Nutrition

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Fitness begins with Nutrition. It’s the foundation which everything else builds upon.

It’s a common misconception that you need to exercise to lose weight, and if you exercise enough, it doesn’t matter what you eat, with maybe a caveat that if you want muscles you need a little protein.

This is as backwards as the USDA Food Pyramid.

Eating right leads to good health and normalized weight. Adding exercise (especially constantly varied high intensity functional exercise) on top of a sound diet, leads to exceptional health, far less incidence of disease and illness, and improved functionality and lifestyle.

In the CrossFit community, there is a general interest and emphasis on diet as a foundation. Athletes who maintain a healthy diet tend to skyrocket in performance.  Those who don’t often reach plateaus or even regress in progress, and have increased incidents of injury and difficulty recovering.

With that said, there are many ways to go about it. Diet is often a personal issue, sometimes a political one, and there’s much confusion, opposing ideas and misinformation out there.

Here, we promote a focus on what’s often known as “the Paleo Diet”. It’s our contention that this diet, or something very similar to it, is not a “diet” at all, but a way of eating that matches how human beings are genetically built to live, tracing back to our paleolithic ancestors.

Eating Paleo can get most people lean, fit, and healthy, without struggling with hunger, binges, and the typical “fad diet” “see-saw”. There are additional ways to tweak the diet for that extra edge, or for people who have difficulty implementing it into their busy lifestyle. Since Paleo is focused on food quality rather than quantity like many diets, it can also be integrated into other plans. We can help customize a program that meets your needs.

Each person has to find what works for them, but we do believe nutritional advice is a core part of our service. If your diet is a personal issue and you don’t want us involved, let us know, but you’ll likely be exposed to a lot of discussion about it around the gym. Also, if we believe your nutrition is putting you at a health risk, we may limit or scale your workouts.

Our startup program includes a Nutrition orientation, and we offer one on one counseling. There also will be free links and articles provided on this site for those inclined to do some reading on their own.