The following is a an excerpt from the original "What is Fitness" article posted in the CrossFit Journal about the role of nutrition in athletic performance and overall health and well being. Notice in the graphic for the Heirarchy of Development that nutrition is at the base or foundation of the other developmental aspects of fitness and performance.
"Nutrition plays a critical role in your fitness. Proper nutrition can amplify or diminish the effect of your training efforts.
A theoretical hierarchy exists for the development of an athlete. It starts with nutrition and moves to metabolic conditioning, gymnastics, weightlifting, and finally sport. This hierarchy largely reflects foundational dependence, skill, and to some degree, time ordering of development. The logical flow is from molecular foundations, cardiovascular sufficiency, body control, external object control, and ultimately mastery and application. This model has greatest utility in analyzing athletes’ shortcomings or difficulties."
In other words if you have been working really hard on the top 4 sections of the Heirarchial pyramid but you are not getting the results you want in either body composition or performance then you need to get a handle on your nutrition. Go here for an overview of CrossFit's approach to nutrition.
From Crossfit Carbondale's website
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