[LIVE] Cutting Through the Noise on Nutrition (EP. 037)
The CrossFit Podcast
CrossFit LLC
4.3 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Nutrition is one of the most debated topics in health and fitness — and it’s central to CrossFit’s methodology.
In this livestream, host James Hobart sits down with Jocelyn Rylee, Joe Alexander, and Jenn Pishko to talk nutrition. The conversation tackles CrossFit’s nutrition principles, how they apply in real life, and what the science actually says.
With so many competing voices in the space, we cut through the noise to address strategies for everyday CrossFit athletes, elite athletes, and those battling chronic disease. Expect honest discussion on food quality vs. quantity, calories in vs. calories out, the 80/20 rule, food addiction, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Refined carbohydrates can increase performance in the short term. |
| 0:02.1 | So can lots of things, so can stimulants, so can PEDs. |
| 0:04.9 | Like any of those things that you're like, it would make me perform better right now, but it's gonna hurt me in the long run. There's lots of different ways that you can potentially take out the refined white sugars and leverage more whole food approaches to it. I'm gonna do the real deal. I'm gonna do it infrequently, and I'm going to enjoy the heck out of it, and that's it. |
| 0:21.1 | The continuum of white sugar And that's it. |
| 0:20.9 | The continuum of white sugar versus artificial sweetener versus maple syrup and honey and things like that. |
| 0:27.8 | What's the sliding scale? |
| 0:35.3 | Hey, welcome back to the CrossFit podcast. I am your host with the most and the grossest stories, |
| 0:41.7 | James Hobart today, talking about, what do we call it, cutting through the noise with nutrition. |
| 0:46.7 | We're going to cover topics ranging from how to make a great bowl of ramen to eating for |
| 0:51.6 | performance, nutrient timing, and how to survive your first muck bang and |
| 0:56.5 | everything in between. I'm joined by an awesome group of guests here today to chat about nutrition, |
| 1:02.3 | CrossFit stance on it, and how this changed through the years or has it. And we'll just kick it off |
| 1:07.4 | with Joe. Tell us a little bit about yourself. I feel like I'm |
| 1:10.8 | less caffeinated than you are at this point. I'll come out right out of the gate with that. |
| 1:14.7 | Joe Alexander, privileged to be here. Started with seminar staff back in 08 with a member of a team |
| 1:20.6 | and as a member of the team. And now I have the privilege to be able to support and manage that |
| 1:26.2 | team besides some awesome people in the space. And I'm just happy to be able to support and manage that team besides some awesome people in the in the space. |
| 1:30.1 | And I'm just happy to be here and contribute. |
| 1:33.3 | It's great to have you. |
| 1:34.6 | Thank you. |
| 1:35.2 | A mentor of mine. |
| 1:37.4 | Great stories there. |
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