CrossFit is one of the hardest athletic endeavors you can take on. It combines a little bit of everything and ramps up the intensity to 11.
With such a challenging exercise routine, your dietary needs are extremely demanding, and you might be wondering, “Can protein cookie dough improve CrossFit performance and wellness despite the intensity of my lifestyle?”
Spoiler alert: it can. In fact, protein cookie dough and CrossFit go together perfectly, and this snack can be a great addition to your routine.
What Protein Cookie Dough Is
Understanding what protein cookie dough is will make it clearer why we’re recommending such a treat to someone with such demanding dietary needs.
Well, FUUL cookie dough is not traditional cookie dough. It tastes like it, and it has the same consistency, but it’s not the junk food that you’re probably thinking of.
Instead, it’s a delicious dough made to tackle your three core needs.
1. The Protein System for Muscle Growth and Repair
The most significant (and most obvious) benefit of FUUL protein cookie dough is its protein content.
FUUL uses a blend of whey protein isolate and milk protein isolate to provide you with 15g of protein per serving. And these are complete proteins. It means you get all 9 of the core amino acids your body needs to properly function.
If you look at a lot of other protein snacks for CrossFit, you’ll see they use protein concentrates that simply aren’t as good. Or, they use incomplete proteins, from sources like beans, to cut corners.
With protein cookie dough, you’re getting the best of the best.
2. Energy
Protein is the main draw of protein cookie dough, but it’s not the only thing you’re getting.
You get short-term energy bursts and hormone-balancing benefits from 36g of carbohydrates. When most people hear about carbs, they panic a little bit. If you’re into CrossFit, we assume you know just how crucial carbs are to get through a workout and keep your body in good shape. These carbs give you a great short-term energy boost; plus, they provide benefits for digestion, hormones, etc.
However, FUUL cookie dough also gives you 8g of fat from good sources that are easy to digest. That’s a more long-term energy solution, but we do keep the fat minimized to prevent negative effects - protein cookie dough won’t make you gain weight or throw off your delicately balanced BMI.
3. Flavor
There is no reason for your CrossFit goals to make your relationship with food miserable. You deserve to enjoy what you eat, and we don’t think those chalk-like protein bars cut it.
FUUL protein cookie dough bites contain 6g of sugar. Since you’re doing CrossFit, you’re going to burn that off quickly, and 6g isn’t enough to cause any crashes or other negative side effects.
Instead, you just get a little bit of pep in your step that burns off quickly, and it makes our protein cookie dough taste like the traditional stuff you’re used to.
Of course, this is backed up by delicious added flavors to give you the real cookie-dough experience.
This isn’t just a neat bonus, either. Eating something that tastes good, especially when you’re probably on a very strict diet, gives you a dopamine boost that can help you achieve your goals.
How Protein Cookie Dough Fits into the CrossFit Lifestyle
The relationship between protein cookie dough and CrossFit is complex and beneficial in many ways. This healthy snack represents different things for different people.
For bodybuilders, it’s a replacement for having to constantly waste time cooking raw, protein-rich foods. For dieters, it’s a meal replacement option or a safe way to snack without ruining their diet plans. Even business professionals use it to skip lunch without struggling to get through the day.
For CrossFit athletes, it’s a little bit of everything.
When you’re under very strict dietary restrictions, you need every food you consume to be actively working toward your intense goals. Protein cookie dough does that in several ways.
1. Meeting Protein Requirements
It is difficult to get enough protein to keep up with a high-intensity workout routine like CrossFit. Protein triggers your fullness hormone and actively stops you from wanting to eat.
So, it’s often necessary to squeeze in extra protein throughout the day. Protein cookie dough makes that easy by giving you 15g of complete protein per serving. If you get 30g in the morning from eggs, 100g from a chicken breast at lunch, and at dinner, and drink a 20g shake, you’re still not getting the extreme amount you need, and you’re consuming tons of food.
The 15g of protein from FUUL is enough to round off your protein needs with just one or two easy-to-eat snacks throughout the day.
2. Convenience
CrossFit is one of the hardest fitness routines to get into. Because you’re trying to train everything, your workout schedule will usually be more packed than a schedule of someone who needs to train 4–5 movements to build muscle each day.
That makes it even harder to get enough protein, because you don’t have the time to fit extra meals into your schedule.
With protein cookie dough, you don’t need to mix up a protein shake, cook meat, or spend hours every Sunday meal prepping protein snacks for CrossFit. Individual servings are packaged for you to grab a bag, crack it open, and eat a few handfuls of delicious cookie dough.
3. Post-Workout Recovery
You push yourself really hard during CrossFit training sessions, and it’s probably hard to find the energy to handle all your everyday tasks afterward.
Protein cookie dough is the perfect quick snack after a training session to repair your body AND give you the energy you need to go about your day.
4. Low Calorie and Zero Crash
Protein cookie dough only has 270 calories. For a dieter, it’s important to factor that into a daily routine, but for you, that’s basically nothing. You burn that off just warming up.
Also, with only 6g of sugar, you don’t have to worry about a sugar crash making you tap out mid-workout.
You get all the benefits with zero drawbacks.
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FUUL is the best way to add a tasty protein snack to your CrossFit routine without sacrificing your macros or throwing off your schedule.
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