You all made it through 7 weeks of Paleo Challengeness and came out healthier, happier (hopefully), and educated on the benefits of a healthy lifestyle through the choices we make on foods we eat.

I truly believe that the most important thing about any challenge like this is that it (hopefully) arms you with the knowledge about how this whole lifestyle works so you have it for the rest of your life. I am guilty as anyone on losing my focus here and there. I was on about an 18 month loss of focus not too long ago. There are things like weddings, vacations, holidays, family time, long weekends, whatever the excuse may be, that we tend to indulge more than we should. First of all, this is fine and encouraged every now and then. Secondly what is important isn’t avoiding times like this but how you right the ship. Knowing what you all now know about the benefits of Paleo and how it works you (again hopefully) will be able to stop the bleeding before it gets too bad the next time you have a special time that calls for pizza, beer, cake, more pizza, wine, cupcakes, peanut butter on cookies on ice cream, on cake, mixed with beer and wine.

All of the staff here at CrossFit Lando are proud of everyone who participated no matter what your outcome is. It is tough to really put yourself out to be judged through points on your lifestyle, and tougher to follow through on a commitment for this long. That being said we have to crown a winner. So here we go!

Third Place: Mike Rayner

Easy Rider

Mike and his fiancee Christine came into CF Lando with no idea what CrossFit was or what they were getting into. They almost instantly became a part of our community. Both have made unbelievable progress in their quest for better health and fitness. Mike went at it for this Paleo Challenge and did some amazing things. He had perfect points…that’s not a single cheat…and lost 11 pounds. He saw significant progress in all the benchmarks except his back squat. Great job Mike!

Second Place: Stacy Doyle

 Stacy is a long time member and also a member of the Perfect Point Club which is an unreal accomplishment. She was also a major contributor to the Paleo Challenge Facebook page with tons of recipes, advice, venting, and comedy. Stacy improved on all of her retests which is impressive in and of itself, but she was traveling both for testing and retesting and had to make them up at all sorts of odd times. This didn’t slow her down and we never heard an excuse she just did what she had to. She lost 7.5# on top of all of this. Great job Stacy!

AND THE WINNER IS!!!!

Alyssa Marino

Alyssa is another perfect pointer (seems like old news now). She did an unbelievable job in her retests, improving all of them, and highlighted by going from a DNF in the 100 burpees to under 10 minutes. She lost just about 10% bodyweight in the 7 weeks as well. This is an all around great job by Alyssa and she deserves HUGE congratulations.

That does it folks. Great job again. Paleo Challenge #3 will be coming at the end of 2014. Keep it together during the warm weather and remember, you know what to do if it all falls apart.

WEDNESDAY

Strength: High Bar Back Squat

10 sets of 3 reps, resting 1 minute between each set. Start and stay at about 65% 1rm

WOD: 3 Rounds
15 Box Jumps 24/20
20 Hang Power Clean 135/95
15 STOH 135/95

SkWAT Team: Sets of 2 pause squat, high bar position. Heaviest possible. Done after class.