Zone on the Rocks: Fueling Performance

Is it strange that I know exactly how many grams of protein, carbohydrate, and fat I'm eating at every meal and snack?

It was at one time.

Now, even when I'm not actually weighing and measuring my intake, I know how much of each macronutrient I'm putting into my body. It's second nature now. It required only two weeks of strict measuring before I had the clear understanding of exactly what to do to increase athletic performance with the food I was already eating.

The realization that I needed to fuel my body differently began on a stationary bike. Spinning away, getting warm for the day's workout, I heard Coach over the drone of the bike, "We can keep working out like this, Robbie, and we'll achieve some results, but it will take us only so far."

Iwas intrigued. Three weeks earlier I was more debilitated from a twenty-minute workout than I had been from climbing twenty-one hours straight on the two largest cliffs in North America: the Nose route on El Capitan and the Regular Northwest route on Half Dome. As long as I was doing this CrossFit thing I was interested in going all the way, and willing to make the changes required for total success.