Jennifer, it is very easy to go gluten free in the Zone, as long as you follow zone guidelines: veggies and fruit for carbs, lean protein, monounsaturated fat. Grains are usually the source of gluten, and one can easily avoid grain in the Zone.

I would only caution you to stay away from the Zone products, as the bars and cereal all contain gluten (unsure of the shakes, I don't use them).

thanks Sue and Cranberrycat! It seemed to me too that The Zone can be done gluten free. I just wasn't sure about the "unfavorable carbs" how often one should eat them, if at all. Sounds to me like you can avoid them and still get the nutrition and energy you need to stay active. thanks again!

You're welcome jennifer. There's no need to ever eat unfavorble carb, You'll have the best Zone results without them.

You're welcome! Yes, if you totally eat favorable, then you will not be eating any gluten (as long as you also stay away from the zone products).

There can be a little bit of debate over steel cut oats, as far as whether oats have gluten or not. It is not a wheat product, but it is assumed that oats could contain wheat gluten if processed in the same plant. So, it depends on your ability to tolerate gluten in your diet.

A tip, eating entirely Zone favorable while excluding Zone Products does not guarantee you'll be eating gluten free because gluten is hidden in many foods where you wouldn't expect it to be like medications, flavorings, soups, deli-meats, pountry, and soy sauce, to name a few. It's also found in other products that might touch your mouth and be ingested, such as lipstick and toothpaste. Here's a helpful article: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/gl...et/DG00063

Thanks for the article Sue! the link didn't work when I pasted it, but I believe I found the article.

gluten free zoner, here, also recently have become grainfree!!!! Lovin it!

You're welcome Jennifer!

The article address, huh... works for me when I copy and paste it (just in case any other readers here would like to look at it).

Zoners, just wanted to jump back in here. Thanks to Sue for pointing out other sources of gluten. That is very helpful to all who need to choose a gluten-free life.

I think that it needs to be stressed that following the Zone Diet in the way in which it was originally intended (fruits and veggies, lean protein, monounsaturated fat) will result in a gluten free diet; provided one also is aware of the other products that may contain gluten, which includes those things that Sue mentioned, and many of the Zone products.

Hey there, I'm a CrossFitter too! I go 3-4 times a week, plus I mountain bike 1-2 days a week - which will turn into 1-2 days of backcountry skiing soon (we have had a our first snow already!) I work and go to school part-time so I have very LITTLE spare time.

I consider myself a fit person already. However, 3 weeks into CF I noticed my pants were starting to fit better. Now 8 weeks into CF I am already down a pants size and they are getting baggy! I added the Zone the last month maybe, but I'm not super strict. One meal is usually a little off. My goal is strength and endurance, not weight loss. I can't wait to see what the 3rd month has in store for me, they say that's a big milestone as is 6 months.

Bruce what a difference in your photos!

I started CrossFit this summer. I am a D-3 track and field athlete and used CrossFit for my summer training. It was great to see that I was able to maintain a majority of the muscle I had built up during "in-season" lifting over the summer. I would do almost all my workouts at my home using the crossfit main-site as my workout source! I love it and will for sure continue with CF once my track career is over!

bewteen 5 and 6 times a week. My schedule alternates between the 3 days on 1 day off and the 5days on 2 days off. If i start with the 3 days on 1 day off but feel okay on the fourth day i just go, but i find it's usually not the case, especially not when the skin on your hands is torn!

4 days a week. I go monday thru friday, and will usually take one of those days off depending on my schedule.

Let me just start by saying I LOVE CROSSFIT. i work and worked out in a regular gym for 2 years before I started Crossfit a year ago. I had every personal trainer as a friend and trained with them 5-6 days. After 3 months of Crossfiting 4-5 day a week, I was 100% different body type, and could do thing I never would imagine (muscle ups) My first WOD was FRAN (my love lol) I did it in 12:37. 3 months later I was down to 6 and change, now I’m doing her in about 4 min.

I just started reading about the zone but I WOD 3-4 days a week depending on my classes and internship. As of now I’m a CROSSFIT coach at my facility and LOVE every minute of it. Noting beats the competitiveness and the unity of the family of XF.

Let me just start by saying I LOVE CROSSFIT. i work and worked out in a regular gym for 2 years before I started Crossfit a year ago. I had every personal trainer as a friend and trained with them 5-6 days. After 3 months of Crossfiting 4-5 day a week, I was 100% different body type, and could do thing I never would imagine (muscle ups) My first WOD was FRAN (my love lol) I did it in 12:37. 3 months later I was down to 6 and change, now I’m doing her in about 4 min.

I just started reading about the zone but I WOD 3-4 days a week depending on my classes and internship. As of now I’m a CROSSFIT coach at my facility and LOVE every minute of it. Noting beats the competitiveness and the unity of the family of XF.

sorry to ask but what is crossfitting exactly?
It seems it doesn't exist in Italy as I have never found a place to practise it. Is it something I can learn and do onmy own?

Hi Enza
Go to www.crossfit.com. There you will learn everything you need to about CrossFit. Yes, you can do it by yourself as the daily exercises are freely posted at this site every day. There is a CrossFit gym in Italy which offer Crossfit, CrossFit Milano, so I would assume there are others which are not affiliated and offer CrossFit.
You can also go to http://www.crossfitbrandx.com/index.php/forums which scales the workouts to differing levels of fitness and offers a ton of help for those who are learning.

