I am very excited to share the below interview I did with Teddy Kim. He is the owner and coach at the CrossFit gym that Pete and I belong to in Uptown and has a new gym CrossFit 612 in North East. If you haven't tried CrossFit and live in the Twin Cities I would suggest scheduling an into session with Teddy at either gym. I have trained with him and can say first hand that there is no one more motivating and inspirational to work with!! I was struggling with working out constantly but never losing those last 5 pounds until I meet Teddy and joined TTC. More importantly than losing weight I learned how to eat to be healthy and feel happier! TTC provides an atmosphere were everyone cares about each others health and fitness goals and supports you as you try to reach those goals. Besides being an amazing CrossFit trainer Teddy has great knowledge about Paleo. Below he talks about how Paleo transformed his life and how he uses that first hand experience to help others. You can visit www.twintowncrossfit.com for more info on the gym.
1. Please tell the readers a little bit about your background and
when you went Paleo.
For the first 17 years of my life I grew up eating a traditionalwhen you went Paleo.
Korean diet for the most part. My family ate lots of rice, vegetables,
and seafood. I always had a sweet tooth though and when I went to
college I really went off the rails. I hadn't developed good eating
habits and I didn't understand nutrition so I overloaded on starchy
foods and got really fat and sick. When I finally decided to make a
change, I was very frustrated at first because I tried to get healthy
through low-fat caloric deprivation diets. But I just got fatter and
sicker. When I discovered Paleo I was at a low point and ready to try
anything. A lot of the ideas behind Paleo were the opposite of what
everyone else was saying. Soy is bad for you? How can that be? I'd
been choking down soy burgers and wishing they were meat burgers for
years. All of that self-deprivation for nothing!
2. What do you find are biggest mistakes your clients make when
beginning Paleo.
the foods you ate before. Almond flour is okay as a thickening agent
and for an occasional treat but "paleo pancakes" and muffins shouldn't
be the staple of your diet because every time you eat a muffin you're
missing an opportunity to eat a vegetable. The nutritional profile of
unprocessed, local, organic vegetables can never be matched by any
form of gluten free or paleo pastry.
And that goes to the second biggest problem which is that people don't
eat enough produce. The compounds in vegetables that fight cancer and
other forms of disease operate in a dose-dependent manner, so the more
you eat the better. This is the opposite of the Zone diet which
emphasizes quantity and proportion. Eating to satiety is an attractive
piece of the paleo lifestyle but it can go wrong quickly. If you
mostly eat vegetables, then it's almost impossible to eat too much.
However, if you mostly eat almond flour muffins then you can eat too
much rather easily.
3. What do you think the biggest misconceptions about CrossFit are?
Well there is a rift in CrossFit right now. If all you know about
CrossFit is what you see from watching the Games on ESPN then you
probably think CrossFit is about elite athletics for the six-pack
crowd. A lot of affiliates as well as HQ seem to be cultivating this
image. What is lost in the marketing hype is that health and
athleticism are tightly overlapping constructs. Yes, we want you to be
able to pick up heavy things and run fast and traverse obstacles, but
those things aren't valuable for their own sake. They're valuable as
indicia of functional capacity and therefore, by our way of thinking,
of health. In other words, the metric that should matter is length and
quality of life, but those things aren't celebrated as much as they
should be.
4. What are your go to meals for keeping energy up for your
busy/active lifestyle?
hour is start gnawing on a steak. So I mix up a smoothie with a bunch
of frozen berries and coconut milk. This is also what I eat if I want
something sweet in the middle of the afternoon. The berries are a good
way to elevate blood sugar and regulate energy. Berries are low
glycemic load and contain nutrition, unlike say, a banana which is a
marginal fruit choice.
5. What inspired you to open your second gym Crossfit 612?
health solution. When you see your stock-in-trade as health, as
opposed to elite athletics, it clarifies how you think about business.
At TwinTown CrossFit many of our clients have experienced health
transformations that are quite profound. I find that inspiring, and I
want everyone to have access to it.
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