Power Eating [Paperback]

"The eating plans and recipes are perfect for men and women looking to maximize muscle gain and lose fat."

“Susan does a great job of using scientific research to clarify gray areas specific to athletes’ nutritional needs.”

“For building lean muscle naturally, Power Eating is your source for cutting-edge information on diet and supplements.”

This guide provides information on strength training nutrition. It includes detailed nutrition plans for the goals that strength trainers, bodybuilders and power sport athletes want to achieve: gaining muscle, cutting weight, maintaining weight, and tapering for competitions. The guide has been updated and expanded with new intake guidelines for supplements and herbs, diet plans for men and women, a new section on "designer waters", and more of Kleiner's popular recipes.

The history, the science, the content, and the audience
When I first started studying and working with bodybuilders and strength trainers 15 years ago, the majority of nutrition and exercise scientists belittled the work. They seemed to say, "Strength trainers, after all, were only a bunch of guys grunting in a gym. And bodybuilders were certainly not athletes since their competition was based on basically objective rather than subjective measures. And finally, as opposed to endurance exercise, there were no health benefits to building muscle."

But during those years as I worked out in the gyms with my subjects, it was clear to me that strength trainers and bodybuilders were most certainly athletes, as serious in their sport as any long distance runner or cyclist. And it in the research lab it became clear that there were definitely protective health effects of building muscle, which is now well recognized in all areas of health and exercise research.

The major problem for these athletes 15 years ago was that since there was no research information regarding their nutrition and little regarding their training, they were at the mercy of the supplement marketers and drug pushers and had to make it up as they went along. All the research was being done on endurance exercise.

But in the past 10 years, much has changed. Strength training and muscle building has found its place among exercise scientists, and it is a leading area of sports nutrition research. Cutting edge researchers are spurred with the possibilities of nutritional alternatives to anabolic steroids.

That is what I am bringing to you in POWER EATING. It is the culmination of 15 years of research and developing nutrition programs that work to build muscle, increase strength and energy, and lose fat. There are 4 diet phases based on the needs of the athletes: Maintenance, Building, Tapering, and Cutting. Timing of nutrients, supplements, and meal planning are all put together for each phase, finally taking you to contest.

But even if you're not a serious athlete, the POWER EATING plan can work for you, too. I have begun to use the POWER EATING program with everyone that I counsel. Not just athletes, but people that want to maintain their muscle, get toned, and lose fat. It takes muscle to burn fat. If that's your goal, then use the Tapering plan to design your diet, but since you probably don't work out to the level of a serious athlete, figure your calories based on the cutting diet.

Whatever your goals, remember that if you believe in yourself, you have the POWER to do anything!

Good Luck, and Good Eating

Dr. Susan Kleiner --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Susan M. Kleiner holds a PhD in nutrition and human performance from Case Western Reserve University and currently serves as a nutrition consultant to GNC and to the Seattle SuperSonics. She has consulted numerous other strength and bodybuilding athletes, including sports teams in the NFL and NBA. She serves on the advisory boards for Shape and Let’s Live Magazine/Physical, and she is the nutrition column editor for Athletic Therapy Today. She writes frequent columns and features for magazines ranging from Muscle & Fitness to Parenting.

A registered dietitian, Kleiner is a fellow in the American College of Nutrition, who honored her with a Young Investigator Award in 1987 for her work on the influence of diet and anabolic steroids on competitive male bodybuilders. She is an Associate Member of Sigma Xi, a scientific research society, and a member of the American College of Sports Medicine; the National Strength and Conditioning Association; the American Dietetic Association; and the Sport, Cardiovascular and Wellness Nutritionists.

A certified nutrition counselor, Maggie Greenwood-Robinson has authored or coauthored 17 books in the health and fitness field. She writes the Natural Dieter column for Let’s Live magazine and the Body Shop column for Christian Single. She is also a member of the advisory board for Physical magazine.

Greenwood-Robinson’s articles have appeared in Women’s Sports and Fitness, Working Woman, MuscleMag International, Ironman, Muscle and Fitness, Female Bodybuilding, and many other publications. She has conducted seminars on strength training, exercise motivation, diet and nutrition, fat loss, and couple’s fitness; she has also taught bodyshaping classes at the University of Southern Indiana.