At CrossFit UpCountry Maui we believe that the food you put into your body is the most important step to achieving a healthy, fit lifestyle. With all the conflicting information out there, it is hard to determine exactly what eating right means. Here is the CrossFit prescription in a nutshell:
“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.”
Proper nutrition is at least 80% of getting healthy and fit. If you don’t plan on changing what you eat and think that just adding “cardio” is the answer, you’re wrong. You need to eat good quality food. If you simply follow what what is written above, you’ll look and feel much better. This is basically the Paleo Diet.
Most elite CrossFitters combine the Paleo Diet, which represents the quality of food you should be eating, with the Zone Diet which represents the quantity. People have a lot of success and amazing results with this combination. If you have trouble with the Zone and it seems too complicated just start with the Paleo Diet. Paleo simply means it’s food that isn’t processed in any way. It’s also called the caveman diet. Real food is grown on trees, planted and harvested from the earth, most likely had eyes, at one time was walking, swimming, or flying. Examples of this are fish, steak, chicken, spinach, tomatoes, apples, oranges, almonds, and cashews. The more you stick to these foods the better off you’re going to feel, recover, and look.
Check out these helpful sites:
The Paleo Diet
The Zone Diet
Robb Wolf
Mark’s Daily Apple
Fit4YouNutrition