Ask yourself a few questions about your dietary habits:
1. Of what foods consist an average breakfast, lunch and dinner?
2. How often do you skip any of the above mentioned meals?
3. Do you often feel hungry or tired throughout the day?
4. Does your hunger lead you to eat less than optimal foods?
5. Are your meals planned and prepared in advance?
1. Of what foods consist an average breakfast, lunch and dinner?
2. How often do you skip any of the above mentioned meals?
3. Do you often feel hungry or tired throughout the day?
4. Does your hunger lead you to eat less than optimal foods?
5. Are your meals planned and prepared in advance?
Skill: Rowing, Rope Climb
WOD - Perform the following for time:
Row 800m
Rope Climb 1 Ascents
Row 600m
Rope Climb 2 Ascents
Row 400m
Rope Climb 3 Ascents
Row 200m
Rope Climb 4 Ascents
We live in a society which affords us the resources for optimal nutritional competence. On average though we fall well below our own potential as we tend to walk down the paths of least resistance. When eating out, it is so easy to order a chicken salad or a ham & swiss wrap, yet how often do we find ourselves ordering the big mac meal? Easier and cheaper yet is to prepare ourselves that chicken salad in advance and carry it with us through our daily routine.
Some basic considerations when thinking about nutrition:
Eat whole, unprocessed foods"If you can't pronounce something on the nutritional label it isn't food!" you can take it a step further and say "If it has a nutritional label at all it isn't food!" Find your local farmers market and purchase foods as often as possible from local growers, if nothing else at least you will know where it came from and will be supporting local economy!
Eat Meat, Vegetables, Nuts and Seeds, Some Fruit, Little Starch, and no Sugar!
These things in their unprocessed states are what we were designed to eat. Apples don't come from a juicer, meat doesn't come from a grinder and refined sugar is responsible for more health problems then PCBs & MSG.
Spread small balanced meals throughout the day. Eat when you aren't hungry!
Macronutrient timing works! Look at the cast of 300 who trained and thrived on a low calorie, paleo/zone diet administered by Mark Twight of Gym Jones.
Control your blood sugar!
Ask any diabetic about the importance of controlling insulin levels through blood sugar. To many it can mean the difference between life and death, and not surprisingly diet and lifestyle have the greatest impact on this. Type 2 diabetes is completely avoidable through proper diet and lifestyle choices!
Own Up! Clean it Up!
Realizing that you've been doing things wrong is the first step to doing things right! Clean up your habits and get rid of the junk from your lifestyle, dump the less than favorable contents of your kitchen and start anew!
Suck it up! Put down the whopper and try something different for a change!
"Survival will be neither to the strongest of the species, nor to the most intelligent, but to those most adaptable to change." - Charles Darwin
Check out these links for some nutritional information:
The Performance Menu
The Zone Diet
The Paleo Diet
Protein Power
In case you're wondering we have no affiliation to any of these information sources. It is simply our experience that these or a combination thereof prove to offer the best results in performance, wellness and longevity!
