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Description: *** DOUBLE DONATION MONTH: for every new student added this month, I will donate 2$ to the ASPCA. Your name may be submitted as the donator if you like! *** The diet and workout are nothing new, but have been growing in popularity hastily. While CrossFit first emerged on the West Coast in 2000, you can now find one in nearly every nearly every nieghborhood across the US. There are plenty of reasons why CrossFit and Paleo co-mingle so well, but the mainline is they both represent life hacks. Paleo appeals to the kind of guy who has “better things to do than count calories,” in the words of one of the major players, John Durant, author of The Paleo Manifesto. Instead, he can heap on a well-balanced meal of meat, veggies, carbs by way of roots and tubers, nuts, and burn fat without going hungry. At CrossFit, he can work out for an hour less, and fewer days a week, but because of the efficiency of the workout, burn much more and build more muscle than in the hours and days, heck, years, he spent lifting at a typical gym. They even hack the diet. Ask anybody who’s practicing Paleo how strict he is, and he will qualify in percentages, says Juri Henley-Cohn, a 36-year-old actor who works out at Williamsburg’s CrossFit Virtuosity. “I’m 100 percent Paleo 70 percent of the time. My wife got a chocolate chip cookie the other day, and I ate some of it. I drank beer over the weekend.” Even Mr. Durant modifies it: “I’m about 85 percent. I flex on dairy. I eat some white rice. I definitely drink too much.” He knows the struggle, though. When Mr. Durant emerged fresh out of college, he worked long hours at a consulting firm, which meant he was sitting all day, rarely exercising and eating take-out that the company ordered on most late nights at the office. He gained 20 pounds, and he was exhausted all the time. “Humans aren’t adapted to sitting at desks all day long, eating Twinkies and drinking Pepsi,” he writes in The Paleo Manifesto. In September 2006, he started the Paleo di
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