Crossfit Kinnick will be hosting the BATTLE OF THE BOXES on Saturday, December 3rd @ Crossfit Kinnick in Upland. This is a Team Competition where the teams will be competing for prizes for their gyms. Registration opens today at 11am! (Click the image below to go to the competition site and register your team).
- Teams: 2 men & 2 women
- Divisions: Advanced, Intermediate, and Masters (45+).
- Price: $200 per team, with no cap on the amount of teams per affiliate.
- Spectators: $5 a person, pre-sale online. There will be limited space available for ez-ups, so show up early!
- Prizes:
- Advanced Winner: Rogue Yoke
- Intermediate Winner: Prowler
- Masters Winner: Ice Bath
- Workouts: 3 workouts per team. The Movements and Standards will be announced on Nov. 12th at 11am. Workouts will be announced on Nov 26th at 11am.
- Food: There will be an on-site BBQ company to provide you with your nutritional needs.
dan lau 
Thanks for sharing my article- I’m glad you liked it. One note…
“As always, you need to pay attention to having zone balanced meals”
I think that statement is a bit off… different people thrive on different macronutrient ratios. If I ate a Zone diet, I’d be starving all the time. I have done it. It’s a low-fat diet and does not feel good for everyone. Be careful of broadly generalized statements about how much of each kind of food every person should eat to be healthy, feel great and perform well!
Diane,
At our gym we teach food measurement via zone blocks, but not necessarily a 40-30-30 macronutrient breakdown. That’s just the zone starting point, but in many places Dr. Sears talks about tweaking it for different people for different reasons. He talks about “athletes” needing up to 5x the base prescription for fat. Each of our clients has their own personal ratios depending on a variety of factors. Many of our clients eat 3-5x the base fat, and many eat less than the base carbs. It all depends on their performance and how they feel.
The important point for us is that they know what they are eating, and how much. That way we can watch their performance, and how they are feeling, and tweak accordingly. It becomes very hard to know what tweaks they need if we don’t know what they are eating and how much.
Although I agree that most people will see positive results from merely removing non-paleo foods from their diet, that will only get them so far. We want to have the ability to tweak their diet for optimum results. Without measuring, or a least paying some attention to quantities, it’s very hard to figure out where they need to go to improve.
Thanks for your thoughts!
Yep… I think it’s just funny that the Zone originally had a prescriptive set of ratios and then there’s also tweaking… that seems to negate the entire prescription to me. I think it’s smart to get people started and see how they feel and perform to tweak it– good plan. And yes, I agree that TONS of people have no concept of how much they’re actually eating or even under eating so weighing and measuring has a place for the newbies!
Rock on- feel free to share posts of mine anytime.
D