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Start of the "Food as Fuel Blog"
Thursday, December 03, 2009Here is the new blog for nutrition! I wanted to create a place where we could all talk about the most important part of human performance and training, nutrition, otherwise known as food. This blog will not be updated daily with new post, but comments will be accepted daily. Here we will post recipes, concepts relating to Zone, Paleo or Maker's diets, and nutrition concepts to support performance training.
It is my goal that this blog will serve to help athletes achieve their fitness goals. For many athletes, understanding food and how powerful it can be in affecting performance and fitness metrics, is a mystery. Well, here is our stab at helping making eating healthy less of a mystery.
I heard Robb Wolfe at the Black Box Summit give a comment about Miko Salo, the male winner of the 2009 games. Miko was asked at the games what his diet comprised of and he stated that he ate lots of pasta. Well, if you follow the paleo diet, this would be prohibited. So, a participant of the Summit asked Rob if pasta is so bad, how could Miko make it part of his diet and do so well. Rob responded by saying, "if we think his performance is good now what could it be with the proper nutrition?"
The moral to the story is this, we don't know what aspect of human performance and better health we are leaving on the table until we eat properly. Where can your training and health go with the proper fuel? No different than any other machine or car. Food is our fuel!
Posted by: Darin Deaton
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Started eating right again now that the holiday is over and boy do I feel better! Had a smoothie with peaches, strawberries, banana, yogurt, OJ, and a protein powder and a hard boiled egg. Lunch will be a spinach salad with chicken, broccoli, garbanzo beans and a little dressing and some grapes. I have a salmon filet thawing for dinner....YUM!