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What Does Dan Do? Part III
“Helen”
3 Rounds for time
Run 400m
21 Kettlebell Swings, 1.5 pood
12 Pull-ups
So I preach about nutrition a lot but what do I actually eat? I actually put a lot (some would say too much) thought into my nutrition plan. I have a base strategy for determining how much and what I eat and have a process for adjusting the quantities to match my planned activity level for the day.
I base my nutrition plan on Zone proportions with a menu of Paleo foods, adjusted for a highly active, regular CrossFit athlete per Robb Wolf’s prescription. Lets define some terms before we get too far into the details.
The Zone prescribes that calories from carbohydrates, fat and protein make up 40%, 30% and 30%, respectively, of you intake at each meal or snack. The Zone is about food quantity.
The Paleo diet eliminates food products and focuses on “real” foods. These are naturally occurring foods as opposed to processed or manmade.
Zone Adjustments, or the Athlete Zone, is a strategy for tweaking the Zone proportions to fit a highly active persons energy needs.
Think about that and next we will look at my Zone basis…
A little motivation for you…
