Nutrition
CrossFit Scottsdale Nutrition
So What Do I Eat?
Recipes
“Exercise is the King and Nutrition is the Queen and together they make a happy kingdom.” ~ Jack LaLanne
Elite Nutrition at CrossFit Scottsdale
However you look at it, in order to achieve health and fitness you have to eat right and train right. You cannot separate the two and expect to have elite fitness.
If we are training right and eating right you should see several things happen:
You…
1. Look Better
2. Feel Better
3. Perform Better (in all areas of life and of course CrossFit)
CrossFit Scottsdale fully integrates optimal nutrition with elite training because we believe that if you are doing one without the other you are only getting 50% of the results you could be. We are here to provide professional training and a school of elite fitness. Bottom line: RESULTS! 100%
The Nutrition Coaching you receive here is based on the CrossFit Dietary Prescription and uses the resources of the Zone and Paleo diets that have been shown to produce the greatest results.
“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.” -Greg Glassman
“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.”
Zone Resources:
CrossFit Journal 21 http://journal.crossfit.com/2004/05/zone-meal-plans-crossfit-journ.tpl
Robb Wolf- Zone Precision and Accuracy http://journal.crossfit.com/2009/05/zone-precision-and-accuracy.tpl
Paleo Diet Resources:
The Paleo Diet from www.thepaleodiet.com
The Paleo Diet is a way of eating in the modern age that best mimics diets of our hunter-gatherer ancestors – combinations of lean meats, seafood, vegetables, fruits, and nuts. By eating the foods that we are genetically adapted to eat, followers of the Paleo Diet are naturally lean, have acne-free skin, improved athletic performance, and are experiencing relief from numerous metabolic-related and autoimmune diseases.
So What Do I Eat?
NUTRITION SUMMARY- Courtesy Robb Wolf
All of the lean meat, fish, seafood, eggs you can eat
All of the non starchy vegetables you can eat
Plenty of fruit
Moderate healthy fats
Moderate nuts and seeds
No grains or cereals at all
No legumes
No dairy products (eggs are meat)
No processed foods – make it yourself!
No sugars. Agave, organic honey, molasses, pure spun golden sunshine….it doesn’t matter. They are all equally bad for you.
No artificial sweeteners. These are not food! Creepy laboratory products with sketchy safety records, artificial sweeteners have been shown to produce an insulin response.
Bottom line is we are trying to stay away from processed food, food that is difficult for our body to process like grains and dairy, and just eat real food to fuel our bodies.
Our standards are pretty high but so are our results. CrossFit Scottsdale’s CrossFit Nutrition Coach gives you a customized nutrition plan and recommendations to make the CrossFit Dietary Prescription YOUR prescription, YOUR Zone YOUR Paleo.
Nutrition is the foundation for everything else you do. If we can’t feed ourselves well, we cannot live well in any other area.
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