The food you eat is essentially the gas you’re putting into your car (your body). If you fill it with crap gas, or even worse, go too long without filling it, your car is going to run like crap, or not at all. Now when you think about food, the primary goal is to fuel performance both in the gym, and in everyday life. If we look at CrossFit’s official nutrition stance: (Eat meats and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch, and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that support exercise but not body fat), we get a good sense of the priorities behind making nutritional changes in your life. First and foremost we’re looking to fuel performance. Aesthetics will follow, but aesthetics can’t be the primary motivation behind your nutritional decisions, because there are countless factors that play into what your inbody measurements say. When you eat to properly fuel performance, and do it consistently, you will look better and better at the beach as time goes on. CrossFit games athletes look so good because they perform at such a high level. They perform at such a high level because they’re fueling their bodies properly to support such high volumes of training. Now the fact of the matter is, 99.9% of crossfit affiliate members don’t train at a volume even close to that of a crossfit games athlete, so we shouldn’t use their specific food choices as inspirations for our own nutrition, as they frequently consume large amounts of highly processed carbs (gummy bears, gatorade, etc.) to restore their muscle glycogen stores and energy between high intensity training pieces. Our goal is to improve performance in the gym, and in life. When we can re-shift our mind to that perspective, creating a nutrition plan to support it becomes easier and easier. So lets do it!
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