We aren’t afraid to say it right up front. Improving fitness, increasing energy levels, losing fat all requires a supportive lifestyle. A huge piece of this supportive lifestyle is eating well. Our perspective is simple: training hard while eating crap will not produce excellent health or superior fitness. Food is the most critical part of changing your life.
Our approach to eating is based on…food. Seems simple doesn’t it? The crazy thing is that the majority of what we all eat and what is for sale in the grocery store is not actually food. Food is the stuff that does not require an ingredients list. Food is the stuff that you can grow in a garden, harvest from the forest or field, catch out of the water, hunt, ranch or farm. Food that is best for humans are the things that we have been eating for thousands of years. We can look back in time and identify which foods nourished our ancestors who did not have central heating or a store around the corner. We can look at the research of medical anthropologists and see that peoples who ate more grains and starches had more disease and thinner bones. We can see that people who ate meat, fish, seeds, nuts, vegetables and wild fruits were the strongest and most robust. We can look at cutting edge research regarding the molecular structure of things we eat and how our digestive and immune systems are impacted by the structure. We can ponder phenomenon like the fact that our children are the first generation predicted to die before their parents due to Type II diabetes, a disease that is absolutely due to lifestyle, primarily a diet too high in simple, grain-based carbohydrates and a lack of activity.
At CrossFit Works we use an evolutionary approach to eating. With wise food choices we can create a “metabolic mileau” in our body that mimics the state our bodies would have experienced several thousand years ago. We can teach you how to choose foods, and prepare those foods so that they contribute to this evolutionary “metabolic mileau”. We also have the knowledge and experience to guide you in addressing the individual characteristics of your own metabolism that might require you to make specific, individualized choices to achieve your optimal health and performance. If you want to fine tune your body composition we can also help you measure and optimize your macronutrient ratios. If you have a chronic health issue that would benefit from dietary adjustments we can work with you on that too.
