The CrossFit stimulus is comprised of two parts.
There are the constantly varied functional movements executed at high intensity your athletes do under your watchful eye. Then, there’s the nutrition part — eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch, and no sugar and keep intake to levels that support exercise but not body fat — which mostly takes place outside your supervision. It can be easy to focus on the workouts and let the nutrition piece slide. That is a path to blunted results.
In a recent discussion for CAP Education, the team had a chance to pick Nicole Christensen’s brain to learn how CrossFit Roots upped its game by developing a nutrition curriculum expressly designed to help its athletes consistently work on nutrition. Nicole provides a ton of practical information and ideas any affiliate or trainer can implement.
Nutrition: Implementing Quality and Quantity