FIRST POST!

I was inspired by Loren Winter, a close friend of mine for a long time, to join CrossFit. I've watched Loren dedicate and transform himself and take his level of fitness off the grid. I'm about two months in and I could not be more stoked that I took the plunge. I'm sore in ways and places I've never experienced before, each WOD is a killer and I've already noticed changes in so many aspects of my life. Including; a greater overall feeling of health and longevity, more energy and most of all, my level of fitness.

I started my journey at Kirkland CrossFit but have since moved back to the city and just joined at Level 4 - CrossFit Seattle.

So CrossFit was all Loren, but I mostly attribute my blog to Brad Sim. Who has also transformed himself into a CrossFit machine and keeps a great blog.

For me, this blog is a place to post results of workouts, keep track of records/PR's and my diet. As well as post recipes I enjoy and experiment with (the successful ones and the disasters). I recently, with my new found love for CrossFit, have also adopted the nutrition methodology that CrossFit recognizes. The way I eat comes from the "Zone" diet. As for what I eat, I stick to foods prescribed by the "Paleolithic" diet.

Here is a great article by the CrossFit Journal with a simpler explanation of the Zone and a chart to determine your block requirement. Along with examples of Zone meals and a pretty extensive food block chart.

Here is an article about how Paleo can be tweaked for athletes for optimum performance and/or recovery.

In conclusion, read the following description of world-class fitness as described by the founders of CrossFit, and you will get the idea.

"Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat. Practice and train major lifts: Dead lift, clean, squat, presses, clean and jerk, and snatch. Similarly, master the basics of gymnastics: pull-ups, dips, rope climb, push-ups, sit-ups, presses to handstand, pirouettes, flips, splits, and holds. Bike, run, swim, row, etc, hard and fast. Five or six days per week, mix these elements in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow. Routine is the enemy. Keep workouts short and intense. Regularly learn and play new sports."