What about the Zone Diet?

Were you thinking about starting the Zone diet?  Didn’t know where to start or have no understanding of what a block is?  Well here are some great links to sites and documents that we have found very useful.  We also have a couple of  Zone books at the Box if you want to borrow and do some more reading…let us know what you think and if you have any tricks or sites that you frequent!

General Zone Diet Information

Enter the Zone Diet Gives you general information about Zone.

The Zone Diet ExplainedFrom CrossFit Impulse, this post gives you an easy to understand outline of what Zone is and how it works.

How many Block s do I get to eat each day?

Body Fat Calculator This is an excellent tool that calculates how many blocks you should use per day.

Zone Friendly Meals

Zone Diet – Block CalculatorFrom Nathan Andreu on the CrossFit Message Board.  This is a fantastic tool to help map out your meals, it makes blocks easy!  Make sure you have macros enabled in Excel for this to work properly.  All instructions are listed on the first tab of the spreadsheet.

Zone Meal Plans From the CrossFit Journal, this PDF gives you an overview of the Zone diet along with lots of meal suggestions.

Zone Perfect Cookbook From our lovely friends at Google, a FREE online version of the actual book so you don’t have to go buy it!  Lots of Recipes!

Tracking Your Food, Exercise and Progress

Fit Day Is an online journal to keep track of your food intake and exercise.

Live Strong Lots of online tools for tracking your food and exercise.

WithFitLog and track all of your CrossFit WODs!  Although you should be doing that in your journals already!