Finely tuned, a good diet will increase energy, sense of well-being and acumen, while simultaneously cleansing fat and packing on muscle. When properly composed, the right diet can nudge every important quantifiable marker for health in the right direction.
Diet is critical to optimizing human function and our clinical experience leads us to believe that Barry Sears’ “Zone Diet” closely models optimal nutrition. CrossFit’s best performers are Zone eaters. When our second tier athletes commit to “strict” adherence to the Zone parameters they generally become top tier performers quickly. It seems that the Zone diet accelerates and amplifies the effects of the CrossFit regimen.
Read the complete article here which includes the explination of the zone diet, blocks, a block chart, meal plans and more.
(Courtesy of CrossFit Inc.)
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