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Another Successful CrossFit Challenge
Mar 7th
At the starting line for the I Am CrossFit EPOC Challenge finale
The “I Am CrossFit E.P.O.C. Challenge” ended on Saturday morning with a final benchmark workout. It has been a very successful eight weeks for me. The final results will show me losing 12 pounds, 4% body fat, and 8.5 inches net (modest 1.25 inches gained in the thighs — that’s OK). Another measure of success: I bought size 30 jeans today for the first time in more than 20 years.
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One Week to Go
Feb 28th
Group photo after this weekend's CrossFit Kettlebell community WOD
There’s one week to go until the “I Am CrossFit EPOC” Challenge finale. Since the first week of January, more than 100 members of CrossFit Central have been taking on extra workouts, logging food and supplements, and getting results. I’ve been on a strict paleo diet and have found it much easier to adopt than I expected.
Most people I’ve talked to about paleo can’t believe I am declining to eat dairy, grains, processed foods, starches, and sugars, as these are the bulk of a typical American diet. “That doesn’t leave you much to eat,” they typically say. Well, here’s the list of foods I have eaten during the last 7+ weeks:
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Halfway Through EPOC Challenge
Feb 11th
Running 400m on a cold January morning to kick off the I Am CrossFit EPOC Challenge
The 100 CrossFit Central athletes taking on the “I Am CrossFit EPOC” Challenge are more than halfway through eight weeks of expanded workouts, food logging, and, for me, a 100% strict paleo dietary regime. EPOC means excess post-exercise oxygen consumption, and most of the WODs (workouts of the day) we’ve been doing have emphasized short but intense sessions designed to boost oxygen consumption after exercise ends. I can attest that they wear me out!
This is my third CrossFit challenge (2009′s Spartan 300 and I Am CrossFit), and I’m seeing some of the same results as with those prior efforts. As of Saturday, exactly halfway through the challenge, I’d dropped 6.2 pounds and 4.5% body fat (according to my scale), reversing my poor holiday season habits and putting me back on course for better fitness.
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