Their Secret: Workout Hard, and Eat Like a Caveman

22 Mar

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From the Denver Post:

Fat. Sedentary. In love with fried cheese.

That’s how Blakely Graham, 36, described herself before she started an intense exercise regimen and tapped her inner cave woman.

Now, she’s trim and athletic. She still bats her eyes at deep-fried dairy, but finds the strength to reject the stuff.

In September, Graham, a Boulder marketing executive, joined a gym called CrossFit Roots, one of more than 1,700 CrossFit gyms around the world. The program emphasizes intense, simple workouts in bare-bones gyms, where people perform squats, throw heavy balls against walls, perform countless pull-ups and push-ups, and nearly (or do) collapse by the end of the workouts. The workouts first were popular with police academies, military units, martial artists and firefighters but have spread to fitness enthusiasts in general.

Shortly after joining the gym, Graham, like a lot of CrossFitters, also began eating “paleo” (short for paleolithic), an approach to diet that in some regards mirrors CrossFit’s minimalist, no-nonsense training ethic: the diet eliminates dairy products, legumes, all grains, refined sugar and most salt. It is a diet, in other words, similar to what people ate during the Stone Age.

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