We believe nutrition is the foundation of any good fitness program, and the gateway to good health.
Improvements in everything from athletic performance to injury rehabilitation to body composition can be best realized through good nutrition. In other words, you can train hard, sleep well, practice active recovery techniques and eliminate stress, but if you’re not incorporating good nutritional practices into your daily life, you will always fall short of your health and fitness potential.
You’ve come here to change your body, change your outlook, change your life.
You’re willing to work hard, to challenge yourself mentally and physically, because you are ready to make those changes. But what you do here in the gym is only a small part of the picture. It’s what you do outside of the gym – the other 23 hours a day – that will make the biggest difference. You have the capacity to undermine all of the potential benefits of your exercise program by making poor food choices. On the other hand, if you work hard in here, and work hard out there by consistently making healthy food choices, you will increase your rate of improvement exponentially.
Good nutritional practices, combined with a well-designed high intensity exercise program like CrossFit, means you’ll start to see measurable, meaningful results within the first 30 days. But you can’t hold us to that unless you do your part. We know the food you put in your mouth plays a critical role in achieving your goals – at least as large a role as the training you’ll do with us. And we think it’s important enough that we’ve asked Whole9 to design this Nutrition Implementation Guide for our athletes.
Our belief is that a good nutritional program should be centered around eating real food.
We know that fad diets, crash diets, miracle pills and “meal replacements” are not part of a balanced, sustainable path towards improved health and fitness. Instead, we encourage you to eat high quality meat, fish and eggs, plenty of fresh vegetables and fruits, and healthy sources of dietary fats. You don’t have to count calories, and you don’t have to weigh or measure - in fact, that’s actually discouraged. You won’t find any built-in points or penalties, either - no arbitrary systems that disconnect the food choices you make from their actual physical consequences. You just eat good food, put your meals together in a way that is simple, balanced and (most importantly) sustainable, and experience all of the real, tangible benefits that come from a nutritional plan designed to optimize your metabolism, reduce systemic inflammation and have you looking, feeling and performing your best.'
We know this probably looks a whole lot different than what you’re currently eating, and perhaps even what you’ve been told you should eat. But CrossFit is different than any exercise plan you’ve ever tried – and you’re here because you believe our methods are the best way to optimal health and fitness.
As you trust us with your physical fitness and training, we also ask that you trust us with your nutrition.
Because of how critical your nutrition is to your health and performance, we have partnered with the Whole9 organization to bring you the very best in nutrition coaching, information, and accountability. They use cutting edge research (you), combined with a thorough knowledge and extensive experience to give you an extremely basic what to eat and not to eat plan.
All of your coaches have put their advice to the test and have been amazed with the results. Not only have we seen drastic improvements in body composition and health, but we have seen incredible testimony after testimony come out of athletes willing to put in the effort and do a Whole30.