The Open is Here! Woohooo! Not only is it #foodiefriday but it's the first day of the 2024 CrossFit Open! YES! The biggest and most fun time to be a CrossFitter has arrived! We are doing the Open workout in all of our classes today. Be ready to be judged and have a good time! Last Friday I shared the CrossFit Open Nutrition Guide. Today I'm sharing a recipe that works great for pre-, post-WOD or an easy lunch or dinner. Check out the video below for steak & cream cheese cabbage wraps.
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How to Eat for The CrossFit Open!The CrossFit Open is just 7 days away! The Open is a world-wide online CrossFit competition and it's SO.MUCH.FUN. We are doing an Intramural Open which means that EVERYONE in the gym is a team player. Have you selected your Intramural Open team yet? The Open is a competition and we often drive just a littler harder through the Open workouts. Your nutrition over the next 3 weeks will help you perform AND recover. I'm sharing a great, concise guide to eating well during The Open. You can read it below. Of course, you'll want a recipe to get you all ready to crush the Open. Click on the image below for a delicious recipe for caramel mocha protein shake courtesy of Working Against Gravity. You'll want to enjoy this shake as a pre or post workout source of important calories and vital macronutrients. Be sure to check out the Working Against Gravity Open Prep Guide that I shared on the blog yesterday!
Today's Femme Fatale has been around a long time, first appearing on the CrossFit main site on April 8, 2005. She is one of the few workouts named for a real life women. She is named for powerlifter Lynne Pitts. A competitive powerlifter in the late ’80s and early ’90s, Pitts discovered CrossFit in 2003. She started doing the workouts in her garage gym in New Hampshire and began posting her results on the CrossFit main site webpage. Back then only about five to 10 people posted each day. Two of her favorite movements were the bench press—she once had a double-body-weight bench press—and the pull-up. Here's how she describes the origin story of her workout: “It was wake up, hop on the computer and find the workout,” she said. “I was like, ‘Holy cow, it’s perfect!’” Pitts said. This workout is loved by many because it is not for time. As CrossFit has developed over the years it has become more common to move from bench press directly to pull-ups then rest as much as needed between rounds. This creates a different type of intensity and a whole different mind set. Watch this video for some tips and inspiration. What's for Dinner?One thing is nearly universally true for us all, we need to eat MORE vegetables. Fruits and vegetables are a key component of a healthy diet and we don't eat nearly enough. I'm always harping on the importance of protein in our diet and we need more of that than we think (especially women in the menopause transition.) We also need all the fiber and phytochemicals in plants. Today's recipe for Beet & Walnut Lentil Salad from Dishing up the Dirt, will provide you with heart healthy phytochemicals, fiber and fat all things we need to promote a long healthspan. People freak out about pulses (lentils and dried peas) and beans because of a phytochemical called lectins. Lectins are present in ALL PLANTS. Yep, it's true, every single plant we eat has lectins. Do you know what else? Lectins are denatured through cooking. Do dried beans, lentils, and some other food have more lectins that "fresh" food. Yep, they do, and they are removed by cooking. So, unless you're eating lots of uncooked beans and lentils you might have a problem. Um, if you're eating uncooked beans and lentils you have a bigger problem than lectins.
What's for Dinner?One thing is nearly universally true for us all, we need to eat MORE vegetables. Fruits and vegetables are a key component of a healthy diet and we don't eat nearly enough. I'm always harping on the importance of protein in our diet and we need more of that than we think (especially women in the menopause transition.) We also need all the fiber and phytochemicals in plants. Today's #foodiefriday recipe is from Splendid Table's Weeknight Kitchen recipe collection. These are recipes that taste good and are easy to make on a busy night. You can increase the protein content of this mujaddara, Moroccan cauliflower rice and lentil dish, by adding ground meat. I will use the ground goat chorizo from Farm 51. Farmer, County Commissioner and TSCF member Jennifer Boyer (J-Bo to us) has fantastic meat goats and I can buy Farm51 products locally at Daniel's Meat Shop. You can make this a true locavore meal by buying Montana lentils from Root Cellar Farms and have them delivered to your house! Click on the image below for the recipe for mujaddara with tzatziki from the Splendid Table. |
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