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CFTally: Nutrition Program

Nutrition is the key foundation of fitness. Without proper nutrition you will blunt the effects of CrossFit, and with it you will accelerate your response to CrossFit.

Proper nutrition is eating what you need to sustain your life. It includes the macro-nutrients; carbohydrates, fats and proteins, and micro-nutrients like vitamins and minerals.

Reasons why we don't eat as we should (Not all inclusive)

If you are eating with family and friends then you probably feel peer pressure.
If you have issues with your weight then you probably have bad eating habits.
If you are hungry (and we all get hungry) then you are open to suggestion. Advertising works!

If you eat too much it's called gluttony and too little is called starvation. Anybody you know starving?

CFTally: Proper Nutrition

Knowing what is proper nutrition for you is about self-discovery on one hand and understanding human nutrition on the other. That is we are all the same in most ways but in some ways quite different.

While we are all on slightly different paths we are all headed to the same end goal: eating what we need to support our body in the proper quantity while emphasizing the highest quality we can manage.

Ideally, you would eat intuitively both for quantity and quality.

Most people find this exceedingly difficult. Our goal is to get you on the road to achieving this goal, but we recognized that many will never achieve it. That's fine as it is an idealist goal, but striving for it is useful as it gives focus and sharpens our sense of responsibility.

Getting from where you are to where you want to go!

Zone Diet with food you already eat:
1. Using the zone diet means you will get the quantity of food correct.
2. Eating foods you already eat makes it more likely you will comply.
Zone Diet with Paleo Foods
1. The Paleo diet is a pre-agriculture diet that emphasizes foods which the human body is most adapted.
2. You begin replacing the lowest quality foods you have been eating with higher quality paleo foods.
Paleo Diet
1. Once you have lived with the zone proportions for an extended time then you will have a solid (and hopefully intuitive) understanding of the quantity of food you require. With this understanding you can then eat the paleo diet without fear of under or overeating.
2. The goal is intuitively eating paleo foods in the proper quantity.

CF Tally: Nutrition Seminar

At CF Tally, we plan your workout and monitor your performance, both of which enable you to improve your fitness.

But we cannot do this for your diet. We intend this seminar to provide you with the information and skills necessary for you to do the same with your diet.

What you will learn?

An explanation of how to implement the Zone Diet.
Your Zone block prescription.
Help planning zone meals and snacks.
Help constructing a grocery shopping list for your zone meals and snacks.
An explanation of the Paleo diet.

Seminar Details

Fee: $15 for members, $20 for non-members. Payable in advance.
When: Sunday, February 5th at 1:00 PM
Email to sign-up. Space is limited.

Nutrition Challenge!

For this challenge we've decided to set up a way for you to compete since we know you all respond to competition! Here's how it will work:

There will be two teams, one paleo and one following the zone diet. Each team will have have a facebook group to post pictures, chat and motivate each other, but wait! We will also give points out for various activities. These points will be your "compliance" measure and be the determining factor on which team wins bragging rights.

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Sunday

Dec052010

Protein in your sports drink?

Sunday, December 5, 2010 at 2:11PM

As many of you know I think the need for sports drinks is mostly manufactured in order to sell these products. In this article I have some ammunition for my argument. The article is about whether adding protein is worthwhile in a sports drink. To net it out for you adding protein does not seem to help and the experts have a hard time understanding how it theoretically even could help.

Notice that in the studies they mention the only benefit to drinking these drinks was in long duration events. Their study had cyclist ride for two hours as a warm-up for a one-hour time trial! Now I'm not a cycling coach but it takes two hours to warm-up? That just doesn't pass the reasonable person or ah coach test.

It seems likely that this long warm-up was added in order to enhance the effect of the carbohydrate-heavy sports drink. This in addition to the small number of test subjects makes the whole conclusion suspect. More science needed but please make it real science not science for the sake of selling!

Needless to say but our CrossFit workouts are never long enough to warrant a carbohydrate (with or without protein) drink. Now if your even is 3 plus hours go for it!

Greg Keeter |