Nutrition

In order to perform at our best in CrossFit it is important to align our diet as well. This step has a greater impact on our performance than supplementation, although it is customary to reverse the relevance.

In fact, the Greg Glassmanthe founder of CrossFit, defined fitness, starting with nutrition, as follows:

Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake at levels that allow you to exercise but not get fat. Practice and train the major lifts: deadlift, clean, squat, press, C&J and snatch. Likewise, master the fundamentals of gymnastics: pull-ups, dips, lunges, rope climbs, push-ups, crunches, press-ups, pirouettes, cartwheels, splits and holds. Cycle, run, swim, row, etc., hard and fast. Five or six days a week, mix these elements in as many combinations and patterns as creativity allows. Routine is the enemy. Workouts should be short and intense. Learn and practice new sports regularly.

It is for this reason that the Paleo diet has always been closely linked to CrossFit. 

We can think of the Paleo diet as a lifestyle based on recovering our true diet as humans. That's a good definition, but in reality, if we only pay attention to our diet, we are forgetting many more factors that directly impact our health.

Paleo diet book and recipes

In 2017 I suffered a traffic accident that forced me to spend 4 months without being able to practice my favorite sport. For someone who was addicted to this sport, you can imagine the ordeal it was to go from training 6 days a week and sometimes two in one day, not being able to do anything.

However, I decided to create something, and that something was a book where the fundamental bases of the Paleo diet were collected. If you want to know more about what I explain in this book and the recipe book I leave you a link to both.

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