Welcoming Spring at the StrengthBox
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who came out over the Easter long weekend to the StrengthBox Open House. It was great to see some good friends, meet some new ones, and get a chance to socialize in the gym over some paleo snacks and organic wine!
Our door-prize winners were as follows:
- One-Month Unlimited Training: Maria Zongos
- StrengthBox T-Shirt: Donna Vanderpluijm
- Smoked turkey pepperettes (Fresh From the Farm) – Thomas Mirkovich
- Organic cacao chocolate bunny (ChocoSol Traders)- Mary Athanasopoulos
Toula claimed the bunny for her sister
Catching up
We also took the opportunity to announce a six-week EAT REAL Challenge, which will get underway next Saturday (April 10th). If you didn’t get a chance to sign-up in person at the opening, you can do so this week by adding your name to the sign-up sheet located on our cork bulletin board in the gym. Participants will not only show some REAL results; they will also get a chance to win a month of unlimited training at StrengthBox.
The basic rules are simple: you show up on April 10th for an introduction to the basics of paleo eating, complete a benchmark workout, and receive a Getting Started Kit. Over the next six weeks, you will eat meat, fish, eggs, vegetables, nuts, seeds and some fruit – while avoiding grains, legumes, dairy, salt, sugar and processed foods. You will also train at least 3x per weeks, logging your meals, workouts and sleep patterns. On May 22nd, you’ll come in to repeat the benchmark workout, find out who has made the most improvement, and celebrate 6 weeks of clean eating!
So what’s the deal with the paleo diet? Many nutrition scientists believe that it is a way of eating for optimum health, as the diet most closely mimics the way our Paleolithic ancestors ate. Over a two-million year period, our genes adapted to a diet in which all food had to be hunted, fished, or gathered from nature. Though the natural environment has changed drastically, the humane genome has changed less than 0.02 percent in the past 40,000 years. Thus, most of us eat a diet that is not in synch with their genetic needs, and sooner or later end up with with health conditions that would have otherwise been preventable.*
Paleo snacks and organic wine
Eating should be a social occasion
Part of the key to sticking to a paleo diet is having both a strategy for eating, and a good support system. Doing the EAT REAL challenge will provide you with both. Why not take advantage and “spring clean” your eating with StrengthBox?
For more pictures of the Open House, see http://www.flickr.com/photos/strengthbox/sets/72157623764148940/
* See: robbwolf.com; marksdailyapple.com; thepaleodiet.com
Tags: Eat Real Challenge, Nutrition, Open House, paleo, Paleo diet, StrengthBox