One of the original articles written in CrossFit, “What is Fitness,” describes health as controlling our lives through diet and exercise to manage our health markers. Health markers can be anything from cholesterol levels to bone density, and your exercise program needs to be improving all of these. CrossFit’s fitness goals are to increase work capacity across broad time and modal domains. This is fancy wording for if you run a mile today in 12 minutes and lifted 100 pounds tomorrow, your exercise program should improve both of those simultaneously. If you continue to improve your mile time and the weight you are lifting, you are more than likely bettering your health markers. CrossFit’s exercise program does it all and is the foundation of what we do, but something we do not talk about enough is how CrossFit views nutrition. Most CrossFit gyms, ours certainly does, have an unconventional thought...