Most athletes striving to optimize their nutrition add protein supplements to their diet for reasons of: convenience (and easy preparation), lower cost (relative to meat and fish products), avoid the concurrent consumption of carbohydrates and fats (to minimize adding calories while meeting protein needs), to avoid meat consumption. (See our previous article about nutrition.) Due […]
Author Archives: Beatrix Kenesei
Nutrition Simplified for Athletes
In the publication of “What is Fitness?” CrossFit suggested a theoretical hierarchy for the development of an athlete. This hierarchy starts with nutrition and moves to metabolic conditioning, gymnastics, weightlifting, and finally, sport. “Nutrition is the foundation of the pyramid. The quality and constituent elements of an athlete’s diet influence metabolism and therefore the molecular […]
CrossFit Kids 02/09-02/15/2020
What an exciting week with our CrossFit kids! Welcome Tate and Finlee to the team, you both crushed your first CrossFit workouts! This week we focused on practicing existing skills and learning some new ones and discovered new fun warm up games. We took another spin at our obstacle course running skills, and this time […]
CrossFit Kids 1/26-2/1/2020
We had another exciting week with our CrossFit Kids! To let our crazies out we built and played on obstacle courses. We added more and more challenges, even a medicine ball to be carried along the course. On Tuesday we focused on weightlifting, learning how to front squat properly. The kids did an awesome job […]
CrossFit Kids 1/19-1/25/2020
Welcome to our weekly CrossFit Kids blog post! CrossFit Kids is a strength and conditioning program that is specifically designed for children to develop cardiovascular and respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, speed, coordination, agility, balance, accuracy and most importantly, a lifelong love of fitness. Just like every CrossFit program it is scalable, so every […]