ZONE DIET INFORMATION FOR CROSSFITTERS

There was a great discussion in the early a.m. class this morning about diet, nutrition, and weightloss.  The bottom line is that you have to eat right to lose weight, or to achieve your optimal weight.  It's work.  And like everything else you do in life, there's a cost you have to pay to achieve your weight goals.  If you're unwilling to sacrifice the bad food choices, then don't complain about not losing weight.

Here's and excerpt from CrossFit Journal 21 -

"Our recommendation to 'eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch, and no sugar' is adequate to the task of preventing the scourges of diet-induced disease, but more accurate and precise prescription is necessary to optimize physical performance.

"Finely tuned, a good diet will increase energy, sense of well being and acumen, while simultaneously flensing fat and packing on muscles. When properly composed the right diet can nudge every important quantifiable marker for health in the right direction.

"Diet is critical to optimizing human function and our clinical experience leads us to believe that Barry Sears' "Zone Diet" closely models optimal nutrition.

"CrossFit's best performers are Zone eaters. When our second tier athletes commit to 'strict' adherence to the Zone parameters, they generaly become top tier performers quickly. It seems that the Zone diet accelerates and amplifies the effects of the CrossFit regimen."

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