PR at 255lbs

[Greg L]

Justin, that's big weight. And yes, that could be deceptive. However, might you say that was the "most funnest" workout you've done?

[samrad]

Classic.

[Justin Moles]

Hahaha Thanks Greg. Def needed that. Thats why your a teacher! great workout Sat.