And if you have any further questions don't doubt in asking them!

Diego

Hi Diego,
would you be so kind to tell me what I have to open in crossfit.com to see the workout? Is that I am not good at surfing in sites....
Thanks

Hi Enza:
Easy. The first thing you see is the Workout of the Day (WOD for short). For example today's is called Angie, and is composed of 100 Pull ups, Push ups, Sit ups and Squats. They post the new WOD everyday. Scroll down and you will see yesterday's, and the one before, etc. On the left are a series of links, one of them is Exercises & Demos. If you do not know how to do an exercise you will almost certainly find it there. The FAQ is also a good place to go as it will surely answer a lot of questions. The crossfit.com forums (http://www.board.crossfit.com/) will offer you even more help and advice on how to do the WODs. For scaling to your level of fitness BrandX (http://www.crossfitbrandx.com/index.php/forums) will provide additional help so you don't get lost. BrandX is the site I most visit and it should be yours also if you are starting from scratch.

Hope this helps you out. If not just give me another holler!

Diego

Hi,
well I saw yesterday's workout and I got it. For today, can you help? What are the three rounds 21-15 9 reps for time of? Thank you
As I am a thriatlete (well, I try to be) can I add cross fit to my daily workout? For example today I am going to run 'cause I am trainin for a competition next month. And, is there a warm up to do before crossfitting?
Thank you very much

21-15-9 means first you do 21 reps of thrusters, then move to 21 reps of pull ups, then return to thrusters (15 reps) then 15 reps of pull ups, and last but not least 9 reps of thrusters followed by 9 reps of pull ups. This is a tough WOD. You really should scale it because if you're not used to the intensity of CrossFit then it will be very tough, especially if you haven't done thrusters before. Your best move will be to go to the two forums I included in my previous post because you will get a ton more of advice there than I could ever hope to give you by myself. BTW, Fran should be done in approximately 5 minutes, so there is no resting at all from start to finish.
Regarding doing CF together with another activity, absolutely! It can be done as a standalone fitness program or to become stronger in your specific sport. And yes, there is a CF warm up. You can find it in the crossfit.com FAQ or you can make up your own. Mine is a hybrid between the "official" CF warm up and a joints warm up taken from a very well known CrossFitter.

Good luck!

Diego

Cranberrycat,
I've done Crossfit and I liked it, but I am not a fanatic about it. I am a fanatic about functional strength and conditioning. Basically, it's training on movements we perform in daily life, which is not what we get from a Nautilus machine. These movements are performed back to back in a circuit as fast as you can. With a few simple pieces of equipment you can do something like Crossfit at home. What you'll miss out on are the olympic lifts, which are integral to functional strength training. Thing is it's better to work with what you have than not at all. Now, watch for the flames! Some people will tell you that there is only Crossfit, and that everything else is crap. Not true. I train at an FS facility, and the programming is not too different, but there is more emphasis on multi-planar movement. I still walk/stumble out of there spent and drenched. I'm not saying that CF is bad, or that it doesn't work. I'm just saying that it's not the only thing.

OK, have at me.

FLAME FLAME FLAME!!! Just kidding
Daniel, I'm sure everyone who does crossfit at some moment in their lives tried the typical gym routine which got them nowhere, like me. There are many people who do CF who consider it is the be all end all of fitness programs, and maybe for them it is, but I agree that it is not the only thing. It is a great program, one that I live by right now, but the principles are easily transported to other disciplines and sports. Intensity. Progression. Diversity. Etc. I did Starting Strength before doing CF, against the advice of many trainers (why do something else to be better at CF?) and maybe they were right, but for me I found that it was good that I did it because it taught me a lot of things about lifting heavy weights. CF is also about functional movements. Granted, there are a lot that might not seem so but I'm sure you very well know they have to do with progressions for the Oly lifts or strengthening stabilizers.
On the CF forums you'll see a generalized voice claiming CF is the ultimate fitness program and everybody that trains outside of it is an idiot or a wimp, but that is just something that is endemic to all "movements" such as the different fitness programs and impossible to remove. It's better to only listen to the people who are open to other things than the ones who clamp their hands over their ears, close their eyes, and shake their heads while babbling loudly. The open people are not the fanatics, and these are the people who, IMO, really make a program worthy or not.

Diego

Hi,
the last one was my first week as a Crossfitter. I love it. Thanks for helping me at the beginning as I thought it was something different I couldn't get near to. As toaday is a rest day, it means I have to rest totally or i can train as I usually do for triathlon?

Hi Enza! Glad you like CF. Many people get hooked to the intensity and being wasted at the end of the WOD, or just the different types of exercises that are used. I love both, and learning new movements, like the Kipping pull up, olympic lifts, turkish get up, and more. Welcome aboard
Regarding resting, it all depends on you. If your body tells you you can do more do it. If not then rest. You get stronger during your rest days, not during the exercise sessions. Just remember to eat well to cover for your body's requirements. Don't overtrain, or else you'll be taking a few steps backwards, and we don't want that, do we?!

Diego