Nutrition

Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat.

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Doesn’t get much simpler than that.  Nutrition is the foundation of the CrossFit program.  If you want all that hard work you put in during the WOD’s to go to good use, you have to eat the right foods.

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Use the resources and information here as a starting point on your path to solid nutrition that promotes long term health and compliments CrossFit programming.

CrossFit HQ
CrossFit Nutrition Perscription
CrossFit Journal 21: The Zone
CrossFit Journal 15: Avoiding Metabolic Derangement

Paleo resources
The Paleo diet: Official site
Performance menu recipes
Wikipedia: Paleo Diet
Paleo Food Mall

The Zone resources
The Zone Diet: Official site
The Zone Diet Recipe page
Wikipedia: The Zone Diet
Zone block chart

Blogs
Robb Wolf
Modern Forager
Mark’s Daily Apple