Okay, I'll be the first to admit powerlifters have a reputation for eating shit, and being fine with it. Frankly, you can tell by the way many of them look. Regardless of how they eat, you still see the largest, most rotund, and STRONGEST lifters in all federations keep some principles of sports nutrition present in their daily lives. I'm going to make a short list of dietetic concepts and tips all lifters actively taking part in any serious program should do.



1. Eat protein every 3-4 hours. Protein is not stored for later use in muscular recovery, so you must eat it often to aid in healing.

2. Eat enough. I'm always dumbfound when people tell me how shitty they feel in the gym. Then I ask them what they ate prior, and they tell me nothing since the bagel for breakfast.

* to blend 1 and 2 together, a nice compromise would be to eat 3 LARGE, WELL ROUNDED meals each day, with a protein shake in between each of them.


3. Breakfast is a must. I don't care how you feel, whether you are "rushed" or don't have any cooking skills. Stop being a bitch, and eat when you wake up. If it means getting up 20 minutes earlier, or, god forbid, planning a meal ahead of time, just do it. An apple doesn't count either. We are talking about the biggest meal of the day. If you can't stomach it, then buy some chocolate milk and drink 3 glasses of it with some cereal.

4. Eat after you train. Similar to breakfast, your body needs food when you train. I don't see this as big of a problem, because the hormone trigger for hunger during training is much stronger than the one when you wake up... thus, more people go eat.

5. If you can't grow, eat more. I can't stand when people say they can't get bigger. I ask them what they eat, and I tell them I eat that 8 times each day... and I'm not a hardgainer. Some people just need the man the hell up, and start downing some serious calories.


That wasn't so bad was it? I'm not giving you macronutrient ratios, carb-timing, protein selection, and 3am meal BS. I'm giving you the info needed to get bigger, stronger and faster.

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Me Philosophies on Training:

-Extreme Training yields extreme results
-Just because you CAN, doesn't mean you should