Christian Jax

I've always been a skinny kid and during this time I've had both active and sedentary periods throughout my childhood all the while eating what I wanted, when I wanted. Like many children, my metabolism was high and to date (in my 40s) still seems to be high. I have no doubt my genetic makeup has partial play in this. I still can eat what I want and gaining weight hasn't been an issue for me (yes I'm one of those people). My family is generally long and lean as is my father who is in his 60s. However there are still the odd member who is overweight at an obviously unhealthy level.

Since my teenage years to late 20s, I actively competed in the high intensity sport of pugilism. No doubt my training helped to keep my 6′ 1″ frame at a lean 165 pound fighter. However my first romance was still food, so much that I became an apprentice in the food industry, completed my culinary training at Niagara College in the spring of 1995 and wrote my ticket and worked as a chef in the fine dining area of the industry.

A career transition began in 1998, when I joined the Canadian Forces, where I continued to stay fit. About this time I retired from the competition of pugilism, turning to a mix of weight training and cardio, as a result I bulked up to about 185 pounds (at my height still healthy and lean). In 2008, I was introduced to the sport of CrossFit from some of my military co-workers. CrossFit gave me back that high intensity workout that I missed from my beloved pugilistic sport, I was hooked!

Moving ahead to 2011, I was given the chance to attend and thus completed my certification course of CrossFit Level 1 Trainers (CF-L1). The instructors were excellent, the course was well structured and informative and my level of knowledge had improved. However when we pushed on to the nutrition section (yes it's covered in their curriculum) what I thought I knew aboutGRAINS, was conflicting with their doctrine and irritated me to the point that I was in complete disagreement with this newly presented science of this bad carb that causes leaky gut, as I now believe.

Christian