The foundation of it all

For all the variety in CrossFit workouts, there's still a foundation of functional movements that we stick pretty close to. There’s always more we can do to refine and master these movements and to increase the power we can produce using them. And doing so always transfers over to improvement at other movements, sports, and energy pathways that we don’t even train directly. Handy, no?

The same can be said of our nutrition, which is necessarily the base for all the rest of it. You can try to tell yourself it's not that important (usually because you're devoted to your habits), but, actually, it is. When it comes to food, the fundamental cornerstones are protein, fat, and carbohydrate, and the challenge is to balance these building blocks (i.e., "macronutrients") in a way that supports high performance and output, maximizes health, and produces favorable body composition.


We can get more precise about it, but ultimately it comes down to these two sentences (written by Greg Glassman):

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.

Memorize the words, internalize the concepts, make a habit of the implementation.

Movement patterns take time to master, but you can always fix your nutrition as soon as your next meal comes around. It’s entirely up to you. It really boils down to making the commitment and seeking information and support. Our intent with this blog is to help provide that info & support.