Tag Archives: low carb athletic performance

Low-Carbs and CrossFit

By Robb Wolf | December 7, 2009

I received an email from Nicholas Hahn last week in which he described his experience using a VERY low carb diet with a CrosFit template. His results are interesting and pretty impressive as he appears to run better on less than Zone levels of carb intake. Whooda-thunkt-it?
Some of the other benefits appear to be improved [...]

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The Zone and Athletic Performance

By Robb Wolf | August 12, 2009

Amidst yesterdays comments the question was asked “Where is the science for the Zone or paleo with regards to improving athletic performance?” as both a scientist and coach I would have normally told this person to go pound sand as my gym is full of people who are performing FAR better with a paleo diet [...]

Posted in CrossFit, Paleo/Low Carb, Zone Diet | Also tagged , | 62 Comments