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2011 Boston Skillshare

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Paleo/Cross Fit Revolution: How I learned to stop worrying and love animal fat/high intensity workouts

We will introduce the idea of eating a diet that early humans ate meat, vegetables, fruit, nuts and some seeds. Removing all processed foods, grains, sugar, legumes and other franklin foods.

Also the value of adding short varied high intensity work outs to your weekly routine.

details

when: sunday, april 17th, 2011, from 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
to attend: Please see the info page for more information on attending any of the workshops at the 2011 Boston Skillshare.
facilitated by: Ted Bowman and Rebecca Meritz

lesson plan

Introductions: 10 minutes
Overview of paleo diet benefits: 15 minutes
Outline and addressing of common questions regarding a paleo diet: 40 minutes
Individual questions / problem solving: 20 minutes
Wrap-up/check-out: 10 minutes

facilitator experience

Ted has lost over 80 pounds through CrossFit and the paleo diet over the past 9 months.

Rebecca has 5 years experience with CrossFit.

intended audience

People who are interested in becoming healthier and live better through diet / exercise.

other resources suggested by the facilitator

Things to read before the workshop: (Optional)

How to get started: http://www.paleonu.com/get-started/

Motivation to get started: http://paleohacks.com/questions/7058/share-your-paleo-before-and-after/16340#16340

Diet:

Marksdailyapple.com - Lots of great ideas on recipes/other topics and stories about people's success. (note that he has an offshoot of paleo called primal where he is ok with eating diary)

paleohacks.com - a great community of people who have answered/will answer most questions about the paleo lifestyle.

http://paleonu.com/ - The science behind Paleo and great advice about how it all works.

Exercise:

http://www.crossfit.com/ - All of the work outs are posted on there for anyone to do.

Other links:

http://bostonlocalvores.org/blog http://whole9life.com/

For more Paleo hacks: http://paleohacks.com/questions/23259/how-to-persuade-someone-to-give-paleo-a-chance#ixzz1Gbht6IcU