Burning Runner’s Advice For Would-Be CrossFitters
- By TJ Murphy
- Published Sep. 19, 2011
- Updated Feb. 19, 2013 at 8:50 AM UTC
Take The Nutrition Challenge
The Nutrition Challenge is a six-week competition that involves gaining or losing points based on how many CrossFit workouts you did in a week’s time, Zone meals, Paleo meals, Zone-Paleo, water consumption, hours of sleep and a few other categories.
If your CrossFit gym offers a “Nutrition Challenge”—do it. I’m doing my first, a Nutrition Challenge at CrossFit Elysium that started a month ago (with two weeks remaining). It started off with a 2-hour seminar where the coaches talked about the whys and how-tos of the Zone and Paleo diets, answering questions and such. The following Monday anyone who took up the Challenge began a six-week competition that involved gaining or losing points based on how many CrossFit workouts you did in a week’s time, Zone meals, Paleo meals, Zone-Paleo, water consumption, hours of sleep and a few other categories. I tried to do something like this myself a few months ago and it fell apart in a few days. Once again the CrossFit community and the power of accountability—and the fun of competition—makes an event like a six-week dietary overhaul a doable thing with exceptional educational value.
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TJ Murphy
T.J. Murphy is a 2:38 marathoner and five-time Ironman finisher. He is the former editorial director of Triathlete Magazine, Inside Triathlon and Competitor Magazine. His writing has also appeared in Outside Magazine and Runner’s World. He recently authored “Inside the Box: How Broke All The Rules, Stripped Down the Gym and Rebuilt My Broken Down Body.”