Eating well is half of your sucess in this gym. If your training your tail off and not paying attention to what your fueling your body then you are really only half way involved. Fitness is really two parts. One part is training. That is putting stress on the body and in return the body adapting to those stressors and becoming stronger and fitter. The second part is recovery. This is really composed of both diet and sleep. Lack in either dept will put a serious damper on your success in the gym. Here we will address the issue of diet and our stance on what and how much you should be fueling with.

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The following is a list of the kind of carbohydrate foods we recommend to our Westlake CrossFit clients to help them reach their nutritional and body compositional goals:

• broccoli,
• green beans,
• yellow summer squash,
• kale,
• spinach,
• Brussels Sprouts,
• mustard greens,
• collard greens,
• cauliflower,
• cabbage,
• alfalfa sprouts,
• zucchini, lettuce (all varieties),
• eggplant,
• cucumber,
• celery,
• asparagus,
• snow peas

** These carbohydrate foods are very low in sugar and starch and are mostly water. You won’t get a “sugar high” from them**

I occasionally enjoy a baked or mashed potato eating half portion with real butter and full fat sour cream and chives but it certainly is higher carb than the above.