Rest Day Zone/Paleo Nutrition Class (07.22.2009)

Rest Day Zone/Paleo Nutrition Class (07.22.2009)
We've dedicated this Rest Day to our athlete's with a desire to learn about the powerful role nutrition plays in our lives. Lately there has been a lot of chatter going on about the Zone and we figured it was time for another class covering nutrition plans.

The first time we held a little class like this it looked more like a cult than a learning environment for open minds to seek new ideas.

I think it's safe to say that this second generation nutrition class will be different in a pretty huge and exciting way: To those peering in at us from the outside it will look like a cult that has other people in it besides its lunatic founders. Victory.

Class Time: 6pm
Place: CrossFit New Hampshire is located at:

250 Commercial Street

Suite 1008

Manchester NH, 03103

There is also an interactive Google map with directions in our "Start Here/Contact Us" section, should you have trouble finding us.

Lecture Topics and Goals: We are going to open the night with an overview of the Paleo and Zone nutrtion plans, which tie together the majority of our lecture points. These specific nutrition plans have yielded an unparalelled track records of success in improving overall health and fitness, but you don't have to take our word for it.

Take the Pepsi challenge with this stuff as soon as you've soaked up enough of the basic information, with a two week trial being the gold standard.
We told the first nurition class something along the lines of:

Prep yourself for an entire two weeks of meals, lay it all out so you don't have to think about anything beyond putting tasties in your mouth... dedicate yourself to a short two weeks of Ben and Jerry's deprivation, then come back and tell us what you think.

As mentioned above we are planning on spending the majority of our lecture and open discussion time working with the information needed to take the Zone or Paleo meal plans and put them to immediate use. Providing that a solid understanding of each diet's unique characteristics has been covered, we will begin looking at some of the mechanisms and laws responsible for governing the environment inside the human body. Nutrition has a profound role in this, the ramifications of which are felt in areas such as performance, physical appearance, and longevity.

This kind of information isn't something that can be swallowed hole and digested in a single day (pun intended) and we would urge our CrossFitters to constantly seek out new information, formulate their own ideas, and hunt for better, more complete answers. Doing this can only make your path towards elite fitness an easier one to navigate in the long run.

The conceptual characteristics of the meal plans are not only important for their implementation, but are also foundational cornerstones that we hope our athlete's intend to build upon. After such a foundation has been laid it's as simple as dedicating yourself to becoming a perpetual student and letting your curiosity drive your hunger for more.
Laying out the actual nutritional regimens tends to be a dry topic but won't take very long to cover. Once that is explained and questions have been answered we will start working with the class to find individual Block Prescriptions/Paleo Menus.
This time around we've got enough of the tools and charts we need to lay everything out for each individual athlete. Jill even promised to help us add and subtract.

It was obvious that we should probably get some assistance with that after the Max effort deadlifts day left us with the impression we needed to install a giant abecus to accurately increase the loads on each set. Thinking of Frank putting big plates outside smaller plates does kinda make me feel better, though, his math isn't even from this planet.

Enjoy your CrossFit Holiday and we'll see everyone tomorrow night.

Misc. Notes:

Please bring some note taking material with you. You'll be seated in an isometric squat position during the class (without a desk) so it might be a good idea to bring a clipboard or something sturdy to write on.

It will be first come first serve for using bumpers as lap tables.