Short Observation

I realized very quickly that the Paleo diet was more than a simple diet. It resembled a true way of life, a way of thinking, a way of eating the things that made people feel the very best they could. Trying to learn more about the diet, I followed Steger to a gym called CrossFit Blacksburg, a small, corner of a building gym with 5 pullup bars, 8 lifting bars, and old, rubber weight plates. It seemed as if the next logical step after Paleo was joining this gym. Or maybe joining the gym was the first step to going Paleo. Either way, the individuals in this gym (Chuck, a rubgy player, Marsha, a 60 some year old lady, and Garrett, an ROTC guy at Radford) all had something figured out. For an hour, they worked out in short spurts of as little as 3 minutes to up to 20 minutes, and on this particular day only did about 15 minutes of solid lifting, the rest of the time spent stretching, doing handstands, doing pullups, pushups, essentially jungle gym activities. A main part of their hour in the gym was the probably 10 minutes or so that they simply fired questions about nutrition to eachother, ranging from topics like fish oil, insulin response, and the lowest sugar fruits.