SubscribeNutrition:
Proper nutrition will be crucial to any exercise or weight loss/gain program. More importantly than that it is critical for living well and healthy. We do not advocate low fat or low carb diets. If it involves drinking maple syrup and cayenne pepper, or shots of B-12 and HCG you won’t find it here. I’ve come to terms with the fact that I’ll never get to be on the Today show telling people how to read food labels and to look for this or that…my speech is to short for TV. “If it comes with a food label you probably shouldn’t be eating it.”
We advocate for somewhere between The Zone Diet by Dr. Barry Sears and a Primal or Paleo type of nutrition. Much like the methodology of our exercise being based on natural body movements, The nutrition recommendations are based on the types and quantities of foods available to us in nature.
The basic CrossFit prescription for food is “Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruits, little starch, and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat. Finely tuned, a good diet will increase health, energy and sense of well being while reducing fat, packing on muscle and optimizing physical performance. Diet is critical to optimizing human function and CrossFit believes that Barry Sears’ “Zone Diet” closely models optimal nutrition. CrossFit’s best performers are on the Zone diet. The Zone diet accelerates and amplifies the effects of the CrossFit regimen.” Greg Glassman
Useful links for The Zone Diet are listed below:
http://www.zonediet.com
http://www.zonedietinfo.com
Useful Sites / Blogs for Paleo or Primal:
http://www.fitnessspotlight.com (Paleo)
http://www.thepaleodiet.com (Paleo)
http://www.marksdailyapple.com (Primal)
Video Resources:
Paleo in a Nutshell Part 1: Food
Zone Menu Planning:
Use the sheets below to plan meals according to your block prescription. As you satisfy a Protein requirement cross it off on the sheet and continue until all of the blocks are satisfied for that meal.
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