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Anyone who has spent enough time walking the aisles of a grocery store can find proof of a current dietary obsession: protein. From cereals enriched with the macronutrient to candy bars advertising it, its popularity seems to have peaked.

But Canadian CrossFit athlete Jack Farlow is focused on a macronutrient our protein-obsessed culture seems to have at best, ignored, and at worst, villainized: the carbohydrate.

“The training I do is high intensity, so carbohydrates are very important for me,” says Farlow, who is also a biomedical engineering student at the University of Waterloo.

On Aug. 29, Farlow will be competing in the World Fitness Project, a global competition series that tests athletes over a period of months on standard CrossFit movements including muscle-u

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