Keto vs. High-Carb: Which is Better for CrossFit?
The Consistency Project
EC Synkowski
4.9 • 562 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
We're discussing the latest research on nutrition for CrossFitters and how it impacts performance.
You'll gain insights into the dietary habits and supplement usage of CrossFit athletes, including the effectiveness of high-carb versus keto diets.
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ABOUT THE SHOW
The Consistency Project aims to simplify nutrition, health, and well-being by breaking down the concepts and actions we can all take to live fuller, more functional lives.
ABOUT US
📍 EC Synkowski is a Certified Nutrition Specialist® (CNS), a Licensed-Dietitian Nutritionist (LDN), and Certified CrossFit Level 4 Coach (CF-L4). She's the founder of OptimizeMe Nutrition and the creator of the #800gChallenge®. Find her on social media.
📍 Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter, kid's book writer, and podcaster. Find him on social media.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Consistency Project podcast. I'm Patrick Cummings here with E.C. Sunkowski. |
| 0:05.0 | Each week, we simplify the principles and practices of nutrition, health, and fitness that will |
| 0:09.1 | help you perform better, feel better, and live better. Thank you so much for tuning into the show. |
| 0:14.5 | Hello, E.C., how are you? Good. What's going on with you? Oh, living the dream. |
| 0:23.7 | Living the dream. We're doing good. We're going to talk nutrition. We're going to talk nutrition. We're going to talk about specifically crossfitters nutrition. |
| 0:30.5 | Okay. You and I have been doing crossfits since approximately what, 1984? That's what it feels like when I was |
| 0:36.0 | January 1st, 2006. Good for you. We probably started right around the same time. And in the same place. I don't know if everybody knows that about us. So you and I met way back in the way back days the old CrossFit Boston when there was like four CrossFit gyms in the world. Correct. That's how long we've known each other. Correct. But we are going to talk about specifically some new stuff that's come out as it relates to |
| 0:56.1 | CrossFit and Nutrition or CrossFiters and Nutrition. |
| 0:59.1 | So let's maybe do a little bit of background and where this idea came from and why we're |
| 1:04.2 | talking about it now. |
| 1:05.7 | Yeah, I mean, I think we've hit on some of the stuff through various podcasts, of course, |
| 1:10.2 | but somebody sent me a recent article |
| 1:12.3 | that was looking at nutrition specific to CrossFit. It's this Martineau's study in the show |
| 1:17.2 | notes. And, you know, relatively speaking, CrossFit's a pretty new sports paradigm, even though |
| 1:23.3 | you and I have been doing it for quite some time, that they're really, especially in the early |
| 1:28.5 | years, those 2006, 2010, there really wasn't any research on it. And now there actually is |
| 1:34.5 | some research directly on CrossFit, which is pretty cool. So this is an article that was |
| 1:38.6 | released in June, and it's kind of summarizing the findings from all of these CrossFit specific studies. |
| 1:45.7 | Now, I'll let the cat out of the bag now. |
| 1:48.1 | I think still more research needs to be done to conclusively say a lot of things that I think |
| 1:52.8 | people want to hear. |
| 1:53.9 | But I thought it would be kind of cool to review the state of the evidence, the state of the |
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